WSES guidelines on blunt and penetrating bowel injury: diagnosis, investigations, and treatment
Luke Smyth, Cino Bendinelli, Nicholas Lee, Matthew G. Reeds, Eu Jhin Loh, Francesco Amico, Zsolt J. Balogh, Salomone Di Saverio, Dieter Weber, Richard Peter ten Broek, Fikri M. Abu‐Zidan, Giampiero Campanelli, Solomon Gurmu Beka, Massimo Chiarugi, Vishal G. Shelat, Edward Tan, Ernest E. Moore, Luigi Bonavina, Rifat Latifi, Andreas Hecker, Jim Khan, Raúl Coimbra, Giovanni Domenico Tebala, Kjetil Søreide, Imtiaz Wani, Kenji Inaba, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Kaoru Koike, Gabriele Sganga, Walter L. Biffl, Osvaldo Chiara, Thomas M. Scalea, Gustavo Pereira Fraga, Andrew B. Peitzman, Fausto Catena
Abstract
The aim of this paper was to review the recent literature to create recommendations for the day-to-day diagnosis and surgical management of small bowel and colon injuries. Where knowledge gaps were identified, expert consensus was pursued during the 8th International Congress of the World Society of Emergency Surgery Annual (September 2021, Edinburgh). This process also aimed to guide future research.