World Journal of Emergency Surgery (Oct 2023)

Enhanced perioperative care in emergency general surgery: the WSES position paper

  • Marco Ceresoli,
  • Marco Braga,
  • Nicola Zanini,
  • Fikri M. Abu-Zidan,
  • Dario Parini,
  • Thomas Langer,
  • Massimo Sartelli,
  • Dimitrios Damaskos,
  • Walter L. Biffl,
  • Francesco Amico,
  • Luca Ansaloni,
  • Zsolt J. Balogh,
  • Luigi Bonavina,
  • Ian Civil,
  • Enrico Cicuttin,
  • Mircea Chirica,
  • Yunfeng Cui,
  • Belinda De Simone,
  • Isidoro Di Carlo,
  • Andreas Fette,
  • Giuseppe Foti,
  • Michele Fogliata,
  • Gustavo P. Fraga,
  • Paola Fugazzola,
  • Joseph M. Galante,
  • Solomon Gurmu Beka,
  • Andreas Hecker,
  • Johannes Jeekel,
  • Andrew W. Kirkpatrick,
  • Kaoru Koike,
  • Ari Leppäniemi,
  • Ingo Marzi,
  • Ernest E. Moore,
  • Edoardo Picetti,
  • Emmanouil Pikoulis,
  • Michele Pisano,
  • Mauro Podda,
  • Boris E. Sakakushev,
  • Vishal G. Shelat,
  • Edward Tan,
  • Giovanni D. Tebala,
  • George Velmahos,
  • Dieter G. Weber,
  • Vanni Agnoletti,
  • Yoram Kluger,
  • Gianluca Baiocchi,
  • Fausto Catena,
  • Federico Coccolini

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13017-023-00519-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Abstract Enhanced perioperative care protocols become the standard of care in elective surgery with a significant improvement in patients’ outcome. The key element of the enhanced perioperative care protocol is the multimodal and interdisciplinary approach targeted to the patient, focused on a holistic approach to reduce surgical stress and improve perioperative recovery. Enhanced perioperative care in emergency general surgery is still a debated topic with little evidence available. The present position paper illustrates the existing evidence about perioperative care in emergency surgery patients with a focus on each perioperative intervention in the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative phase. For each item was proposed and approved a statement by the WSES collaborative group.