2013 WSES guidelines for management of intra-abdominal infections

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Authors: Massimo Sartelli ; Pierluigi Viale ; Fausto Catena ; Luca Ansaloni ; Ernest Moore ; Mark Malangoni ; Frederick A Moore ; George Velmahos ; Raul Coimbra ; Rao Ivatury ; Andrew Peitzman ; Kaoru Koike ; Ari Leppaniemi ; Walter Biffl ; Clay Cothren Burlew ; Zsolt J Balogh ; Ken Boffard ; Cino Bendinelli ; Sanjay Gupta ; Yoram Kluger ; Ferdinando Agresta ; Salomone Di Saverio ; Imtiaz Wani ; Alex Escalona ; Carlos Ordonez ; Gustavo P Fraga ; Gerson Alves Pereira ; Miklosh Bala ; Yunfeng Cui ; Sanjay Marwah ; Boris Sakakushev ; Victor Kong ; Noel Naidoo ; Adamu Ahmed ; Ashraf Abbas ; Gianluca Guercioni ; Nereo Vettoretto ; Rafael Díaz-Nieto ; Ihor Gerych ; Cristian Tranà ; Mario Paulo Faro ; Kuo-Ching Yuan ; Kenneth Yuh Yen Kok ; Alain Chichom Mefire ; Jae Gil Lee ; Suk-Kyung Hong ; Wagih Ghnnam ; Boonying Siribumrungwong ; Norio Sato ; Kiyoshi Murata ; Takayuki Irahara ; Federico Coccolini ; Helmut A Segovia Lohse ; Alfredo Verni ; Tomohisa Shoko

Keywords: Severe Sepsis ; Diverticulitis ; Acute Cholecystitis ; TIGECYCLINE ; Open Abdomen

Abstract: Despite advances in diagnosis, surgery, and antimicrobial therapy, mortality rates associated with complicated intra-abdominal infections remain exceedingly high.The 2013 update of the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) guidelines for the management of intra-abdominal infections contains evidence-based recommendations for management of patients with intra-abdominal infections.