Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2011 Jan 13:6:2.
doi: 10.1186/1749-7922-6-2.

WSES consensus conference: Guidelines for first-line management of intra-abdominal infections

Massimo Sartelli  1 , Pierluigi Viale, Kaoru Koike, Federico Pea, Fabio Tumietto, Harry van Goor, Gianluca Guercioni, Angelo Nespoli, Cristian Tranà, Fausto Catena, Luca Ansaloni, Ari Leppaniemi, Walter Biffl, Frederick A Moore, Renato Poggetti, Antonio Daniele Pinna, Ernest E Moore
Affiliations

WSES consensus conference: Guidelines for first-line management of intra-abdominal infections

Massimo Sartelli et al. World J Emerg Surg. .

Abstract

Intra-abdominal infections are still associated with high rate of morbidity and mortality.A multidisciplinary approach to the management of patients with intra-abdominal infections may be an important factor in the quality of care. The presence of a team of health professionals from various disciplines, working in concert, may improve efficiency, outcome, and the cost of care.A World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) Consensus Conference was held in Bologna on July 2010, during the 1st congress of the WSES, involving surgeons, infectious disease specialists, pharmacologists, radiologists and intensivists with the goal of defining recommendations for the early management of intra-abdominal infections.This document represents the executive summary of the final guidelines approved by the consensus conference.

PubMed Disclaimer

References

    1. Solomkin JS, Mazuski JE, Bradley JS, Rodvold KA, Goldstein EJ, Baron EJ, O'Neill PJ, Chow AW, Dellinger EP, Eachempati SR, Gorbach S, Hilfiker M, May AK, Nathens AB, Sawyer RG, Bartlett JG. Diagnosis and management of complicated intra-abdominal infection in adults and children: guidelines by the Surgical Infection Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis. 2010;15,50(2):133–6. doi: 10.1086/649554. - DOI - PubMed
    1. Guyatt G, Gutterman D, Baumann MH, Addrizzo-Harris D, Hylek EM, Phillips B, Raskob G, Lewis SZ, Schunemann H. Grading strength of recommendations and quality of evidence in clinical guidelines: Report from an American College of Chest Physicians task force. Chest. 2006;129:174–181. doi: 10.1378/chest.129.1.174. - DOI - PubMed
    1. Brozek JL, Akl EA, Jaeschke R, Lang DM, Bossuyt P, Glasziou P, Helfand M, Ueffing E, Alonso-Coello P, Meerpohl J, Phillips B, Horvath AR, Bousquet J, Guyatt GH, Schunemann HJ. Grading quality of evidence and strength of recommendations in clinical practice guidelines: Part 2 of 3. The GRADE approach to grading quality of evidence about diagnostic tests and strategies. Allergy. 2009;64:1109–1116. doi: 10.1111/j.1398-9995.2009.02083.x. - DOI - PubMed
    1. Moore LJ, Moore FA, Jones SL, Xu J, Bass BL. Sepsis in general surgery: a deadly complication. Am J Surg. 2009;198(6):868–74. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2009.05.025. - DOI - PubMed
    1. Moore LJ, Moore FA, Todd SR, Jones SL, Turner KL, Bass BL. Sepsis in general surgery: the 2005-2007 national surgical quality improvement program perspective. Arch Surg. 2010;145(7):695–700. doi: 10.1001/archsurg.2010.107. - DOI - PubMed

LinkOut - more resources