@article{Cara_Orrù_2023, title={The Emergency-Urgency Network of Hand Surgery in Italy}, volume={37}, url={https://www.loscalpellojournal.com/article/view/280}, DOI={10.36149/0390-5276-280}, abstractNote={<p>This topic has been discussed on various occasions in the last 50 years and was first the subject of the European Consensus Conference (Modena, March 1999) organized by the SICM (Italian Society of Hand Surgery), SIM (Italian Society of Microsurgery) and FESUM (European Federation of Hand Emergency Services) 1, with the patronage of FESSH (European Federation of Hand Surgery Societies) and subsequently of the State Regions Conference in Italy (Gazzetta Ufficiale No. 285 of 07/12/2001) who formalized the requirements of the emergency and trauma network of hand surgery in Italy. On 27 November 2018, a Ministerial Working Table was established to organize the network. In the last 4 years, the SICM has taken part in this working table, based on the re-elaboration of what was already stated and approved in the 1999 European Consensus Conference and in the 2001 State Regions Conference. This work resulted in a “Programmatic Document for paths of the Emergency- Urgency network in Hand Surgery”. The draft agreement of the Emergency-Urgency paths for Hand Surgery was approved on 23/02/2022 (Regioni.it 4242 - 23/02/2022) 2 and states that the system will be implemented through the integration of “high specialized complexity” and “low specialized complexity” centers, according to the HUB &amp; SPOKE model.</p&gt;}, number={1}, journal={Lo Scalpello - Journal}, author={Cara, Luciano and Orrù, Marta}, year={2023}, month={Apr.}, pages={20-25} }