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ReviewWorld journal of emergency surgery : WJES2017

Management of intra-abdominal infections: recommendations by the WSES 2016 consensus conference.

Massimo Sartelli, Fausto Catena, Fikri M Abu-Zidan, Luca Ansaloni, Walter L Biffl, Marja A Boermeester, Marco Ceresoli, Osvaldo Chiara, Federico Coccolini, Jan J De Waele and 29 more

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Review in World journal of emergency surgery : WJES, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 78 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

78 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  13. Pharmacist-Led Empiric Piperacillin-Tazobactam De-escalation Among Patients With Community-Acquired Intra-abdominal Infections.The Journal of pharmacy technology : jPT : official publication of the Association of Pharmacy Technicians · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

39 authors.

Massimo SartelliDepartment of Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy.
Fausto CatenaDepartment of Emergency Surgery, Maggiore Hospital, Parma, Italy.
Fikri M Abu-ZidanDepartment of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Luca AnsaloniGeneral Surgery Department, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy.
Walter L BifflAcute Care Surgery, The Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI USA.
Marja A BoermeesterDepartment of Surgery, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Marco CeresoliDepartment of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Osvaldo ChiaraEmergency Department, Trauma Center, Niguarda Hospital, Milan, Italy.
Federico CoccoliniDepartment of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Jan J De WaeleDepartment of Critical Care Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium.
Salomone Di SaverioDepartment of Surgery, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
Christian EckmannDepartment of General, Visceral, and Thoracic Surgery, Klinikum Peine, Academic Hospital of Medical University Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
Gustavo P FragaDivision of Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
Maddalena GiannellaInfectious Diseases Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Sant'Orsola Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Massimo GirardisIntensive Care Unit, University of Modena, Modena, Italy.
Ewen A GriffithsGeneral and Upper GI Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK.
Jeffry KashukDepartment of Surgery, Assia Medical Group, Tel Aviv University Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Andrew W KirkpatrickDepartments of Surgery, Critical Care Medicine, and the Regional Trauma Service, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, AB Canada.
Vladimir KhokhaDepartment of Emergency Surgery, Mozyr City Hospital, Mozyr, Belarus.
Yoram KlugerDepartment of General Surgery, Division of Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
Francesco M LabricciosaDepartment of Biomedical Sciences and Public Health, Unit of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health, UNIVPM, Ancona, Italy.
Ari LeppaniemiAbdominal Center, University Hospital Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland.
Ronald V MaierDepartment of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA.
Addison K MayDepartments of Surgery and Anesthesiology, Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN USA.
Mark MalangoniAmerican Board of Surgery, Philadelphia, PA USA.
Ignacio Martin-LoechesMultidisciplinary Intensive Care Research Organization (MICRO), Wellcome Trust-HRB Clinical Research, Department of Clinical Medicine, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
John MazuskiDepartment of Surgery, School of Medicine, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO USA.
Philippe MontraversDépartement d'Anesthésie-Réanimation, CHU Bichat Claude-Bernard-HUPNVS, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, University Denis Diderot, Paris, France.
Andrew PeitzmanDepartment of Surgery, UPMC, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA USA.
Bruno M PereiraDivision of Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
Tarcisio ReisEmergency post-operative Department, Otavio De Freitas Hospital and Osvaldo Cruz Hospital Recife, Recife, Brazil.
Boris SakakushevGeneral Surgery Department, Medical University, University Hospital St George, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Gabriele SgangaDepartment of Surgery, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.
Kjetil SoreideDepartment of Gastrointestinal Surgery, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Michael SugrueLetterkenny University Hospital and Donegal Clinical Research Academy, Letterkenny, Ireland.
Jan Ulrych1st Department of Surgery, Department of Abdominal, Thoracic Surgery and Traumatology, General University Hospital, Praha, Czech Republic.
Jean-Louis VincentDepartment of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Pierluigi VialeInfectious Diseases Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Sant'Orsola Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Ernest E MooreDepartment of Surgery, University of Colorado, Denver, CO USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper reports on the consensus conference on the management of intra-abdominal infections (IAIs) which was held on July 23, 2016, in Dublin, Ireland, as a part of the annual World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) meeting. This document covers all aspects of the management of IAIs. The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation recommendation is used, and this document represents the executive summary of the consensus conference findings.

Indexed as

Intraabdominal InfectionsAbdominal PainAnti-Bacterial AgentsAppendectomyCholecystectomy, LaparoscopicDecision Support TechniquesDiverticulitisHumansIntra-Abdominal HypertensionLaparoscopyOrgan Dysfunction ScoresTomography, X-Ray ComputedTreatment OutcomeUltrasonographyAnti-Bacterial AgentsAntibioticsIntra-abdominal infectionsPeritonitisSepsis

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PMID28484510
PMCPMC5418731

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