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Review
. 2023 Jul 26;18(1):42.
doi: 10.1186/s13017-023-00511-w.

ECLAPTE: Effective Closure of LAParoTomy in Emergency-2023 World Society of Emergency Surgery guidelines for the closure of laparotomy in emergency settings

Simone Frassini  1   2 Lorenzo Cobianchi  3   4 Paola Fugazzola  4 Walter L Biffl  5 Federico Coccolini  6 Dimitrios Damaskos  7 Ernest E Moore  8 Yoram Kluger  9 Marco Ceresoli  10 Raul Coimbra  11 Justin Davies  12 Andrew Kirkpatrick  13 Isidoro Di Carlo  14 Timothy C Hardcastle  15   16 Arda Isik  17 Massimo Chiarugi  6 Kurinchi Gurusamy  18 Ronald V Maier  19 Helmut A Segovia Lohse  20 Hans Jeekel  21 Marja A Boermeester  22 Fikri Abu-Zidan  23 Kenji Inaba  24 Dieter G Weber  25 Goran Augustin  26 Luigi Bonavina  27 George Velmahos  28 Massimo Sartelli  29 Salomone Di Saverio  30 Richard P G Ten Broek  31 Stefano Granieri  32 Francesca Dal Mas  33 Camilla Nikita Farè  3   4 Jacopo Peverada  3   4 Simone Zanghì  3   4 Jacopo Viganò  3   4 Matteo Tomasoni  4 Tommaso Dominioni  4 Enrico Cicuttin  4 Andreas Hecker  34 Giovanni D Tebala  35 Joseph M Galante  36 Imtiaz Wani  37 Vladimir Khokha  38 Michael Sugrue  39 Thomas M Scalea  40 Edward Tan  31 Mark A Malangoni  41 Nikolaos Pararas  42 Mauro Podda  43 Belinda De Simone  44 Rao Ivatury  45 Yunfeng Cui  46 Jeffry Kashuk  47 Andrew Peitzman  48 Fernando Kim  49 Emmanouil Pikoulis  50 Gabriele Sganga  51 Osvaldo Chiara  52 Michael D Kelly  53 Ingo Marzi  54 Edoardo Picetti  55 Vanni Agnoletti  56 Nicola De'Angelis  57 Giampiero Campanelli  58 Marc de Moya  59 Andrey Litvin  60 Aleix Martínez-Pérez  61 Ibrahima Sall  62 Sandro Rizoli  63 Gia Tomadze  64 Boris Sakakushev  65 Philip F Stahel  66 Ian Civil  67 Vishal Shelat  68 David Costa  69 Alain Chichom-Mefire  70 Rifat Latifi  71 Mircea Chirica  72 Francesco Amico  73 Amyn Pardhan  74 Vidya Seenarain  75 Nikitha Boyapati  75 Basil Hatz  76 Travis Ackermann  77 Sandun Abeyasundara  78 Linda Fenton  79 Frank Plani  80 Rohit Sarvepalli  25 Omid Rouhbakhshfar  25 Pamela Caleo  81 Victor Ho-Ching Yau  82 Kristenne Clement  83 Erasmia Christou  25 Ana María González Castillo  84 Preet K S Gosal  85 Sunder Balasubramaniam  86 Jeremy Hsu  86 Kamon Banphawatanarak  87 Michele Pisano  88 Toro Adriana  89 Altomare Michele  52 Stefano P B Cioffi  52 Andrea Spota  52 Fausto Catena  90 Luca Ansaloni  3   4
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ECLAPTE: Effective Closure of LAParoTomy in Emergency-2023 World Society of Emergency Surgery guidelines for the closure of laparotomy in emergency settings

Simone Frassini et al. World J Emerg Surg. .

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  • Correction: ECLAPTE: Effective Closure of LAParoTomy in Emergency-2023 World Society of Emergency Surgery guidelines for the closure of laparotomy in emergency settings.
    Frassini S, Cobianchi L, Fugazzola P, Biffl WL, Coccolini F, Damaskos D, Moore EE, Kluger Y, Ceresoli M, Coimbra R, Davies J, Kirkpatrick A, Di Carlo I, Hardcastle TC, Isik A, Chiarugi M, Gurusamy K, Maier RV, Segovia Lohse HA, Jeekel H, Boermeester MA, Abu-Zidan F, Inaba K, Weber DG, Augustin G, Bonavina L, Velmahos G, Sartelli M, Di Saverio S, Ten Broek RPG, Granieri S, Dal Mas F, Farè CN, Peverada J, Zanghì S, Viganò J, Tomasoni M, Dominioni T, Cicuttin E, Hecker A, Tebala GD, Galante JM, Wani I, Khokha V, Sugrue M, Scalea TM, Tan E, Malangoni MA, Pararas N, Podda M, De Simone B, Ivatury R, Cui Y, Kashuk J, Peitzman A, Kim F, Pikoulis E, Sganga G, Chiara O, Kelly MD, Marzi I, Picetti E, Agnoletti V, De'Angelis N, Campanelli G, de Moya M, Litvin A, Martínez-Pérez A, Sall I, Rizoli S, Tomadze G, Sakakushev B, Stahel PF, Civil I, Shelat V, Costa D, Chichom-Mefire A, Latifi R, Chirica M, Amico F, Pardhan A, Seenarain V, Boyapati N, Hatz B, Ackermann T, Abeyasundara S, Fenton L, Plani F, Sarvepalli R, Rouhbakhshfar O, Caleo P, Ho-Ching Yau V, Clement K, Christou E, Castillo AMG, Gosal PKS, Balasubramaniam S, Hsu J, Banphawatanarak K, Pisano M, Toro A, Michele A, Cioffi SPB, Spota A,… See abstract for full author list ➔ Frassini S, et al. World J Emerg Surg. 2023 Nov 27;18(1):52. doi: 10.1186/s13017-023-00522-7. World J Emerg Surg. 2023. PMID: 38012756 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Abstract

Laparotomy incisions provide easy and rapid access to the peritoneal cavity in case of emergency surgery. Incisional hernia (IH) is a late manifestation of the failure of abdominal wall closure and represents frequent complication of any abdominal incision: IHs can cause pain and discomfort to the patients but also clinical serious sequelae like bowel obstruction, incarceration, strangulation, and necessity of reoperation. Previous guidelines and indications in the literature consider elective settings and evidence about laparotomy closure in emergency settings is lacking. This paper aims to present the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) project called ECLAPTE (Effective Closure of LAParoTomy in Emergency): the final manuscript includes guidelines on the closure of emergency laparotomy.

Keywords: Abdominal wall incision; Closure technique; Emergency; Incisional hernia; Laparotomy closure; Midline incision; Wound complications; Wound dehiscence.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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ECLAPTE project step-by-step process

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