Abstract

Doc number: 57

Abstract: Skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) encompass a variety of pathological conditions ranging from simple superficial infections to severe necrotizing soft tissue infections. Necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTIs) are potentially life-threatening infections of any layer of the soft tissue compartment associated with widespread necrosis and systemic toxicity. Successful management of NSTIs involves prompt recognition, timely surgical debridement or drainage, resuscitation and appropriate antibiotic therapy. A worldwide international panel of experts developed evidence-based guidelines for management of soft tissue infections. The multifaceted nature of these infections has led to a collaboration among surgeons, intensive care and infectious diseases specialists, who have shared these guidelines, implementing clinical practice recommendations.

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Title
World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) guidelines for management of skin and soft tissue infections
Author
Sartelli, Massimo; Malangoni, Mark A; May, Addison K; Viale, Pierluigi; Kao, Lillian S; Catena, Fausto; Ansaloni, Luca; Moore, Ernest E; Moore, Fred A; Peitzman, Andrew B; Coimbra, Raul; Leppaniemi, Ari; Kluger, Yoram; Biffl, Walter; Koike, Kaoru; Girardis, Massimo; Ordonez, Carlos A; Tavola, Mario; Cainzos, Miguel; Di Saverio, Salomone; Fraga, Gustavo P; Gerych, Igor; Kelly, Michael D; Taviloglu, Korhan; Wani, Imtiaz; Marwah, Sanjay; Bala, Miklosh; Ghnnam, Wagih; Shaikh, Nissar; Chiara, Osvaldo; Faro Jr, Mario Paulo; Pereira Jr, Gerson Alves; Gomes, Carlos Augusto; Coccolini, Federico; Tranà, Cristian; Corbella, Davide; Brambillasca, Pietro; Cui, Yunfeng; Segovia Lohse, Helmut A; Khokha, Vladimir; Kok, Kenneth YY; Hong, Suk-Kyung; Yuan, Kuo-Ching
Publication year
2014
Publication date
2014
Publisher
BioMed Central
e-ISSN
17497922
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-9-57
ProQuest document ID
1626889724
Copyright
© 2014 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/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. 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.