Guidelines for the management of patients with severe acute pancreatitis, 2021
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- DOI: 10.1016/j.accpm.2022.101060
Guidelines for the management of patients with severe acute pancreatitis, 2021
Abstract
Objective: To provide guidelines for the management of the intensive care patient with severe acute pancreatitis.
Design: A consensus committee of 22 experts was convened. A formal conflict-of-interest (COI) policy was developed at the beginning of the process and enforced throughout. The entire guideline construction process was conducted independently of any industrial funding (i.e. pharmaceutical, medical devices). The authors were required to follow the rules of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE®) system to guide assessment of quality of evidence. The potential drawbacks of making strong recommendations in the presence of low-quality evidence were emphasised.
Methods: The most recent SFAR and SNFGE guidelines on the management of the patient with severe pancreatitis were published in 2001. The literature now is sufficient for an update. The committee studied 14 questions within 3 fields. Each question was formulated in a PICO (Patients Intervention Comparison Outcome) format and the relevant evidence profiles were produced. The literature review and recommendations were made according to the GRADE® methodology.
Results: The experts' synthesis work and their application of the GRADE® method resulted in 24 recommendations. Among the formalised recommendations, 8 have high levels of evidence (GRADE 1+/-) and 12 have moderate levels of evidence (GRADE 2+/-). For 4 recommendations, the GRADE method could not be applied, resulting in expert opinions. Four questions did not find any response in the literature. After one round of scoring, strong agreement was reached for all the recommendations.
Conclusions: There was strong agreement among experts for 24 recommendations to improve practices for the management of intensive care patients with severe acute pancreatitis.
Keywords: Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Critical care; Guidelines; Intensive care unit; Sepsis; Severe acute pancreatitis.
Copyright © 2022. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.
Comment in
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Improving the management of severe acute pancreatitis: The new guidelines from the French Society of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine.Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2022 Jun;41(3):101103. doi: 10.1016/j.accpm.2022.101103. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2022. PMID: 35715021 No abstract available.
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Management of severe acute pancreatitis: all hands to the pump.Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr. 2022 Dec;11(6):903-905. doi: 10.21037/hbsn-22-529. Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr. 2022. PMID: 36523937 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
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