World Journal of Emergency Surgery

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Protocol for a parallel economic evaluation of a trial comparing two surgical strategies in severe complicated intra-abdominal sepsis: the COOL-cost study

Authors: Joshua S. Ng-Kamstra, Elissa Rennert-May, Jessica McKee, Skyla Lundgren, Braden Manns and Andrew W. Kirkpatrick

Content type: Study protocol

21 February 2020
A proposal for a comprehensive approach to infections across the surgical pathway

Authors: Massimo Sartelli, Leonardo Pagani, Stefania Iannazzo, Maria Luisa Moro, Pierluigi Viale, Angelo Pan, Luca Ansaloni, Federico Coccolini, Marcello Mario D’Errico, Iris Agreiter, Giorgio Amadio Nespola, Francesco Barchiesi, Valeria Benigni, Raffaella Binazzi, Stefano Cappanera, Alessandro Chiodera…

Content type: Review

18 February 2020
Emergency general surgeons: the special forces of general surgery (the “navy seals paradigm”)

Authors: Fausto Catena, Walter Biffl, Belinda De Simone, Massimo Sartelli, Salomone Di Saverio, Yoram Kluger, Ernest E. Moore, Luca Ansaloni and Federico Coccolini

Content type: Letter to the Editor

12 February 2020
Intraoperative surgical site infection control and prevention: a position paper and future addendum to WSES intra-abdominal infections guidelines

Authors: Belinda De Simone, Massimo Sartelli, Federico Coccolini, Chad G. Ball, Pietro Brambillasca, Massimo Chiarugi, Fabio Cesare Campanile, Gabriela Nita, Davide Corbella, Ari Leppaniemi, Elena Boschini, Ernest E. Moore, Walter Biffl, Andrew Peitzmann, Yoram Kluger, Michael Sugrue…

Content type: Review

10 February 2020
Associated abdominal injuries do not influence quality of care in pelvic fractures—a multicenter cohort study from the German Pelvic Registry

Authors: Markus A. Küper, Robert Bachmann, Götz F. Wenig, Patrick Ziegler, Alexander Trulson, Inga M. Trulson, Christian Minarski, Ruth Ladurner, Ulrich Stöckle, Andreas Höch, Steven C. Herath and Fabian M. Stuby

Content type: Research article

17 January 2020

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Treatment of burns in the first 24 hours: simple and practical guide by answering 10 questions in a step-by-step form

Authors: Ziyad Alharbi, Andrzej Piatkowski, Rolf Dembinski, Sven Reckort, Gerrit Grieb, Jens Kauczok and Norbert Pallua

Content type: Review

14 May 2012
2013 WSES guidelines for management of intra-abdominal infections

Authors: Massimo Sartelli, Pierluigi Viale, Fausto Catena, Luca Ansaloni, Ernest Moore, Mark Malangoni, Frederick A Moore, George Velmahos, Raul Coimbra, Rao Ivatury, Andrew Peitzman, Kaoru Koike, Ari Leppaniemi, Walter Biffl, Clay Cothren Burlew, Zsolt J Balogh…

Content type: Review

8 January 2013
2019 WSES guidelines for the management of severe acute pancreatitis

Authors: Ari Leppäniemi, Matti Tolonen, Antonio Tarasconi, Helmut Segovia-Lohse, Emiliano Gamberini, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Chad G. Ball, Neil Parry, Massimo Sartelli, Daan Wolbrink, Harry van Goor, Gianluca Baiocchi, Luca Ansaloni, Walter Biffl, Federico Coccolini, Salomone Di Saverio…

Content type: Review

13 June 2019
Bologna guidelines for diagnosis and management of adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO): 2013 update of the evidence-based guidelines from the world society of emergency surgery ASBO working group

Authors: Salomone Di Saverio, Federico Coccolini, Marica Galati, Nazareno Smerieri, Walter L Biffl, Luca Ansaloni, Gregorio Tugnoli, George C Velmahos, Massimo Sartelli, Cino Bendinelli, Gustavo Pereira Fraga, Michael D Kelly, Frederick A Moore, Vincenzo Mandalà, Stefano Mandalà, Michele Masetti…

Content type: Review

10 October 2013
Diagnosis and treatment of perforated or bleeding peptic ulcers: 2013 WSES position paper

Authors: Salomone Di Saverio, Marco Bassi, Nazareno Smerieri, Michele Masetti, Francesco Ferrara, Carlo Fabbri, Luca Ansaloni, Stefania Ghersi, Matteo Serenari, Federico Coccolini, Noel Naidoo, Massimo Sartelli, Gregorio Tugnoli, Fausto Catena, Vincenzo Cennamo and Elio Jovine

Content type: Review

3 August 2014

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Aims and scope

World Journal of Emergency Surgery is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that encompasses all aspects of clinical and basic research related to traumatic and non-traumatic emergency surgery and its allied subjects. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: emergency surgery, acute care surgery, trauma surgery, intensive care, trauma management and resuscitation.

WSES Guidelines

World Society of Emergency Surgery official guidelines and classifications

Fausto Catena, Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Catena is currently Chief of the Department of Emergency Surgery at Parma University Hospital, having graduated in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is also General Secretary of the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) and Director of the WSES Educational Program.

Walter Biffl, Editor-in-Chief

Dr. Biffl is Medical Director of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, San Diego, California, USA. He completed his undergraduate training at Duke University, medical training at George Washington University and surgical training at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, where he also completed an NIH-sponsored trauma research fellowship.

World Journal of Emergency Surgery

Articles

Protocol for a parallel economic evaluation of a trial comparing two surgical strategies in severe complicated intra-abdominal sepsis: the COOL-cost study

A proposal for a comprehensive approach to infections across the surgical pathway

Emergency general surgeons: the special forces of general surgery (the “navy seals paradigm”)

Intraoperative surgical site infection control and prevention: a position paper and future addendum to WSES intra-abdominal infections guidelines

Associated abdominal injuries do not influence quality of care in pelvic fractures—a multicenter cohort study from the German Pelvic Registry

Treatment of burns in the first 24 hours: simple and practical guide by answering 10 questions in a step-by-step form

2013 WSES guidelines for management of intra-abdominal infections

2019 WSES guidelines for the management of severe acute pancreatitis

Bologna guidelines for diagnosis and management of adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO): 2013 update of the evidence-based guidelines from the world society of emergency surgery ASBO working group

Diagnosis and treatment of perforated or bleeding peptic ulcers: 2013 WSES position paper

Aims and scope

WSES Guidelines

Fausto Catena, Editor-in-Chief

Walter Biffl, Editor-in-Chief

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