Abstract

Doc number: 50

Abstract: Emergency repair of complicated abdominal hernias is associated with poor prognosis and a high rate of post-operative complications.

A World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) Consensus Conference was held in Bergamo in July 2013, during the 2nd Congress of the World Society of Emergency Surgery with the goal of defining recommendations for emergency repair of abdominal wall hernias in adults. This document represents the executive summary of the consensus conference approved by a WSES expert panel.

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Title
WSES guidelines for emergency repair of complicated abdominal wall hernias
Author
Sartelli, Massimo; Coccolini, Federico; van Ramshorst, Gabrielle H; Campanelli, Giampiero; Mandalà, Vincenzo; Ansaloni, Luca; Moore, Ernest E; Peitzman, Andrew; Velmahos, George; Moore, Fredrick Alan; Leppaniemi, Ari; Burlew, Clay Cothren; Biffl, Walter; Koike, Kaoru; Kluger, Yoram; Fraga, Gustavo P; Ordonez, Carlos A; Di Saverio, Salomone; Agresta, Ferdinando; Sakakushev, Boris; Gerych, Igor; Wani, Imtiaz; Kelly, Michael D; Gomes, Carlos Augusto; Faro, Mario Paulo, Jr; Taviloglu, Korhan; Demetrashvili, Zaza; Lee, Jae Gil; Vettoretto, Nereo; Guercioni, Gianluca; Tranà, Cristian; Cui, Yunfeng; Kok, Kenneth YY; Ghnnam, Wagih M; Abbas, Ashraf El-Sayed; Sato, Norio; Marwah, Sanjay; Rangarajan, Muthukumaran; Ben-Ishay, Offir; Adesunkanmi, Abdul Rashid K; Segovia Lohse, Helmut Alfredo; Kenig, Jakub; Mandalà, Stefano; Patrizi, Andrea; Scibé, Rodolfo; Catena, Fausto
Publication year
2013
Publication date
2013
Publisher
BioMed Central
e-ISSN
17497922
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-8-50
ProQuest document ID
1465618433
Copyright
© 2013 Sartelli et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.