Issue 1/2014
Content (63 Articles)
Risk factors for late death of patients with abdominal trauma after damage control laparotomy for hemostasis
Li-Min Liao, Chih-Yuan Fu, Shang-Yu Wang, Chien-Hung Liao, Shih-Ching Kang, Chun-Hsiang Ouyang, I-Ming Kuo, Shang-Ju Yang, Yu-Pao Hsu, Chun-Nan Yeh, Shao-Wei Chen
A randomized comparison of gasless laparoscopic appendectomy and conventional laparoscopic appendectomy
Bujun Ge, Haibo Zhao, Quanning Chen, Wei Jin, Liming Liu, Qi Huang
Impact of an acute care surgery service on timeliness of care and surgeon satisfaction at a Canadian academic hospital: a retrospective study
Kerollos N Wanis, Allison M Hunter, Michael B Harington, Gary Groot
Thoracoscopic removal of dental prosthesis impacted in the upper thoracic esophagus
Luigi Bonavina, Alberto Aiolfi, Stefano Siboni, Emanuele Rausa
Acute appendicitis in the elderly: risk factors for perforation
Abdelkarim H Omari, Muhammad R Khammash, Ghazi R Qasaimeh, Ahmad K Shammari, Mohammad K Bani Yaseen, Sahel K Hammori
Emergency right hemicolectomy for inflammatory cecal masses mimicking acute appendicitis
Hakan Guven, Bora Koc, Fazil Saglam, Irem Akin Bayram, Gokhan Adas
Oesophageal injuries: Position paper, WSES, 2013
Rao R Ivatury, Frederick A Moore, Walter Biffl, Ari Leppeniemi, Luca Ansaloni, Fausto Catena, Andrew Peitzman, Ernest E Moore
Delayed appendectomy versus early appendectomy in the treatment of acute appendicitis: a retrospective study
Chang Sik Shin, Young Nam Roh, Jae Il Kim
Endoscopic duodenal perforation: surgical strategies in a regional centre
Richard C Turner, Christina M Steffen, Peter Boyd
Assessment of maxillofacial trauma in emergency department
Engin D Arslan, Alper G Solakoglu, Erdal Komut, Cemil Kavalci, Fevzi Yilmaz, Evvah Karakilic, Tamer Durdu, Muge Sonmez
Emergency surgeon: “ last of the mohicans” 2014-2016 editorial policy WSES- WJES: position papers, guidelines, courses, books and original research; from WJES impact factor to WSES congress impact factor
Fausto Catena, Frederick Moore, Luca Ansaloni, Ari Leppäniemi, Massimo Sartelli, Andrew B Peitzmann, Walt Biffl, Federico Coccolini, Salomone Di Saverio, Belinda De Simone, Michele Pisano, Ernest E Moore
The value of Serum BNP for diagnosis of intracranial injury in minor head trauma
Ali Demir, Cemil Kavalci, Muhittin Serkan Yilmaz, Fevzi Yilmaz, Tamer Durdu, Mehmet Ali Ceyhan, Fatih Alagoz, Cihat Yel
Position paper: timely interventions in severe acute pancreatitis are crucial for survival
Panu Mentula, Ari Leppäniemi
Methylene Blue injection via superior mesenteric artery microcatheter for focused enterectomy in the treatment of a bleeding small intestinal arteriovenous malformation
James Frydman, Hany Bahouth, Maxim Leiderman, Amos Ofer, Yoram Kluger
Looking beyond discharge: clinical variables at trauma admission predict long term survival in the older severely injured patient
Miklosh Bala, Jeffry L Kashuk, Dafna Willner, Dima Kaluzhni, Tali Bdolah-Abram, Gidon Almogy
Management of hemodynamically unstable pelvic trauma: results of the first Italian consensus conference (cooperative guidelines of the Italian Society of Surgery, the Italian Association of Hospital Surgeons, the Multi-specialist Italian Society of Young Surgeons, the Italian Society of Emergency Surgery and Trauma, the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care, the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, the Italian Society of Emergency Medicine, the Italian
Stefano Magnone, Federico Coccolini, Roberto Manfredi, Dario Piazzalunga, Roberto Agazzi, Claudio Arici, Marco Barozzi, Giovanni Bellanova, Alberto Belluati, Giorgio Berlot, Walter Biffl, Stefania Camagni, Luca Campanati, Claudio Carlo Castelli, Fausto Catena, Osvaldo Chiara, Nicola Colaianni, Salvatore De Masi, Salomone Di Saverio, Giuseppe Dodi, Andrea Fabbri, Giovanni Faustinelli, Giorgio Gambale, Michela Giulii Capponi, Marco Lotti, Gian Mariano Marchesi, Alessandro Massè, Tiziana Mastropietro, Giuseppe Nardi, Raffaella Niola, Gabriela Elisa Nita, Michele Pisano, Elia Poiasina, Eugenio Poletti, Antonio Rampoldi, Sergio Ribaldi, Gennaro Rispoli, Luigi Rizzi, Valter Sonzogni, Gregorio Tugnoli, Luca Ansaloni
Acute appendicitis: position paper, WSES, 2013
Ferdinando Agresta, Luca Ansaloni, Fausto Catena, Luca Andrea Verza, Daniela Prando
Mean platelet volume: a novel predictive marker for mortality in patients with acute mesenteric ischemia?
Ergenekon Karagöz, Alexis Kofi Okoh, Alpaslan Tanoglu
An acute care surgery service expedites the treatment of emergency colorectal cancer: a retrospective case–control study
Ram Venkatesh Anantha, Muriel Brackstone, Neil Parry, Ken Leslie
Successful interventional management of abdominal compartment syndrome caused by blunt liver injury with hemorrhagic diathesis
Hiroyuki Tokue, Azusa Tokue, Yoshito Tsushima
Allocating operating room resources to an acute care surgery service does not affect wait-times for elective cancer surgeries: a retrospective cohort study
Ram Venkatesh Anantha, Dave Paskar, Kelly Vogt, Silvie Crawford, Neil Parry, Ken Leslie
Current concept of abdominal sepsis: WSES position paper
Massimo Sartelli, Fausto Catena, Salomone Di Saverio, Luca Ansaloni, Mark Malangoni, Ernest E Moore, Frederick A Moore, Rao Ivatury, Raul Coimbra, Ari Leppaniemi, Walter Biffl, Yoram Kluger, Gustavo P Fraga, Carlos A Ordonez, Sanjay Marwah, Igor Gerych, Jae Gil Lee, Cristian Tranà, Federico Coccolini, Francesco Corradetti, James Kirkby-Bott
Extended negative pressure wound therapy-assisted dermatotraction for the closure of large open fasciotomy wounds in necrotizing fasciitis patients
Jun Yong Lee, Hyunwook Jung, Ho Kwon, Sung-No Jung
Comparison of 3-Factor Prothrombin Complex Concentrate and Low-Dose Recombinant Factor VIIa for Warfarin Reversal
Scott A Chapman, Eric D Irwin, Nada M Abou-Karam, Nichole M Rupnow, Katherine E Hutson, Jeffrey Vespa, Robert M Roach
Comparison of the Canadian CT head rule and the new orleans criteria in patients with minor head injury
Cemil Kavalci, Gokhan Aksel, Omer Salt, M Serkan Yilmaz, Ali Demir, Gulsüm Kavalci, Betul Akbuga Ozel, Ertugrul Altinbilek, Tamer Durdu, Cihat Yel, Polat Durukan, Bahattin Isik
Goal-directed transfusion protocol via thrombelastography in patients with abdominal trauma: a retrospective study
Jianyi Yin, Zhenguo Zhao, Yousheng Li, Jian Wang, Danhua Yao, Shaoyi Zhang, Wenkui Yu, Ning Li, Jieshou Li
Robotic right colectomy for hemorrhagic right colon cancer: a case report and review of the literature of minimally invasive urgent colectomy
Emanuele Felli, Francesco Brunetti, Mara Disabato, Chady Salloum, Daniel Azoulay, Nicola de’Angelis
Repair of diaphragmatic hernia following spinal surgery by laparoscopic mesh application: a case report and review of the literature
Roberto Bini, Diego Fontana, Alessandro Longo, Paolo Manconi, Renzo Leli
Giant extra-hepatic thrombosed portal vein aneurysm: a case report and review of the literature
Ismaïl Labgaa, Yann Lachenal, Pierre Allemann, Nicolas Demartines, Markus Schäfer
Right diaphragmatic injury and lacerated liver during a penetrating abdominal trauma: case report and brief literature review
Antonino Agrusa, Giorgio Romano, Daniela Chianetta, Giovanni De Vita, Giuseppe Frazzetta, Giuseppe Di Buono, Vincenzo Sorce, Gaspare Gulotta
Blunt cerebrovascular injury in rugby and other contact sports: case report and review of the literature
Trajan A Cuellar, Lawrence Lottenberg, Frederick A Moore
Complicated intra-abdominal infections worldwide: the definitive data of the CIAOW Study
Massimo Sartelli, Fausto Catena, Luca Ansaloni, Federico Coccolini, Davide Corbella, Ernest E Moore, Mark Malangoni, George Velmahos, Raul Coimbra, Kaoru Koike, Ari Leppaniemi, Walter Biffl, Zsolt Balogh, Cino Bendinelli, Sanjay Gupta, Yoram Kluger, Ferdinando Agresta, Salomone Di Saverio, Gregorio Tugnoli, Elio Jovine, Carlos A Ordonez, James F Whelan, Gustavo P Fraga, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Gerson Alves Pereira Junior, Kuo-Ching Yuan, Miklosh Bala, Miroslav P Peev, Offir Ben-Ishay, Yunfeng Cui, Sanjay Marwah, Sanoop Zachariah, Imtiaz Wani, Muthukumaran Rangarajan, Boris Sakakushev, Victor Kong, Adamu Ahmed, Ashraf Abbas, Ricardo Alessandro Teixeira Gonsaga, Gianluca Guercioni, Nereo Vettoretto, Elia Poiasina, Rafael Díaz-Nieto, Damien Massalou, Matej Skrovina, Ihor Gerych, Goran Augustin, Jakub Kenig, Vladimir Khokha, Cristian Tranà, Kenneth Yuh Yen Kok, Alain Chichom Mefire, Jae Gil Lee, Suk-Kyung Hong, Helmut Alfredo Segovia Lohse, Wagih Ghnnam, Alfredo Verni, Varut Lohsiriwat, Boonying Siribumrungwong, Tamer El Zalabany, Alberto Tavares, Gianluca Baiocchi, Koray Das, Julien Jarry, Maurice Zida, Norio Sato, Kiyoshi Murata, Tomohisa Shoko, Takayuki Irahara, Ahmed O Hamedelneel, Noel Naidoo, Abdul Rashid Kayode Adesunkanmi, Yoshiro Kobe, Wataru Ishii, Kazuyuki Oka, Yoshimitsu Izawa, Hytham Hamid, Iqbal Khan, AK Attri, Rajeev Sharma, Juan Sanjuan, Marisol Badiel, Rita Barnabé
Lemierre’s disease: a case with bilateral iliopsoas abscesses and a literature review
Nicholas TE Bird, Derek Cocker, Paul Cullis, Richard Schofield, Ben Challoner, Alastair Hayes, Martin Brett
Establishment and implementation of an effective rule for the interpretation of computed tomography scans by emergency physicians in blunt trauma
Yukihiro Ikegami, Tsuyoshi Suzuki, Chiaki Nemoto, Yasuhiko Tsukada, Arifumi Hasegawa, Jiro Shimada, Choichiro Tase
Analysis and injury paterns of walnut tree falls in central anatolia of turkey
Suleyman Ersoy, Bedriye Müge Sonmez, Fevzi Yilmaz, Cemil Kavalci, Derya Ozturk, Ertugrul Altinbilek, Fatih Alagöz, Fatma Cesur, Ali Erdem Yildirim, Ozhan Merzuk Uckun, Tezcan Akin
Cost of care and antibiotic prescribing attitudes for community-acquired complicated intra-abdominal infections in Italy: a retrospective study
Lidia Dalfino, Francesco Bruno, Sergio Colizza, Ercole Concia, Andrea Novelli, Fabrizio Rebecchi, Federico Spandonaro, Cristina Alato
Predictors of in-hospital mortality and complications in very elderly patients undergoing emergency surgery
Shaheed Merani, Judd Payne, Raj S Padwal, Darren Hudson, Sandy L Widder, Rachel G Khadaroo
Endoscopic reduction of a volvulus of the sigmoid colon in pregnancy: case report and a comprehensive review of the literature
Zia Aftab, Adriana Toro, Abdelrahmam Abdelaal, Mohammed Dasovky, Salahdin Gehani, Abdelatif Abdel Mola, Isidoro Di Carlo
Strangulated or incarcerated spontaneous lumbar hernia as exceptional cause of intestinal obstruction: case report and review of the literature
Marcus Fokou, Patrick Fotso, Marcelin Ngowe Ngowe, Arthur Essomba, Maurice Sosso
Diagnosis and treatment of perforated or bleeding peptic ulcers: 2013 WSES position paper
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, Elio Jovine
Isolated dissection of the superior mesenteric artery treated using open emergency surgery
Markus Udo Wagenhäuser, Tolga Atilla Sagban, Mareike Witte, Mansur Duran, Hubert Schelzig, Alexander Oberhuber
Triage using a self-assessment questionnaire to detect potentially life-threatening emergencies in gynecology
Cyrille Huchon, Alexandre Dumont, Anne Chantry, Bruno Falissard, Arnaud Fauconnier
Successful open abdomen treatment for multiple ischemic duodenal perforated ulcers in dermatomyositis
Roberta Villa, Stefano Costa, Sibilla Focchi, Carlo Corbellini, Massimo Vigorelli, Ettore Contessini Avesani
A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of delayed primary wound closure in contaminated abdominal wounds
Boonying Siribumrungwong, Pinit Noorit, Chumpon Wilasrusmee, Ammarin Thakkinstian
Catastrophic hemorrhage of adrenal pheochromocytoma following thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction: case report and literature review
Tarik Souiki, Zoheir Tekni, Hind Laachach, Amal Bennani, Youssef Zrihni, Azeddine Tadmori, Farida Ajdi, Abderahim Bouazzaoui, Laila Chbani, Hafid Akoudad, Khalid Mazaz, Said Aitlaalim
Non-operative management attempted for selective high grade blunt hepatosplenic trauma is a feasible strategy
Ting-Min Hsieh, Tsung Cheng Tsai, Jiun-Lung Liang, Chih Che Lin
Hartmann’s procedure vs loop colostomy in the treatment of obstructive rectosigmoid cancer
Slobodan Krstic, Vladimir Resanovic, Tamara Alempijevic, Aleksandar Resanovic, Ana Sijacki, Vladimir Djukic, Zlatibor Loncar, Aleksandar Karamarkovic
Resuscitative thoracotomies and open chest cardiac compressions in non-traumatic cardiac arrest
Daniel Kristoffer Kornhall, Thomas Dolven
Impact of high prevalence of pseudomonas and polymicrobial gram-negative infections in major sub-/total traumatic amputations on empiric antimicrobial therapy: a retrospective study
Moritz T Giesecke, Philipp Schwabe, Florian Wichlas, Andrej Trampuz, Christian Kleber
The HAC trial (harmonic for acute cholecystitis): a randomized, double-blind, controlled trial comparing the use of harmonic scalpel to monopolar diathermy for laparoscopic cholecystectomy in cases of acute cholecystitis
Fausto Catena, Salomone Di Saverio, Luca Ansaloni, Federico Coccolini, Massimo Sartelli, Carlo Vallicelli, Michele Cucchi, Antonio Tarasconi, Rodolfo Catena, Gian Luigi De’ Angelis, Hariscine Keng Abongwa, Daniel Lazzareschi, Antonio Pinna
Patient delay is the main cause of treatment delay in acute limb ischemia: an investigation of pre- and in-hospital time delay
Louise S Londero, Birgitte Nørgaard, Kim Houlind
World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) guidelines for management of skin and soft tissue infections
Massimo Sartelli, Mark A Malangoni, Addison K May, Pierluigi Viale, Lillian S Kao, Fausto Catena, Luca Ansaloni, Ernest E Moore, Fred A Moore, Andrew B Peitzman, Raul Coimbra, Ari Leppaniemi, Yoram Kluger, Walter Biffl, Kaoru Koike, Massimo Girardis, Carlos A Ordonez, Mario Tavola, Miguel Cainzos, Salomone Di Saverio, Gustavo P Fraga, Igor Gerych, Michael D Kelly, Korhan Taviloglu, Imtiaz Wani, Sanjay Marwah, Miklosh Bala, Wagih Ghnnam, Nissar Shaikh, Osvaldo Chiara, Mario Paulo Faro Jr, Gerson Alves Pereira Jr, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Federico Coccolini, Cristian Tranà, Davide Corbella, Pietro Brambillasca, Yunfeng Cui, Helmut A Segovia Lohse, Vladimir Khokha, Kenneth YY Kok, Suk-Kyung Hong, Kuo-Ching Yuan
Acute cholecystitis: WSES position statement
Fabio Cesare Campanile, Michele Pisano, Federico Coccolini, Fausto Catena, Ferdinando Agresta, Luca Ansaloni
Cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis. How time-critical are the so called “golden 72 hours”? Or better “golden 24 hours” and “silver 25–72 hour”? A case control study
Peter Ambe, Sebastian A Weber, Hildegard Christ, Dirk Wassenberg
Important CT findings for prediction of severe appendicitis: involvement of retroperitoneal space
Kumiko Kitaoka, Kazuhiro Saito, Koichi Tokuuye
Geriatric trauma hip fractures: is there a difference in outcomes based on fracture patterns?
Alicia Mangram, Phillip Moeser, Michael G Corneille, Laura J Prokuski, Nicolas Zhou, Jacqueline Sohn, Shalini Chaliki, Olakunle F Oguntodu, James K Dzandu
Toothpick ingestion complicated by cecal perforation: case report and literature review
Andrea Lovece, Emanuele Asti, Andrea Sironi, Luigi Bonavina
The role of emergency surgery in hydatid liver disease
Ali I Yahya, Hussen E Shwereif, Mustafa A Ekheil, Ahmed S Thoboot, Kalid A Algader, Fatma O Gyaed, Abdsalem S Aldarat
Increased of serum high-mobility group box chromosomal protein 1 correlated with intestinal mucosal barrier injury in patients with severe acute pancreatitis
Gui-fang Xu, Ming Guo, Zhi-qiang Tian, Guo-zhong Wu, Xiao-ping Zou, Wei-jie Zhang
Erratum to: emergency surgeon: “last of the mohicans” 2014–2016 editorial policy WSES-WJES: position papers, guidelines, courses, books and original research; from WJES impact factor to WSES congress impact factor
Fausto Catena, Frederick Moore, Luca Ansaloni, Ari Leppäniemi, Massimo Sartelli, Andrew B Peitzmann, Walt Biffl, Frederico Coccolini, Salomone Di Saverio, Belinda De Simone, Michele Pisano, Ernest E Moore
A prospective study of the role of sleep related disordered breathing as a risk factor for motor vehicle crashes and the development of systemic complications in non-commercial drivers
Eric D Irwin, Patricia Reicks, Alan Beal, Matthew Byrnes, Craig Matticks, Greg Beilman