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Review
. 2022 Jan 15;17(1):3.
doi: 10.1186/s13017-022-00406-2.

WSES/GAIS/WSIS/SIS-E/AAST global clinical pathways for patients with skin and soft tissue infections

Massimo Sartelli  1 Federico Coccolini  2 Yoram Kluger  3 Ervis Agastra  4 Fikri M Abu-Zidan  5 Ashraf El Sayed Abbas  6 Luca Ansaloni  7 Abdulrashid Kayode Adesunkanmi  8 Goran Augustin  9 Miklosh Bala  10 Oussama Baraket  11 Walter L Biffl  12 Marco Ceresoli  13 Elisabetta Cerutti  14 Osvaldo Chiara  15 Enrico Cicuttin  2 Massimo Chiarugi  2 Raul Coimbra  16 Daniela Corsi  17 Francesco Cortese  18 Yunfeng Cui  19 Dimitris Damaskos  20 Nicola de'Angelis  21   22 Samir Delibegovic  23 Zaza Demetrashvili  24 Belinda De Simone  25 Stijn W de Jonge  26 Stefano Di Bella  27 Salomone Di Saverio  28 Therese M Duane  29 Paola Fugazzola  7 Joseph M Galante  30 Wagih Ghnnam  31 George Gkiokas  32 Carlos Augusto Gomes  33 Ewen A Griffiths  34 Timothy C Hardcastle  35 Andreas Hecker  36 Torsten Herzog  37 Aleksandar Karamarkovic  38 Vladimir Khokha  39 Peter K Kim  40 Jae Il Kim  41 Andrew W Kirkpatrick  42 Victor Kong  43 Renol M Koshy  44 Kenji Inaba  45 Arda Isik  46 Rao Ivatury  47 Francesco M Labricciosa  48 Yeong Yeh Lee  49 Ari Leppäniemi  50 Andrey Litvin  51 Davide Luppi  52 Ronald V Maier  53 Athanasios Marinis  54 Sanjay Marwah  55 Cristian Mesina  56 Ernest E Moore  57 Frederick A Moore  58 Ionut Negoi  59 Iyiade Olaoye  60 Carlos A Ordoñez  61   62 Mouaqit Ouadii  63 Andrew B Peitzman  64 Gennaro Perrone  65 Tadeja Pintar  66 Giuseppe Pipitone  67 Mauro Podda  68 Kemal Raşa  69 Julival Ribeiro  70 Gabriel Rodrigues  71 Ines Rubio-Perez  72 Ibrahima Sall  73 Norio Sato  74 Robert G Sawyer  75 Vishal G Shelat  76 Michael Sugrue  77 Antonio Tarasconi  65 Matti Tolonen  50 Bruno Viaggi  78 Andrea Celotti  79 Claudio Casella  80 Leonardo Pagani  81 Sameer Dhingra  82 Gian Luca Baiocchi  79   80 Fausto Catena  83
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Review

WSES/GAIS/WSIS/SIS-E/AAST global clinical pathways for patients with skin and soft tissue infections

Massimo Sartelli et al. World J Emerg Surg. .

Abstract

Skin and soft-tissue infections (SSTIs) encompass a variety of pathological conditions that involve the skin and underlying subcutaneous tissue, fascia, or muscle, ranging from simple superficial infections to severe necrotizing infections.Together, the World Society of Emergency Surgery, the Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery, the Surgical Infection Society-Europe, The World Surgical Infection Society, and the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma have jointly completed an international multi-society document to promote global standards of care in SSTIs guiding clinicians by describing reasonable approaches to the management of SSTIs.An extensive non-systematic review was conducted using the PubMed and MEDLINE databases, limited to the English language. The resulting evidence was shared by an international task force with different clinical backgrounds.

Keywords: Necrotizing infections; Necrotizing soft-tissue infections; Skin and soft-tissue infections.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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