Table 1 The 7 key questions and the working groups of experts who contributed to the WSES guidelines on biliary duct injury (BDI) detection and management
From: 2020 WSES guidelines for the detection and management of bile duct injury during cholecystectomy
Question n° 1: What are the general recommendations to minimize the risk of BDI during laparoscopic cholecystectomy in elective and emergency settings? | ||
Team leader Federico Coccolini | Co-leads Federico Gheza and Andrea De Palma | Working group members Miklosh Bala, Ofir Ben-Ishay, Marco Ceresoli, Stefania Cimbanassi, Philip de Reuver, Bertrand Le Roy, Chichom Mefire, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Carlos Ordoñez, Richard ten Broek and Dieter Weber |
Question n° 2: What are the reported BDI rates during LC in emergency and elective settings and when should a surgical team review its current practice to improve the standards of care? | ||
Team leader Aleix Martinez-Perez | Co-leads Salomone Di Saverio | Working group members Luca Ansaloni, Daniel Casanova, David Fuks, Carlos Domingo, Manuel Planells, Yoram Kluger, Filippo Landi, Andrew B. Peitzman, Sandro Rizoli and Mario Serradilla-Martin |
Question n° 3: Which classifications of BDI should be adopted and what is the minimum required information that the surgeon must report after diagnosing BDI during laparoscopic cholecystectomy? | ||
Team leader Nicola de’Angelis | Co-leads Nassiba Beghdadi | Working group members Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Marc-Antoine Allard, Francesco Brunetti, Maria Clotilde Carra, Valerio Celentano, Christian Cotsoglou, Federica Gaiani, Reza Kianmanesh, Real Lapointe, Bruno M. Pereira, Luca Portigliotti and Giorgos Veloudis |
Question n° 4: What are the surgical management strategies and timing for intraoperatively diagnosed BDI? | ||
Team leader Daniele Sommacale | Co-leads Raffaele Brustia | Working group members Ruslan Alikhanov, Alessandro Ferrero, Felice Giuliante, Stefan Hofmeyr, Mohammed Lamine Sissoko, Serena Langella, Kazuhiro Niramatsu, Juan Pekolj, Fabiano Perdigao, Behnam Sanei, Olivier Scatton, Boris Sakakushev and Roberto Valinas |
Question n° 5: What is the recommended type and duration of antibiotic regimen in cases of BDI? | ||
Team leader Oreste M. Romeo | Co-leads Tullio Piardi and Rami Rhaiem | Working group members Niccolò Allievi, Roland Andersson, Enrico Andolfi, Walter Biffl, Raul Coimbra, Gustavo Fraga, Angela Gurrado, Michele Pisano, Raffaele Romito, Anne-Sophie Schnek and Giulio Vitali |
Question n° 6: Which are the clinical, biochemical, and imaging investigations required for the postoperative diagnosis of BDI? | ||
Team leader Fausto Catena | Co-leads Belinda de Simone | Working group members Giuliana Amaddeo, Osvaldo Chiara, Roberto Bini, Gian Luigi de’Angelis, Francesco Decembrino, Federica Gaiani, Roberta Iadarola, Alain Luciani, Ronald V. Maier, Franca Patrizi, Juan Carlos Puyana, Iradj Sobhani, Mario Testini and Luigi Zorcolo |
Question n° 7: What are the surgical management strategies and timing for postoperatively diagnosed BDI? | ||
Team leader Riccardo Memeo | Co-leads Maria Conticchio and Francesco Marchegiani | Working group members Mohammad Azfar, Amine Benkabbou, Raffaele Brustia, Salomone Di Saverio, Paschalis Gavriilidis, Ewen Harrison, Umberto Maggi, Angel Henriquez, Stefan Hofmeyr, Jeffry L Kashuk, Fernando Machado, Patrick Pessaux, Behnam Sanei and Daniele Sommacale |