Issue 1/2020
Content (61 Articles)
Timing of early laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute calculous cholecystitis revised: Protocol of a systematic review and meta-analysis of results
Giuseppe Borzellino, Safi Khuri, Michele Pisano, Subhi Mansour, Niccolò Allievi, Luca Ansaloni, Yoram Kluger
The Operative management in Bariatric Acute abdomen (OBA) Survey: long-term complications of bariatric surgery and the emergency surgeon’s point of view
Belinda De Simone, Luca Ansaloni, Massimo Sartelli, Yoram Kluger, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Walter L. Biffl, Arianna Heyer, Federico Coccolini, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Fabio Cesare Campanile, Dente Mario, Asnat Raziel, Alberto Zaccaroni, Antonio Tarasconi, Alessandro Dazzi, Konstantinos Lasithiotakisi, Stefano Maccatrozzo, Orestis Ioannidis, Francesco Pata, Maciej Walędziak, Agron Dogjani, Affirul Chairil Ariffin, Vladimir Khokha, Ling Kho, Boris Kessel, Ionut Negoi, Eftychios Lostoridis, Luigi Conti, Luca Ponchietti, Francesco Saverio Papadia, Giorgio Ghilardi, Valentin Calu, Tuna Bilecik, Berhanu N. Alemu, Martin Reichert, Martin Hutan, Charalampos Seretis, Moldovanu Radu, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Faruk Karateke, Vinicius Cordeiro da Fonseca, Arda Isik, Ioannis Nikolopoulos, Anfrii Fomin, Wagih Ghnnam, Ruslan Sydorchuk, Ciro Paolillo, Andrea Sagnotta, Leonardo Solaini, Robert G. Sawyer, David A. Spain, Michael McFarlane, Catherine Arvieux, Andrey Litvin, Bruno M. Pereira, Teresa Giménez Maurel, Andrea Barberis, Mahir Gachabayov, Donal B. O’Connor, Daniel Rios Cruz, Elif Colak, Cristian Mesina, Ramiro Manzano-Nunez, Tadeja Pintar, Renol Koshy, Georgios Triantos, Subash Gautam, Ali Guner, Zaza Demetrashvili, Carlos A. Ordoñez, Dimitrios K. Manatakis, Massimo Chiarugi, Luis Buonomo, Piotr Major, Hecker Andreas, Derek J. Roberts, Jill R. Cherry-Bukowiec, Koray Das, Andrea Costanzi, Harry van Goor, Kenneth Y. Y. Kok, Aleix Martínez-Pérez, Roberta Villa, Luca Fattori, Gabriela Elisa Nita, Dimitrios Damaskos, Kuo-Ching Yuan, Aintzane Lizarazu, Michael Denis Kelly, Isidoro Di Carlo, Marco Ceresoli, Raffaele Galleano, Christos Chatzakis, Miklosh Bala, Frank Piscioneri, Stefano Bonilauri, Helmut Alfredo Segovia Lohse, Dmitry Smirnov, Dennis Kim, Francesca Martina, Giovanni Bruni, Giampiero Campanelli, Marta Cavalli, Victor Kong, Nickos Michalopoulos, Yunfeng Cui, Michele Diana, Fausto Catena
Perforated and bleeding peptic ulcer: WSES guidelines
Antonio Tarasconi, Federico Coccolini, Walter L. Biffl, Matteo Tomasoni, Luca Ansaloni, Edoardo Picetti, Sarah Molfino, Vishal Shelat, Stefania Cimbanassi, Dieter G. Weber, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Fabio C. Campanile, Salomone Di Saverio, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Claudio Casella, Michael D. Kelly, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Ari Leppaniemi, Ernest E. Moore, Andrew Peitzman, Gustavo Pereira Fraga, Marco Ceresoli, Ronald V. Maier, Imtaz Wani, Vittoria Pattonieri, Gennaro Perrone, George Velmahos, Michael Sugrue, Massimo Sartelli, Yoram Kluger, Fausto Catena
Time is of the essence when treating necrotizing soft tissue infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Femke Nawijn, Diederik P. J. Smeeing, Roderick M. Houwert, Luke P. H. Leenen, Falco Hietbrink
Cross-sectional imaging of the torso reveals occult injuries in asymptomatic blunt trauma patients
Gregory J. Roberts, Lewis E. Jacobson, Michelle M. Amaral, Courtney D. Jensen, Louis Cooke, Jacqueline F. Schultz, Alexander J. Kinstedt, Jonathan M. Saxe
Long-term outcomes in major trauma patients and correlations with the acute phase
Costanza Martino, Emanuele Russo, Domenico Pietro Santonastaso, Emiliano Gamberini, Silvia Bertoni, Emanuele Padovani, Luigino Tosatto, Luca Ansaloni, Vanni Agnoletti
Early administration of fibrinogen concentrate is associated with improved survival among severe trauma patients: a single-centre propensity score-matched analysis
Yuki Itagaki, Mineji Hayakawa, Kunihiko Maekawa, Tomoyo Saito, Akira Kodate, Yoshinori Honma, Asumi Mizugaki, Tomonao Yoshida, Takayoshi Ohyasu, Kenichi Katabami, Takeshi Wada
Associated abdominal injuries do not influence quality of care in pelvic fractures—a multicenter cohort study from the German Pelvic Registry
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, Fabian M. Stuby
Correction to: The Operative management in Bariatric Acute abdomen (OBA) Survey: long-term complications of bariatric surgery and the emergency surgeon’s point of view
Belinda De Simone, Luca Ansaloni, Massimo Sartelli, Yoram Kluger, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Walter L. Biffl, Arianna Heyer, Federico Coccolini, Gian Luca Baiocchi, F. C. Campanile, D. Mario, A. Raziel, A. Zaccaroni, A. Tarasconi, A. Dazzi, K. Lasithiotakisi, S. Maccatrozzo, O. Ioannidis, F. Pata, M. Walędziak, A. Dogjani, A. C. Ariffin, V. Khokha, L. Kho, B. Kessel, I. Negoi, E. Lostoridis, L. Conti, L. Ponchietti, F. S. Papadia, G. Ghilardi, V. Calu, T. Bilecik, B. N. Alemu, M. Reichert, M. Hutan, C. Seretis, M. Radu, C. A. Gomes, F. Karateke, V. C. da Fonseca, A. Isik, I. Nikolopoulos, A. Fomin, W. Ghnnam, R. Sydorchuk, C. Paolillo, A. Sagnotta, L. Solaini, R. G. Sawyer, D. A. Spain, M. McFarlane, C. Arvieux, A. Litvin, B. M. Pereira, T. G. Maurel, A. Barberis, M. Gachabayov, D. B. O’Connor, D. R. Cruz, E. Colak, C. Mesina, R. Manzano-Nunez, T. Pintar, R. Koshy, G. Triantos, S. Gautam, A. Guner, Z. Demetrashvili, C. A. Ordoñez, D. K. Manatakis, M. Chiarugi, L. Buonomo, P. Major, H. Andreas, D. J. Roberts, J. R. Cherry-Bukowiec, K. Das, A. Costanzi, H. van Goor, K. Y. Y. Kok, A. Martínez-Pérez, R. Villa, L. Fattori, G. E. Nita, D. Damaskos, K. C. Yuan, A. Lizarazu, M. D. Kelly, I. D. Carlo, M. Ceresoli, R. Galleano, C. Chatzakis, M. Bala, F. Piscioneri, S. Bonilauri, H. A. S. Lohse, D. Smirnov, D. Kim, F. Martina, G. Bruni, G. Campanelli, M. Cavalli, V. Kong, N. Michalopoulos, Y. Cui, M. Diana, Fausto Catena
Intraoperative surgical site infection control and prevention: a position paper and future addendum to WSES intra-abdominal infections guidelines
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, Gustavo Fraga, Salomone Di Saverio, Dieter Weber, Boris Sakakushev, Osvaldo Chiara, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Richard ten Broek, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Imtiaz Wani, Raul Coimbra, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Micheal D. Kelly, Luca Ansaloni, Fausto Catena
Emergency general surgeons: the special forces of general surgery (the “navy seals paradigm”)
Fausto Catena, Walter Biffl, Belinda De Simone, Massimo Sartelli, Salomone Di Saverio, Yoram Kluger, Ernest E. Moore, Luca Ansaloni, Federico Coccolini
A proposal for a comprehensive approach to infections across the surgical pathway
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, Valentina Cola, Daniela Corsi, Francesco Cortese, Massimo Crapis, Francesco Cristini, Alessandro D’Arpino, Belinda De Simone, Stefano Di Bella, Francesco Di Marzo, Abele Donati, Daniele Elisei, Massimo Fantoni, Anna Ferrari, Domitilla Foghetti, Daniela Francisci, Gianni Gattuso, Andrea Giacometti, Guido Cesare Gesuelli, Cristina Marmorale, Enrica Martini, Marcello Meledandri, Rita Murri, Daniela Padrini, Dalia Palmieri, Paola Pauri, Carla Rebagliati, Enrico Ricchizzi, Vittorio Sambri, Anna Maria Schimizzi, Walter Siquini, Loredana Scoccia, Giancarlo Scoppettuolo, Gabriele Sganga, Nadia Storti, Marcello Tavio, Giulio Toccafondi, Fabio Tumietto, Bruno Viaggi, Marco Vivarelli, Cristian Tranà, Melina Raso, Francesco Maria Labricciosa, Sameer Dhingra, Fausto Catena
Protocol for a parallel economic evaluation of a trial comparing two surgical strategies in severe complicated intra-abdominal sepsis: the COOL-cost study
Joshua S. Ng-Kamstra, Elissa Rennert-May, Jessica McKee, Skyla Lundgren, Braden Manns, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick
Single segment of spleen autotransplantation, after splenectomy for trauma, can restore splenic functions
Adriana Toro, Nunziatina Laura Parrinello, Elena Schembari, Maurizio Mannino, Giuseppe Corsale, Anna Triolo, Filippo Palermo, Alessandra Romano, Francesco Di Raimondo, Isidoro Di Carlo
Motorcycle-related trauma:effects of age and site of injuries on mortality. A single-center, retrospective study.
Stefano S. Granieri, Elisa E. Reitano, Francesca F. Bindi, Federica F. Renzi, Fabrizio F. Sammartano, Stefania S. Cimbanassi, Shailvi S. Gupta, Osvaldo O. Chiara
The SIFIPAC/WSES/SICG/SIMEU guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis in the elderly (2019 edition)
Paola Fugazzola, Marco Ceresoli, Vanni Agnoletti, Ferdinando Agresta, Bruno Amato, Paolo Carcoforo, Fausto Catena, Osvaldo Chiara, Massimo Chiarugi, Lorenzo Cobianchi, Federico Coccolini, Alessandro De Troia, Salomone Di Saverio, Andrea Fabbri, Carlo Feo, Francesco Gabrielli, Angela Gurrado, Angelo Guttadauro, Leonardo Leone, Daniele Marrelli, Luca Petruzzelli, Nazario Portolani, Francesco Paolo Prete, Alessandro Puzziello, Massimo Sartelli, Giorgio Soliani, Mario Testini, Salvatore Tolone, Matteo Tomasoni, Gregorio Tugnoli, Pierluigi Viale, Monica Zese, Offir Ben Ishay, Yoram Kluger, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Luca Ansaloni
Comparison between simple triage and rapid treatment and Taiwan Triage and Acuity Scale for the emergency department triage of victims following an earthquake-related mass casualty incident: a retrospective cohort study
Yun-Kuan Lin, Kuang-Yu Niu, Chen-June Seak, Yi-Ming Weng, Jen-Hung Wang, Pei-Fang Lai
Open necrosectomy in acute pancreatitis–obsolete or still useful?
Henrik Leonard Husu, Jouni Antero Kuronen, Ari Kalevi Leppäniemi, Panu Juhani Mentula
Association of pre-operative chronic kidney disease and acute kidney injury with in-hospital outcomes of emergency colorectal surgery: a cohort study
Katsunori Miyake, Masao Iwagami, Takayasu Ohtake, Hidekazu Moriya, Nao Kume, Takaaki Murata, Tomoki Nishida, Yasuhiro Mochida, Naoko Isogai, Kunihiro Ishioka, Rai Shimoyama, Sumi Hidaka, Hiroyuki Kashiwagi, Jun Kawachi, Hidemitsu Ogino, Shuzo Kobayashi
Pre-hospital CPR and early REBOA in trauma patients — results from the ABOTrauma Registry
Peter Hilbert-Carius, David T. McGreevy, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Tal M. Hörer, D. T. McGreevy, P. Hilbert-Carius, F. M. Abu-Zidan, T. M. Hörer, M. Sadeghi, A. Pirouzram, A. Toivola, P. Skoog, K. Idoguchi, Y. Kon, T. Ishida, Y. Matsumura, J. Matsumoto, M. Maszkowski, A. Bersztel, E. C. Caragounis, M. Falkenberg, L. Handolin, S. W. Chang, B. Kessel, D. Hebron, G. Shaked, M. Bala, F. Coccolini, L. Ansaloni, T. Larzon, K. F. Nilsson
Liver trauma: WSES 2020 guidelines
Federico Coccolini, Raul Coimbra, Carlos Ordonez, Yoram Kluger, Felipe Vega, Ernest E. Moore, Walt Biffl, Andrew Peitzman, Tal Horer, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Massimo Sartelli, Gustavo P. Fraga, Enrico Cicuttin, Luca Ansaloni, Michael W. Parra, Mauricio Millán, Nicola DeAngelis, Kenji Inaba, George Velmahos, Ron Maier, Vladimir Khokha, Boris Sakakushev, Goran Augustin, Salomone di Saverio, Emanuil Pikoulis, Mircea Chirica, Viktor Reva, Ari Leppaniemi, Vassil Manchev, Massimo Chiarugi, Dimitrios Damaskos, Dieter Weber, Neil Parry, Zaza Demetrashvili, Ian Civil, Lena Napolitano, Davide Corbella, Fausto Catena, Hany Bahouth, Matti Tolonen, Paola Fugazzola, Jose Julian Serna, Fernando Rodriguez, Alberto F. García, Adolfo Gonzalez, Luis Fernando Pino, Mónica Guzmán-Rodríguez, Bruno M. Pereira, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Alain Chichom Mefire, Antonio Tarasconi, Osvaldo Chiara, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Joseph Galante, Miklosh Bala, Paola Perfetti, Fernando Machado, Oreste Romeo, Francesco Salvetti, Lorenzo Ghiadoni, Francesco Forfori, Paolo Malacarne, Silvia Pini, Marsia Pucciarelli, Marco Ceresoli, Catherine Arvieux, Denis Khokha, David A. Spain, Arda Isik
Surgery in COVID-19 patients: operational directives
Federico Coccolini, Gennaro Perrone, Massimo Chiarugi, Francesco Di Marzo, Luca Ansaloni, Ildo Scandroglio, Pierluigi Marini, Mauro Zago, Paolo De Paolis, Francesco Forfori, Ferdinando Agresta, Alessandro Puzziello, Domenico D’Ugo, Elena Bignami, Valentina Bellini, Pietro Vitali, Flavia Petrini, Barbara Pifferi, Francesco Corradi, Antonio Tarasconi, Vittoria Pattonieri, Elena Bonati, Luigi Tritapepe, Vanni Agnoletti, Davide Corbella, Massimo Sartelli, Fausto Catena
COVID-19 the showdown for mass casualty preparedness and management: the Cassandra Syndrome
Federico Coccolini, Massimo Sartelli, Yoram Kluger, Emmanouil Pikoulis, Evika Karamagioli, Ernest E. Moore, Walter L. Biffl, Andrew Peitzman, Andreas Hecker, Mircea Chirica, Dimitrios Damaskos, Carlos Ordonez, Felipe Vega, Gustavo P. Fraga, Massimo Chiarugi, Salomone Di Saverio, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Fikri Abu-Zidan, Alain Chicom Mefire, Ari Leppaniemi, Vladimir Khokha, Boris Sakakushev, Rodolfo Catena, Raul Coimbra, Luca Ansaloni, Davide Corbella, Fausto Catena
Diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis: 2020 update of the WSES Jerusalem guidelines
Salomone Di Saverio, Mauro Podda, Belinda De Simone, Marco Ceresoli, Goran Augustin, Alice Gori, Marja Boermeester, Massimo Sartelli, Federico Coccolini, Antonio Tarasconi, Nicola de’ Angelis, Dieter G. Weber, Matti Tolonen, Arianna Birindelli, Walter Biffl, Ernest E. Moore, Michael Kelly, Kjetil Soreide, Jeffry Kashuk, Richard Ten Broek, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Michael Sugrue, Richard Justin Davies, Dimitrios Damaskos, Ari Leppäniemi, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Andrew B. Peitzman, Gustavo P. Fraga, Ronald V. Maier, Raul Coimbra, Massimo Chiarugi, Gabriele Sganga, Adolfo Pisanu, Gian Luigi de’ Angelis, Edward Tan, Harry Van Goor, Francesco Pata, Isidoro Di Carlo, Osvaldo Chiara, Andrey Litvin, Fabio C. Campanile, Boris Sakakushev, Gia Tomadze, Zaza Demetrashvili, Rifat Latifi, Fakri Abu-Zidan, Oreste Romeo, Helmut Segovia-Lohse, Gianluca Baiocchi, David Costa, Sandro Rizoli, Zsolt J. Balogh, Cino Bendinelli, Thomas Scalea, Rao Ivatury, George Velmahos, Roland Andersson, Yoram Kluger, Luca Ansaloni, Fausto Catena
Hey surgeons! It is time to lead and be a champion in preventing and managing surgical infections!
Massimo Sartelli, Federico Coccolini, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Luca Ansaloni, Stefano Bartoli, Walter Biffl, Felice Borghi, Elie Chouillard, Yunfeng Cui, Rafael De Oliveira Nascimento, Belinda De Simone, Salomone Di Saverio, Therese Duane, Christian Eckmann, Hani O. Eid, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Felipe Couto Gomes, Andreas Hecker, Birgit Hecker, Arda Isik, Kamal M. F. Itani, Ari Leppaniemi, Andrey Litvin, Davide Luppi, Ronald Maier, Ramiro Manzano-Nunez, Sanjay Marwah, John Mazuski, Ernest Moore, Gennaro Perrone, Kemal Rasa, Ines Rubio, Robert Sawyer, Francesco M. Labricciosa, Fausto Catena
Salvage use of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in the setting of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) due to COVID-19 in the USA: a Markov decision analysis
Rashikh Choudhury, Christopher D. Barrett, Hunter B. Moore, Ernest E. Moore, Robert C. McIntyre, Peter K. Moore, Daniel S. Talmor, Trevor L. Nydam, Michael B. Yaffe
Randomized control trial comparing an Alvarado Score-based management algorithm and current best practice in the evaluation of suspected appendicitis
Winson Jianhong Tan, Sanchalika Acharyya, Min Hoe Chew, Fung Joon Foo, Weng Hoong Chan, Wai Keong Wong, London Lucien Ooi, Jeremy Chung Fai Ng, Hock Soo Ong
Trauma induced clotting factor depletion in severely injured children: a single center observational study
Manuel Burggraf, Christina Polan, Martin Husen, Bastian Mester, Alexander Wegner, Daniel Spodeck, Marcel Dudda, Max Daniel Kauther
2020 update of the WSES guidelines for the management of acute colonic diverticulitis in the emergency setting
Massimo Sartelli, Dieter G. Weber, Yoram Kluger, Luca Ansaloni, Federico Coccolini, Fikri Abu-Zidan, Goran Augustin, Offir Ben-Ishay, Walter L. Biffl, Konstantinos Bouliaris, Rodolfo Catena, Marco Ceresoli, Osvaldo Chiara, Massimo Chiarugi, Raul Coimbra, Francesco Cortese, Yunfeng Cui, Dimitris Damaskos, Gian Luigi de’ Angelis, Samir Delibegovic, Zaza Demetrashvili, Belinda De Simone, Francesco Di Marzo, Salomone Di Saverio, Therese M. Duane, Mario Paulo Faro, Gustavo P. Fraga, George Gkiokas, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Timothy C. Hardcastle, Andreas Hecker, Aleksandar Karamarkovic, Jeffry Kashuk, Vladimir Khokha, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Kenneth Y. Y. Kok, Kenji Inaba, Arda Isik, Francesco M. Labricciosa, Rifat Latifi, Ari Leppäniemi, Andrey Litvin, John E. Mazuski, Ronald V. Maier, Sanjay Marwah, Michael McFarlane, Ernest E. Moore, Frederick A. Moore, Ionut Negoi, Leonardo Pagani, Kemal Rasa, Ines Rubio-Perez, Boris Sakakushev, Norio Sato, Gabriele Sganga, Walter Siquini, Antonio Tarasconi, Matti Tolonen, Jan Ulrych, Sannop K. Zachariah, Fausto Catena
Emergency trauma care during the outbreak of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China
Yang Li, Ling Zeng, Zhanfei Li, Qingxiang Mao, Ding Liu, Letian Zhang, Huayu Zhang, Yu Xie, Guo Liu, Xiaoqin Gan, Fan Yang, Siru Zhou, Shanmu Ai, Hao Tang, Qiu Zhong, Hongxiang Lu, Huacai Zhang, Tomer Talmy, Weiguo Zhang, Liyong Chen, Xiangjun Bai, Jianxin Jiang, Lianyang Zhang
Which appendicitis scoring system is most suitable for pregnant patients? A comparison of nine different systems
Baris Mantoglu, Emre Gonullu, Yesim Akdeniz, Merve Yigit, Necattin Firat, Emrah Akin, Fatih Altintoprak, Unal Erkorkmaz
Reduction of pedestrian death rates: a missed global target
Yasin J. Yasin, Michal Grivna, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan
Emergency general surgery in Italy during the COVID-19 outbreak: first survey from the real life
Alberto Patriti, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Fausto Catena, Pierluigi Marini, Marco Catarci, Di Venere Beatrice, Sallustio Pierluca Nicola Massimo, Siquini Walter, Sorrentino Mario, Polastri Roberto, Armellino Mariano Fortunato, Scatizzi Marco, Giuliani Antonio, Maggioni Dario, Rizzi Andrea, Bonilauri Stefano, Cimino Giuseppe, Contine Alessandro, Borghi Felice, Parisi Amilcare, Longo Graziano, De Luca Stefano, Testa Silvio, Elio Amedeo, Bellochi Raffaele, Boncompagni Michela, Delogu Leonardo Andrea, Gattolin Andrea, Santi Stefano, Agresta Ferdinando, Bottino Vincenzo, Ubiali Paolo, Scuderi Vincenzo, Verzelli Augusto, Cicetti Moreno, Clementi Marco, Annesi Matteo, Stracqualursi Antonio, Sarro Giuliano, Coletta Pietro, Spaziani Alessandro, Pernazza Graziano, Castaldo Pasquale, Spampinato Marcello Giuseppe, Bartoli Alberto, Tirrò Antonino, Cocozza Eugenio, Ferrero Alessandro, Berti Stefano, Perrotta Michele, De Manzini Nicolò, Castagnoli Giampaolo, Celi Daniele, Taglietti Lucio, Vettoretto Nereo, Rabuini Claudio, Santarelli Mauro, Kiss Alberto, Vicentini Roberto, Risio Domenico, Bazzi Piero, Cillara Nicola, Cuticone Giuseppe, Miconi Guglielmo, Cesari Maurizio, Ciaccio Giovanni, Iarrobino Gianfausto, Gambardella Denise, Ceccarelli Graziano, Bordoni Pierpaolo, Isolani Simone Mario
Minimally invasive laparoscopic and robot-assisted emergency treatment of strangulated giant hiatal hernias: report of five cases and literature review
Graziano Ceccarelli, Alessandro Pasculli, Walter Bugiantella, Michele De Rosa, Fausto Catena, Fabio Rondelli, Gianluca Costa, Aldo Rocca, Mattia Longaroni, Mario Testini
Acute cholecystitis during COVID-19 pandemic: a multisocietary position statement
Fabio Cesare Campanile, Mauro Podda, Alberto Arezzo, Emanuele Botteri, Alberto Sartori, Mario Guerrieri, Elisa Cassinotti, Irnerio Muttillo, Marcello Pisano, Riccardo Brachet Contul, Giancarlo D’Ambrosio, Diego Cuccurullo, Carlo Bergamini, Marco Ettore Allaix, Valerio Caracino, Wanda Luisa Petz, Marco Milone, Gianfranco Silecchia, Gabriele Anania, Antonino Agrusa, Salomone Di Saverio, Salvatore Casarano, Caterina Cicala, Piero Narilli, Sara Federici, Massimo Carlini, Alessandro Paganini, Paolo Pietro Bianchi, Adelona Salaj, Andrea Mazzari, Roberto Luca Meniconi, Alessandro Puzziello, Giovanni Terrosu, Belinda De Simone, Federico Coccolini, Fausto Catena, Ferdinando Agresta
WSES guidelines updates
Marco Ceresoli, Federico Coccolini, Walter L. Biffl, Massimo Sartelli, Luca Ansaloni, Ernest E. Moore, Salomone Di Saverio, Yoram Kluger, Fausto Catena
Predictors of mortality following emergency open colectomy for ischemic colitis: a single-center experience
Nassiba Beghdadi, Elisa Reitano, Frederic Cochennec, Pascal Desgranges, Aurelien Amiot, Iradj Sobhani, Nicolas Mongardon, Olivier Langeron, Margherita Notarnicola, Sébastien Mulé, Alain Luciani, Florence Canoui-Poitrine, Alexis Laurent, Daniele Sommacale, Francesco Brunetti, Nicola de’ Angelis
Iron metabolism and lymphocyte characterisation during Covid-19 infection in ICU patients: an observational cohort study
Giuliano Bolondi, Emanuele Russo, Emiliano Gamberini, Alessandro Circelli, Manlio Cosimo Claudio Meca, Etrusca Brogi, Lorenzo Viola, Luca Bissoni, Venerino Poletti, Vanni Agnoletti
Laparoscopic transhiatal suture and gastric valve as a safe and feasible treatment for Boerhaave’s syndrome: an Italian single center case series study
A. Veltri, J. Weindelmayer, L. Alberti, C. A. De Pasqual, M. Bencivenga, S. Giacopuzzi
Histopathological findings in a COVID-19 patient affected by ischemic gangrenous cholecystitis
Andrea Bruni, Eugenio Garofalo, Valeria Zuccalà, Giuseppe Currò, Carlo Torti, Giuseppe Navarra, Giovambattista De Sarro, Paolo Navalesi, Federico Longhini, Michele Ammendola
Open necrosectomy is feasible as a last resort in selected cases with infected pancreatic necrosis: a case series and systematic literature review
Lucia Ilaria Sgaramella, Angela Gurrado, Alessandro Pasculli, Francesco Paolo Prete, Fausto Catena, Mario Testini
Analysis of risk factors in thoracic trauma patients with a comparison of a modern trauma centre: a mono-centre study
Morris Beshay, Fritz Mertzlufft, Hans Werner Kottkamp, Marc Reymond, Ralph Alexander Schmid, Detlev Branscheid, Thomas Vordemvenne
Grade III blunt splenic injury without contrast extravasation - World Society of Emergency Surgery Nijmegen consensus practice
Francesco Amico, Rebecca Anning, Cino Bendinelli, Zsolt J. Balogh, Ari Leppäniemi, Daniel Aparicio-Sánchez, Erik Hermans, Federico Coccolini, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Massimo Chiarugi, Catherine Arvieux, Giovanni Pirozzolo, Vladimir Khokha, Matti Tolonen, Tan Edward, Michael Sugrue, Marco Ceresoli, Måns Muhrbeck, Rajashekar Mohan, Frank Piscioneri, Giuseppe Ietto, Osvaldo Chiara, Fausto Catena
Training to identify red flags in the acute care of trauma: who are the patients at risk for early death despite a relatively good prognosis? An analysis from the TraumaRegister DGU®
Philip-C. Nolte, David Häske, Rolf Lefering, Michael Bernhard, Sebastian Casu, Susanne Frankenhauser, Andreas Gather, Paul A. Grützner, Matthias Münzberg
Pelvic injury prognosis is more closely related to vascular injury severity than anatomical fracture complexity: the WSES classification for pelvic trauma makes sense
Yu-Tung Wu, Chi-Tung Cheng, Yu-San Tee, Chih-Yuan Fu, Chien-Hung Liao, Chi-Hsun Hsieh
Trauma system developments reduce mortality in hospitalized trauma patients in Al-Ain City, United Arab Emirates, despite increased severity of injury
David O. Alao, Arif Alper Cevik, Hani O. Eid, Zia Jummani, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan
Trends and outcomes of blunt renal trauma management: a nationwide cohort study in Japan
Shunichiro Nakao, Yusuke Katayama, Atsushi Hirayama, Tomoya Hirose, Kenichiro Ishida, Yutaka Umemura, Jotaro Tachino, Takeyuki Kiguchi, Tasuku Matsuyama, Kosuke Kiyohara, Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Yuko Nakagawa, Takeshi Shimazu
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in trauma patients: a systematic review
Changtian Wang, Lei Zhang, Tao Qin, Zhilong Xi, Lei Sun, Haiwei Wu, Demin Li
Using the Red Cross wound classification to predict treatment needs in children with conflict-related limb injuries: a retrospective database study
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