WSES guidelines for emergency repair of complicated abdominal wall hernias

Massimo Sartelli; Federico Coccolini; Gabrielle H van Ramshorst; Giampiero Campanelli; Vincenzo Mandalà; Luca Ansaloni; Ernest E Moore; Andrew Peitzman; George Velmahos; Fredrick Alan Moore; Ari Leppaniemi; Clay Cothren Burlew; Walter Biffl; Kaoru Koike; Yoram Kluger; Gustavo P Fraga; Carlos A Ordonez; Salomone Di Saverio; Ferdinando Agresta; Boris Sakakushev; Igor Gerych; Imtiaz Wani; Michael D Kelly; Carlos Augusto Gomes; Mario Paulo Faro Jr; Korhan Taviloglu; Zaza Demetrashvili; Jae Gil Lee; Nereo Vettoretto; Gianluca Guercioni; Cristian Tranà; Yunfeng Cui; Kenneth Yy Kok; Wagih M Ghnnam; Ashraf El-Sayed Abbas; Norio Sato; Sanjay Marwah; Muthukumaran Rangarajan; Offir Ben-Ishay; Abdul Rashid K Adesunkanmi; Helmut Alfredo Segovia Lohse; Jakub Kenig; Stefano Mandalà; Andrea Patrizi; Rodolfo Scibé; Fausto Catena

doi:10.1186/1749-7922-8-50

WSES guidelines for emergency repair of complicated abdominal wall hernias

World J Emerg Surg. 2013 Dec 1;8(1):50. doi: 10.1186/1749-7922-8-50.

Authors

Massimo Sartelli¹, Federico Coccolini, Gabrielle H van Ramshorst, Giampiero Campanelli, Vincenzo Mandalà, Luca Ansaloni, Ernest E Moore, Andrew Peitzman, George Velmahos, Fredrick Alan Moore, Ari Leppaniemi, Clay Cothren Burlew, Walter Biffl, Kaoru Koike, Yoram Kluger, Gustavo P Fraga, Carlos A Ordonez, Salomone Di Saverio, Ferdinando Agresta, Boris Sakakushev, Igor Gerych, Imtiaz Wani, Michael D Kelly, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Mario Paulo Faro Jr, Korhan Taviloglu, Zaza Demetrashvili, Jae Gil Lee, Nereo Vettoretto, Gianluca Guercioni, Cristian Tranà, Yunfeng Cui, Kenneth Yy Kok, Wagih M Ghnnam, Ashraf El-Sayed Abbas, Norio Sato, Sanjay Marwah, Muthukumaran Rangarajan, Offir Ben-Ishay, Abdul Rashid K Adesunkanmi, Helmut Alfredo Segovia Lohse, Jakub Kenig, Stefano Mandalà, Andrea Patrizi, Rodolfo Scibé, Fausto Catena

Affiliation

¹ Department of Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy. m.sartelli@virgilio.it.

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.