Department of Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Via Santa Lucia, 62100, Macerata, Italy
Massimo Sartelli
Department of General Surgery, Division of Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel
Yoram Kluger
General Surgery Department, “M. Bufalini” Cesena Hospital, Cesena, Italy
Luca Ansaloni & Federico Coccolini
Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
Gian Luca Baiocchi
Department of Surgery, Trauma Service, Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Nelson R Mandela School of Clinical Medicine, Durban, South Africa
Timothy C. Hardcastle
Department of Surgery, Denver Health Medical Center, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA
Ernest E. Moore
Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
Addison K. May
Department of Surgery, VA Boston Health Care System, Boston University, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Kamal M. F. Itani
Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
Donald E. Fry
University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Donald E. Fry
Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Marja A. Boermeester
Unit of Endocrine, Head, and Neck Surgery and Unit of Surgical Infections Support, Department of General Surgery, ParcTaulí, Hospital University, Sabadell, Spain
Xavier Guirao
Department of Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Lena Napolitano
Department of Surgery, Western Michigan University School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Robert G. Sawyer
Department of Surgery, Anadolu Medical Center, Kocaali, Turkey
Kemal Rasa
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates
Fikri M. Abu-Zidan
Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Abdulrashid K. Adesunkanmi
Department of General Surgery, Medical University of Plovdiv, UMHAT Eurohospital, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Boyko Atanasov
Department of Surgery, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Goran Augustin
Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Unit, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Miklosh Bala
Department of Surgery, Hospital Clínico Universitario, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Miguel A. Cainzos
Department of Surgery and Obstetrics/Gynaecology, Regional Hospital, Limbe, Cameroon
Alain Chichom-Mefire
Emergency Surgery Unit, San Filippo Neri Hospital, Rome, Italy
Francesco Cortese
Department of Surgery, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Dimitris Damaskos
Department of Surgery, University Clinical Center of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Samir Delibegovic
Department General Surgery, Kipshidze Central University Hospital, Tbilisi, Georgia
Zaza Demetrashvili
Department of Digestive Surgery, Cannes Hospital, Cannes, France
Belinda De Simone
Department of Surgery, John Peter Smith Health Network, Fort Worth, TX, USA
Therese M. Duane
Department of General Surgery, Mansoura Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt
Wagih Ghnnam
Second Department of Surgery, Aretaieion University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
George Gkiokas
Faculdade de Ciências Médicas e da Saúde de Juiz de Fora, Department of Surgery, Hospital Universitário Terezinha de Jesus, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Carlos A. Gomes
Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Giessen, Giessen, Germany
Andreas Hecker
Clinic for Surgery, University Clinical Center “Zvezdara”, Belgrade, Serbia
Aleksandar Karamarkovic
Third Department of General Surgery, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
Jakub Kenig
Department of Emergency Surgery, City Hospital, Mozyr, Belarus
Vladimir Khokha
Department of Surgery, Edendale Hospital, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Victor Kong
General Surgery Department, Magee Womens Hospital, UPMC, Pittsburgh, USA
Arda Isik
Abdominal Center, University Hospital Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland
Ari Leppäniemi
Surgical Disciplines, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University/Regional Clinical Hospital, Kaliningrad, Russian Federation
Andrey Litvin
1st Department of Surgery, Kavala General Hospital, Kavala, Greece
Eftychios Lostoridis
Department of Surgery, II Cátedra de Clínica Quirúrgica, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, San Lorenzo, Paraguay
Gustavo M. Machain & Helmut Segovia-Lohse
Department of Surgery, Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, India
Sanjay Marwah
Department of Surgery, Radiology, University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
Michael McFarlane
Second Surgical Clinic, Emergency Hospital of Craiova, Craiova, Romania
Cristian Mesina
Department of Surgery, Emergency Hospital of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
Ionut Negoi
Department of Surgery, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria
Iyiade Olaoye
Department of Surgery, UMC Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Tadeja Pintar
Department of General and Emergency Surgery, Riga East University Hospital “Gailezers”, Riga, Latvia
Guntars Pupelis
Department of General Surgery, Jesenice General Hospital, Jesenice, Slovenia
Miran Rems
Colorectal Surgery Unit, General Surgery Department, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Ines Rubio-Perez
General Surgery Department, Medical University, University Hospital St George, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Boris Sakakushev
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Thammasat University Hospital, Thammasat University, Amphoe Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, Thailand
Boonying Siribumrungwong
Department of Surgery, North Estonia Medical Center, Tallinn, Estonia
Peep Talving
First Department of Surgery-Department of Abdominal, Thoracic Surgery and Traumatology, General University Hospital, Prague, Czech Republic
Jan Ulrych
Department of Surgery, Medical School University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary
András G. Vereczkei
Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery, Porto, Portugal
Francesco M. Labricciosa
Department of Emergency Surgery, Maggiore Hospital, Parma, Italy
Fausto Catena
MS wrote the first draft of the manuscript. All the authors reviewed the manuscript and approved the final draft.