The management of surgical patients in the emergency setting during COVID-19 pandemic: the WSES position paper

by Belinda De Simone, Elie Chouillard, Massimo Sartelli, Walter L. Biffl, Salomone Di Saverio, Ernest E. Moore, Yoram Kluger, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Luca Ansaloni, Federico Coccolini, Ari Leppänemi, Andrew B. Peitzmann, Leonardo Pagani, Gustavo P. Fraga, Ciro Paolillo, Edoardo Picetti, Massimo Valentino, Emmanouil Pikoulis, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Fausto Catena
Published 2021-03-01

Ethical considerations in conducting surgical research in severe complicated intra-abdominal sepsis

by Christopher J. Doig, Stacey A Page, Jessica L. McKee, Ernest E. Moore, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Rosemary Carroll, John C. Marshall, Peter D Faris, Matti Tolonen, Fausto Catena, Federico Coccolini, Massimo Sartelli, Luca Ansaloni, Sam F. Minor, Bruno M. Peirera, Jose J Diaz, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, the Closed Or Open after Laparotomy (COOL) after Source Control for Severe Complicated Intra-Abdominal Sepsis Investigators
Published 2019-08-01

Correction to: Ethical considerations in conducting surgical research in severe complicated intra-abdominal sepsis

by Christopher J. Doig, Stacey A. Page, Jessica L. McKee, Ernest E. Moore, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Rosemary Carroll, John C. Marshall, Peter D. Faris, Matti Tolonen, Fausto Catena, Federico Coccolini, Massimo Sartelli, Luca Ansaloni, Sam F. Minor, Bruno M. Peirera, Jose J. Diaz, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Closed Or Open after Laparotomy (COOL) after Source Control for Severe Complicated Intra-Abdominal Sepsis Investigators
Published 2019-10-01

Intraoperative surgical site infection control and prevention: a position paper and future addendum to WSES intra-abdominal infections guidelines

by Belinda De Simone, Massimo Sartelli, Federico Coccolini, Chad G. Ball, Pietro Brambillasca, Massimo Chiarugi, Fabio Cesare Campanile, Gabriela Nita, Davide Corbella, Ari Leppaniemi, Elena Boschini, Ernest E. Moore, Walter Biffl, Andrew Peitzmann, Yoram Kluger, Michael Sugrue, Gustavo Fraga, Salomone Di Saverio, Dieter Weber, Boris Sakakushev, Osvaldo Chiara, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Richard ten Broek, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Imtiaz Wani, Raul Coimbra, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Micheal D. Kelly, Luca Ansaloni, Fausto Catena
Published 2020-02-01

Correction to: Intraoperative surgical site infection control and prevention: a position paper and future addendum to WSES intra-abdominal infections guidelines

by Belinda De Simone, Massimo Sartelli, Federico Coccolini, Chad G. Ball, Pietro Brambillasca, Massimo Chiarugi, Fabio Cesare Campanile, Gabriela Nita, Davide Corbella, Ari Leppaniemi, Elena Boschini, Ernest E. Moore, Walter Biffl, Andrew Peitzmann, Yoram Kluger, Michael Sugrue, Gustavo Fraga, Salomone Di Saverio, Dieter Weber, Boris Sakakushev, Osvaldo Chiara, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Richard ten Broek, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Imtiaz Wani, Raul Coimbra, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Micheal D. Kelly, Luca Ansaloni, Fausto Catena
Published 2021-04-01

Perforated and bleeding peptic ulcer: WSES guidelines

by Antonio Tarasconi, Federico Coccolini, Walter L. Biffl, Matteo Tomasoni, Luca Ansaloni, Edoardo Picetti, Sarah Molfino, Vishal Shelat, Stefania Cimbanassi, Dieter G. Weber, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Fabio C. Campanile, Salomone Di Saverio, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Claudio Casella, Michael D. Kelly, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Ari Leppaniemi, Ernest E. Moore, Andrew Peitzman, Gustavo Pereira Fraga, Marco Ceresoli, Ronald V. Maier, Imtaz Wani, Vittoria Pattonieri, Gennaro Perrone, George Velmahos, Michael Sugrue, Massimo Sartelli, Yoram Kluger, Fausto Catena
Published 2020-01-01

Management of intra-abdominal-infections: 2017 World Society of Emergency Surgery guidelines summary focused on remote areas and low-income nations

by Gennaro Perrone, Massimo Sartelli, Giuffrida Mario, Alain Chichom-Mefire, Francesco Maria Labricciosa, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Luca Ansaloni, Walter L. Biffl, Marco Ceresoli, Federico Coccolini, Raul Coimbra, Zaza Demetrashvili, Salomone Di Saverio, Gustavo Pereira Fraga, Vladimir Khokha, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Yoram Kluger, Ari Leppaniemi, Ronald V. Maier, Ernest Eugene Moore, Ionut Negoi, Carlos A. Ordonez, Boris Sakakushev, Helmut A. Segovia Lohse, George C. Velmahos, Imtaz Wani, Dieter G. Weber, Elena Bonati, Fausto Catena
Published 2020-10-01

Hey surgeons! It is time to lead and be a champion in preventing and managing surgical infections!

by Massimo Sartelli, Federico Coccolini, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Luca Ansaloni, Stefano Bartoli, Walter Biffl, Felice Borghi, Elie Chouillard, Yunfeng Cui, Rafael De Oliveira Nascimento, Belinda De Simone, Salomone Di Saverio, Therese Duane, Christian Eckmann, Hani O. Eid, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Felipe Couto Gomes, Andreas Hecker, Birgit Hecker, Arda Isik, Kamal M. F. Itani, Ari Leppaniemi, Andrey Litvin, Davide Luppi, Ronald Maier, Ramiro Manzano-Nunez, Sanjay Marwah, John Mazuski, Ernest Moore, Gennaro Perrone, Kemal Rasa, Ines Rubio, Robert Sawyer, Francesco M. Labricciosa, Fausto Catena
Published 2020-04-01

Liver trauma: WSES 2020 guidelines

by Federico Coccolini, Raul Coimbra, Carlos Ordonez, Yoram Kluger, Felipe Vega, Ernest E. Moore, Walt Biffl, Andrew Peitzman, Tal Horer, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Massimo Sartelli, Gustavo P. Fraga, Enrico Cicuttin, Luca Ansaloni, Michael W. Parra, Mauricio Millán, Nicola DeAngelis, Kenji Inaba, George Velmahos, Ron Maier, Vladimir Khokha, Boris Sakakushev, Goran Augustin, Salomone di Saverio, Emanuil Pikoulis, Mircea Chirica, Viktor Reva, Ari Leppaniemi, Vassil Manchev, Massimo Chiarugi, Dimitrios Damaskos, Dieter Weber, Neil Parry, Zaza Demetrashvili, Ian Civil, Lena Napolitano, Davide Corbella, Fausto Catena, the WSES expert panel
Published 2020-03-01

Management of intra-abdominal infections: recommendations by the WSES 2016 consensus conference

by Massimo Sartelli, Fausto Catena, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Luca Ansaloni, Walter L. Biffl, Marja A. Boermeester, Marco Ceresoli, Osvaldo Chiara, Federico Coccolini, Jan J. De Waele, Salomone Di Saverio, Christian Eckmann, Gustavo P. Fraga, Maddalena Giannella, Massimo Girardis, Ewen A. Griffiths, Jeffry Kashuk, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Vladimir Khokha, Yoram Kluger, Francesco M. Labricciosa, Ari Leppaniemi, Ronald V. Maier, Addison K. May, Mark Malangoni, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, John Mazuski, Philippe Montravers, Andrew Peitzman, Bruno M. Pereira, Tarcisio Reis, Boris Sakakushev, Gabriele Sganga, Kjetil Soreide, Michael Sugrue, Jan Ulrych, Jean-Louis Vincent, Pierluigi Viale, Ernest E. Moore
Published 2017-05-01

2018 WSES/SIS-E consensus conference: recommendations for the management of skin and soft-tissue infections

by Massimo Sartelli, Xavier Guirao, Timothy C. Hardcastle, Yoram Kluger, Marja. A. Boermeester, Kemal Raşa, Luca Ansaloni, Federico Coccolini, Philippe Montravers, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Michele Bartoletti, Matteo Bassetti, Offir Ben-Ishay, Walter L. Biffl, Osvaldo Chiara, Massimo Chiarugi, Raul Coimbra, Francesco Giuseppe De Rosa, Belinda De Simone, Salomone Di Saverio, Maddalena Giannella, George Gkiokas, Vladimir Khokha, Francesco M. Labricciosa, Ari Leppäniemi, Andrey Litvin, Ernest E. Moore, Ionut Negoi, Leonardo Pagani, Maddalena Peghin, Edoardo Picetti, Tadeja Pintar, Guntars Pupelis, Ines Rubio-Perez, Boris Sakakushev, Helmut Segovia-Lohse, Gabriele Sganga, Vishal Shelat, Michael Sugrue, Antonio Tarasconi, Cristian Tranà, Jan Ulrych, Pierluigi Viale, Fausto Catena
Published 2018-12-01

Bologna guidelines for diagnosis and management of adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO): 2017 update of the evidence-based guidelines from the world society of emergency surgery...

by Richard P. G. ten Broek, Pepijn Krielen, Salomone Di Saverio, Federico Coccolini, Walter L. Biffl, Luca Ansaloni, George C. Velmahos, Massimo Sartelli, Gustavo P. Fraga, Michael D. Kelly, Frederick A. Moore, Andrew B. Peitzman, Ari Leppaniemi, Ernest E. Moore, Johannes Jeekel, Yoram Kluger, Michael Sugrue, Zsolt J. Balogh, Cino Bendinelli, Ian Civil, Raul Coimbra, Mark De Moya, Paula Ferrada, Kenji Inaba, Rao Ivatury, Rifat Latifi, Jeffry L. Kashuk, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Ron Maier, Sandro Rizoli, Boris Sakakushev, Thomas Scalea, Kjetil Søreide, Dieter Weber, Imtiaz Wani, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Nicola De’Angelis, Frank Piscioneri, Joseph M. Galante, Fausto Catena, Harry van Goor
Published 2018-06-01

The role of open abdomen in non-trauma patient: WSES Consensus Paper

by Federico Coccolini, Giulia Montori, Marco Ceresoli, Fausto Catena, Ernest E. Moore, Rao Ivatury, Walter Biffl, Andrew Peitzman, Raul Coimbra, Sandro Rizoli, Yoram Kluger, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Massimo Sartelli, Marc De Moya, George Velmahos, Gustavo Pereira Fraga, Bruno M. Pereira, Ari Leppaniemi, Marja A. Boermeester, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Ron Maier, Miklosh Bala, Boris Sakakushev, Vladimir Khokha, Manu Malbrain, Vanni Agnoletti, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Michael Sugrue, Salomone Di Saverio, Ewen Griffiths, Kjetil Soreide, John E. Mazuski, Addison K. May, Philippe Montravers, Rita Maria Melotti, Michele Pisano, Francesco Salvetti, Gianmariano Marchesi, Tino M. Valetti, Thomas Scalea, Osvaldo Chiara, Jeffry L. Kashuk, Luca Ansaloni
Published 2017-08-01

WSES consensus conference guidelines: monitoring and management of severe adult traumatic brain injury patients with polytrauma in the first 24 hours

by Edoardo Picetti, Sandra Rossi, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Luca Ansaloni, Rocco Armonda, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Miklosh Bala, Zsolt J. Balogh, Maurizio Berardino, Walter L. Biffl, Pierre Bouzat, Andras Buki, Marco Ceresoli, Randall M. Chesnut, Osvaldo Chiara, Giuseppe Citerio, Federico Coccolini, Raul Coimbra, Salomone Di Saverio, Gustavo P. Fraga, Deepak Gupta, Raimund Helbok, Peter J. Hutchinson, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Takahiro Kinoshita, Yoram Kluger, Ari Leppaniemi, Andrew I. R. Maas, Ronald V. Maier, Francesco Minardi, Ernest E. Moore, John A. Myburgh, David O. Okonkwo, Yasuhiro Otomo, Sandro Rizoli, Andres M. Rubiano, Juan Sahuquillo, Massimo Sartelli, Thomas M. Scalea, Franco Servadei, Philip F. Stahel, Nino Stocchetti, Fabio S. Taccone, Tommaso Tonetti, George Velmahos, Dieter Weber, Fausto Catena
Published 2019-11-01

Closed Or Open after Source Control Laparotomy for Severe Complicated Intra-Abdominal Sepsis (the COOL trial): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

by Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Federico Coccolini, Luca Ansaloni, Derek J. Roberts, Matti Tolonen, Jessica L. McKee, Ari Leppaniemi, Peter Faris, Christopher J. Doig, Fausto Catena, Timothy Fabian, Craig N. Jenne, Osvaldo Chiara, Paul Kubes, Braden Manns, Yoram Kluger, Gustavo P. Fraga, Bruno M. Pereira, Jose J. Diaz, Michael Sugrue, Ernest E. Moore, Jianan Ren, Chad G. Ball, Raul Coimbra, Zsolt J. Balogh, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Elijah Dixon, Walter Biffl, Anthony MacLean, Ian Ball, John Drover, Paul B. McBeth, Juan G. Posadas-Calleja, Neil G. Parry, Salomone Di Saverio, Carlos A. Ordonez, Jimmy Xiao, Massimo Sartelli, for The Closed Or Open after Laparotomy (COOL) after Source Control for Severe Complicated Intra-Abdominal Sepsis Investigators
Published 2018-06-01

2017 WSES guidelines on colon and rectal cancer emergencies: obstruction and perforation

by Michele Pisano, Luigi Zorcolo, Cecilia Merli, Stefania Cimbanassi, Elia Poiasina, Marco Ceresoli, Ferdinando Agresta, Niccolò Allievi, Giovanni Bellanova, Federico Coccolini, Claudio Coy, Paola Fugazzola, Carlos Augusto Martinez, Giulia Montori, Ciro Paolillo, Thiago Josè Penachim, Bruno Pereira, Tarcisio Reis, Angelo Restivo, Joao Rezende-Neto, Massimo Sartelli, Massimo Valentino, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Itamar Ashkenazi, Miklosh Bala, Osvaldo Chiara, Nicola de’ Angelis, Simona Deidda, Belinda De Simone, Salomone Di Saverio, Elena Finotti, Inaba Kenji, Ernest Moore, Steven Wexner, Walter Biffl, Raul Coimbra, Angelo Guttadauro, Ari Leppäniemi, Ron Maier, Stefano Magnone, Alain Chicom Mefire, Andrew Peitzmann, Boris Sakakushev, Michael Sugrue, Pierluigi Viale, Dieter Weber, Jeffry Kashuk, Gustavo P. Fraga, Ioran Kluger, Fausto Catena, Luca Ansaloni
Published 2018-08-01

Knowledge, awareness, and attitude towards infection prevention and management among surgeons: identifying the surgeon champion

by Massimo Sartelli, Yoram Kluger, Luca Ansaloni, Federico Coccolini, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Timothy C. Hardcastle, Ernest E. Moore, Addison K. May, Kamal M. F. Itani, Donald E. Fry, Marja A. Boermeester, Xavier Guirao, Lena Napolitano, Robert G. Sawyer, Kemal Rasa, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Abdulrashid K. Adesunkanmi, Boyko Atanasov, Goran Augustin, Miklosh Bala, Miguel A. Cainzos, Alain Chichom-Mefire, Francesco Cortese, Dimitris Damaskos, Samir Delibegovic, Zaza Demetrashvili, Belinda De Simone, Therese M. Duane, Wagih Ghnnam, George Gkiokas, Carlos A. Gomes, Andreas Hecker, Aleksandar Karamarkovic, Jakub Kenig, Vladimir Khokha, Victor Kong, Arda Isik, Ari Leppäniemi, Andrey Litvin, Eftychios Lostoridis, Gustavo M. Machain, Sanjay Marwah, Michael McFarlane, Cristian Mesina, Ionut Negoi, Iyiade Olaoye, Tadeja Pintar, Guntars Pupelis, Miran Rems, Ines Rubio-Perez, Boris Sakakushev, Helmut Segovia-Lohse, Boonying Siribumrungwong, Peep Talving, Jan Ulrych, András G. Vereczkei, Francesco M. Labricciosa, Fausto Catena
Published 2018-08-01

The management of intra-abdominal infections from a global perspective: 2017 WSES guidelines for management of intra-abdominal infections

by Massimo Sartelli, Alain Chichom-Mefire, Francesco M. Labricciosa, Timothy Hardcastle, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Abdulrashid K. Adesunkanmi, Luca Ansaloni, Miklosh Bala, Zsolt J. Balogh, Marcelo A. Beltrán, Offir Ben-Ishay, Walter L. Biffl, Arianna Birindelli, Miguel A. Cainzos, Gianbattista Catalini, Marco Ceresoli, Asri Che Jusoh, Osvaldo Chiara, Federico Coccolini, Raul Coimbra, Francesco Cortese, Zaza Demetrashvili, Salomone Di Saverio, Jose J. Diaz, Valery N. Egiev, Paula Ferrada, Gustavo P. Fraga, Wagih M. Ghnnam, Jae Gil Lee, Carlos A. Gomes, Andreas Hecker, Torsten Herzog, Jae Il Kim, Kenji Inaba, Arda Isik, Aleksandar Karamarkovic, Jeffry Kashuk, Vladimir Khokha, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Yoram Kluger, Kaoru Koike, Victor Y. Kong, Ari Leppaniemi, Gustavo M. Machain, Ronald V. Maier, Sanjay Marwah, Michael E. McFarlane, Giulia Montori, Ernest E. Moore, Ionut Negoi, Iyiade Olaoye, Abdelkarim H. Omari, Carlos A. Ordonez, Bruno M. Pereira, Gerson A. Pereira Júnior, Guntars Pupelis, Tarcisio Reis, Boris Sakakushev, Norio Sato, Helmut A. Segovia Lohse, Vishal G. Shelat, Kjetil Søreide, Waldemar Uhl, Jan Ulrych, Harry Van Goor, George C. Velmahos, Kuo-Ching Yuan, Imtiaz Wani, Dieter G. Weber, Sanoop K. Zachariah, Fausto Catena
Published 2017-07-01

The open abdomen in trauma and non-trauma patients: WSES guidelines

by Federico Coccolini, Derek Roberts, Luca Ansaloni, Rao Ivatury, Emiliano Gamberini, Yoram Kluger, Ernest E. Moore, Raul Coimbra, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Bruno M. Pereira, Giulia Montori, Marco Ceresoli, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Massimo Sartelli, George Velmahos, Gustavo Pereira Fraga, Ari Leppaniemi, Matti Tolonen, Joseph Galante, Tarek Razek, Ron Maier, Miklosh Bala, Boris Sakakushev, Vladimir Khokha, Manu Malbrain, Vanni Agnoletti, Andrew Peitzman, Zaza Demetrashvili, Michael Sugrue, Salomone Di Saverio, Ingo Martzi, Kjetil Soreide, Walter Biffl, Paula Ferrada, Neil Parry, Philippe Montravers, Rita Maria Melotti, Francesco Salvetti, Tino M. Valetti, Thomas Scalea, Osvaldo Chiara, Stefania Cimbanassi, Jeffry L. Kashuk, Martha Larrea, Juan Alberto Martinez Hernandez, Heng-Fu Lin, Mircea Chirica, Catherine Arvieux, Camilla Bing, Tal Horer, Belinda De Simone, Peter Masiakos, Viktor Reva, Nicola DeAngelis, Kaoru Kike, Zsolt J. Balogh, Paola Fugazzola, Matteo Tomasoni, Rifat Latifi, Noel Naidoo, Dieter Weber, Lauri Handolin, Kenji Inaba, Andreas Hecker, Yuan Kuo-Ching, Carlos A. Ordoñez, Sandro Rizoli, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Marc De Moya, Imtiaz Wani, Alain Chichom Mefire, Ken Boffard, Lena Napolitano, Fausto Catena
Published 2018-02-01

2019 update of the WSES guidelines for management of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infection in surgical patients

by Massimo Sartelli, Stefano Di Bella, Lynne V. McFarland, Sahil Khanna, Luis Furuya-Kanamori, Nadir Abuzeid, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Luca Ansaloni, Goran Augustin, Miklosh Bala, Offir Ben-Ishay, Walter L. Biffl, Stephen M. Brecher, Adrián Camacho-Ortiz, Miguel A. Caínzos, Shirley Chan, Jill R. Cherry-Bukowiec, Jesse Clanton, Federico Coccolini, Maria E. Cocuz, Raul Coimbra, Francesco Cortese, Yunfeng Cui, Jacek Czepiel, Zaza Demetrashvili, Isidoro Di Carlo, Salomone Di Saverio, Irina M. Dumitru, Christian Eckmann, Edward H. Eiland, Joseph D. Forrester, Gustavo P. Fraga, Jean L. Frossard, Donald E. Fry, Rita Galeiras, Wagih Ghnnam, Carlos A. Gomes, Ewen A. Griffiths, Xavier Guirao, Mohamed H. Ahmed, Torsten Herzog, Jae Il Kim, Tariq Iqbal, Arda Isik, Kamal M. F. Itani, Francesco M. Labricciosa, Yeong Y. Lee, Paul Juang, Aleksandar Karamarkovic, Peter K. Kim, Yoram Kluger, Ari Leppaniemi, Varut Lohsiriwat, Gustavo M. Machain, Sanjay Marwah, John E. Mazuski, Gokhan Metan, Ernest E. Moore, Frederick A. Moore, Carlos A. Ordoñez, Leonardo Pagani, Nicola Petrosillo, Francisco Portela, Kemal Rasa, Miran Rems, Boris E. Sakakushev, Helmut Segovia-Lohse, Gabriele Sganga, Vishal G. Shelat, Patrizia Spigaglia, Pierre Tattevin, Cristian Tranà, Libor Urbánek, Jan Ulrych, Pierluigi Viale, Gian L. Baiocchi, Fausto Catena
Published 2019-02-01