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Open AccessStrategies to prevent blood loss and reduce transfusion in emergency general surgery, WSES-AAST consensus paper
Emergency general surgeons often provide care to severely ill patients requiring surgical interventions and intensive support. One of the primary drivers of morbidity and mortality is perioperative bleeding. I...
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Open AccessA pandemic recap: lessons we have learned
On January 2020, the WHO Director General declared that the outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The world has faced a worldwide spread crisis and is still dealing with it. ...
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Open AccessLiver trauma: WSES 2020 guidelines
Liver injuries represent one of the most frequent life-threatening injuries in trauma patients. In determining the optimal management strategy, the anatomic injury, the hemodynamic status, and the associated i...
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Correction to: Resources for Optimal Care of Emergency Surgery
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Research in Emergency General Surgery
The ever increasing need to optimize healthcare costs associated with increasing quality of care has placed the magnifying glass on some aspects and on some sectors that were previously not considered.
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Acute Care Surgery Unit Structure
Acute care surgery (ACS) refers to the surgical management of serious, emergency conditions, requiring some form of immediate surgical care or intervention. Essentially ACS should offer the surgeon the opportu...
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Open AccessDuodeno-pancreatic and extrahepatic biliary tree trauma: WSES-AAST guidelines
Duodeno-pancreatic and extrahepatic biliary tree injuries are rare in both adult and pediatric trauma patients, and due to their anatomical location, associated injuries are very common. Mortality is primarily...
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Open AccessKidney and uro-trauma: WSES-AAST guidelines
Renal and urogenital injuries occur in approximately 10-20% of abdominal trauma in adults and children. Optimal management should take into consideration the anatomic injury, the hemodynamic status, and the as...
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Open Access2017 WSES guidelines on colon and rectal cancer emergencies: obstruction and perforation
Obstruction and perforation due to colorectal cancer represent challenging matters in terms of diagnosis, life-saving strategies, obstruction resolution and oncologic challenge. The aims of the current paper a...
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Open AccessBologna 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 ASBO working group
Adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO) is a common surgical emergency, causing high morbidity and even some mortality. The adhesions causing such bowel obstructions are typically the footprints of previous ab...
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Open AccessWSES worldwide emergency general surgery formation and evaluation project
Optimal management of emergency surgical patients represents one of the major health challenges worldwide. Emergency general surgery (EGS) was identified as multidisciplinary surgery performed for traumatic an...
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Open AccessThe open abdomen in trauma and non-trauma patients: WSES guidelines
Damage control resuscitation may lead to postoperative intra-abdominal hypertension or abdominal compartment syndrome. These conditions may result in a vicious, self-perpetuating cycle leading to severe physio...
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Open AccessThe role of open abdomen in non-trauma patient: WSES Consensus Paper
The open abdomen (OA) is defined as intentional decision to leave the fascial edges of the abdomen un-approximated after laparotomy (laparostomy). The abdominal contents are potentially exposed and therefore m...
