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World Journal of Emergency Surgery

Ausgabe 1/2016

Inhalt (54 Artikel)

Open Access Review

Intraoperative diagnosis of solitary cecal diverticulum not requiring surgery: is appendectomy indicated?

Renol M. Koshy, Abdelrahman Abusabeib, Saif Al-Mudares, Mohamed Khairat, Adriana Toro, Isidoro Di Carlo

Open Access Research article

Obese patients who fall have less injury severity but a longer hospital stay than normal-weight patients

Jung-Fang Chuang, Cheng-Shyuan Rau, Hang-Tsung Liu, Shao-Chun Wu, Yi-Chun Chen, Shiun-Yuan Hsu, Hsiao-Yun Hsieh, Ching-Hua Hsieh

Open Access Research article

Emergency General Surgery: evolution of a subspecialty by stealth

L. Pearce, S. R. Smith, E. Parkin, C. Hall, J. Kennedy, A. Macdonald

Open Access Research article

Diagnostic accuracy of oblique chest radiograph for occult pneumothorax: comparison with ultrasonography

Shokei Matsumoto, Kazuhiko Sekine, Tomohiro Funabiki, Tomohiko Orita, Masayuki Shimizu, Kei Hayashida, Taku Kazamaki, Tatsuya Suzuki, Masanobu Kishikawa, Motoyasu Yamazaki, Mitsuhide Kitano

Open Access Research article

Association between increased blood interleukin-6 levels on emergency department arrival and prolonged length of intensive care unit stay for blunt trauma

Masashi Taniguchi, Taka-aki Nakada, Koichiro Shinozaki, Yasuaki Mizushima, Tetsuya Matsuoka

Open Access Research article

Plasma calprotectin level: usage in distinction of uncomplicated from complicated acute appendicitis

Murat Cikot, Kivanc Derya Peker, Mehmet Abdussamet Bozkurt, Ali Kocatas, Osman Kones, Sinan Binboga, Asuman Gedikbasi, Halil Alis

Open Access Commentary

Mass casualty incidents - time to engage

Offir Ben-Ishay, Michele Mitaritonno, Fausto Catena, Massimo Sartelli, Luca Ansaloni, Yoram Kluger

Open Access Research article

Damage control operations in non-trauma patients: defining criteria for the staged rapid source control laparotomy in emergency general surgery

Robert D. Becher, Andrew B. Peitzman, Jason L. Sperry, Jared R. Gallaher, Lucas P. Neff, Yankai Sun, Preston R. Miller, Michael C. Chang

Open Access Research article

Surgeon agreement at the time of handover, a prospective cohort study

Richard Hilsden, Bradley Moffat, Sarah Knowles, Neil Parry, Ken Leslie

Open Access Reviewer acknowledgement

World Journal of Emergency Surgery reviewer acknowledgement 2015

Fausto Catena, Frederick Moore

Open Access Research article

Risk factors for delayed neuro-surgical intervention in patients with acute mild traumatic brain injury and intracranial hemorrhage

Fu-Yuan Shih, Hsin-Huan Chang, Hung-Chen Wang, Tsung-Han Lee, Yu-Jun Lin, Wei-Che Lin, Wu-Fu Chen, Jih-Tsun Ho, Cheng-Hsien Lu

Open Access Research article

Implementation of a quality improvement project on smoking cessation reduces smoking in a high risk trauma patient population

Jeffry Nahmias, Andrew Doben, Shiva Poola, Samuel Korntner, Karen Carrens, Ronald Gross

Open Access Research article

Learning curve after rapid introduction of laparoscopic appendectomy: are there any risks in surgical resident participation?

Eszter Mán, Tibor Németh, Tibor Géczi, Zsolt Simonka, György Lázár

Open Access Review

History of pelvic fracture management: a review

Philip F. Stahel, E. Mark Hammerberg

Open Access Research article

Emergency right colectomy: which strategy when primary anastomosis is not feasible?

Hugo Teixeira Farinha, Emmanuel Melloul, Dieter Hahnloser, Nicolas Demartines, Martin Hübner

Open Access Research article

Resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta for uncontrollable nonvariceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding

Hidefumi Sano, Junya Tsurukiri, Akira Hoshiai, Taishi Oomura, Yosuke Tanaka, Shoichi Ohta

Open Access Research article

Review of 58 patients with necrotizing fasciitis in the Netherlands

Sander F. L. van Stigt, Janneke de Vries, Jilles B. Bijker, Roland M. H. G. Mollen, Edo J. Hekma, Susan M. Lemson, Edward C. T. H. Tan

Open Access Methodology

Efficacy of extra-peritoneal pelvic packing in hemodynamically unstable pelvic fractures, a Propensity Score Analysis

Osvaldo Chiara, Emanuele di Fratta, Anna Mariani, Bertuzzi Michaela, Lucia Prestini, Fabrizio Sammartano, Stefania Cimbanassi

Open Access Erratum

Erratum to: Poor prognostic factors in patients who underwent surgery for acute non-occlusive ischemic colitis

Minsu Noh, Song Soo Yang, Seok Won Jung, Jae Ho Park, Yeong Cheol Im, Kyu Yeol Kim

Open Access Research article

Wells criteria for DVT is a reliable clinical tool to assess the risk of deep venous thrombosis in trauma patients

Shrey Modi, Ryan Deisler, Karen Gozel, Patty Reicks, Eric Irwin, Melissa Brunsvold, Kaysie Banton, Greg J. Beilman

Open Access Review

2016 WSES guidelines on acute calculous cholecystitis

L. Ansaloni, M. Pisano, F. Coccolini, A. B. Peitzmann, A. Fingerhut, F. Catena, F. Agresta, A. Allegri, I. Bailey, Z. J. Balogh, C. Bendinelli, W. Biffl, L. Bonavina, G. Borzellino, F. Brunetti, C. C. Burlew, G. Camapanelli, F. C. Campanile, M. Ceresoli, O. Chiara, I. Civil, R. Coimbra, M. De Moya, S. Di Saverio, G. P. Fraga, S. Gupta, J. Kashuk, M. D. Kelly, V. Khokha, H. Jeekel, R. Latifi, A. Leppaniemi, R. V. Maier, I. Marzi, F. Moore, D. Piazzalunga, B. Sakakushev, M. Sartelli, T. Scalea, P. F. Stahel, K. Taviloglu, G. Tugnoli, S. Uraneus, G. C. Velmahos, I. Wani, D. G. Weber, P. Viale, M. Sugrue, R. Ivatury, Y. Kluger, K. S. Gurusamy, E. E. Moore

Open Access Review

Focus on the prophylaxis, epidemiology and therapy of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surgical site infections and a position paper on associated risk factors: the perspective of an Italian group of surgeons

G. Sganga, C. Tascini, E. Sozio, M. Carlini, P. Chirletti, F. Cortese, R. Gattuso, P. Granone, C. Pempinello, M. Sartelli, S. Colizza

Open Access Research article

Surgical treatment of multiple rib fractures and flail chest in trauma: a one-year follow-up study

Eva-Corina Caragounis, Monika Fagevik Olsén, David Pazooki, Hans Granhed

Open Access Research article

Anatomical, physiological, and logistical indications for the open abdomen: a proposal for a new classification system

Joao Rezende-Neto, Timothy Rice, Emanuelle Savio Abreu, Ori Rotstein, Sandro Rizoli

Open Access Letter to the Editor

Management of traumatic wounds in the Emergency Department: position paper from the Academy of Emergency Medicine and Care (AcEMC) and the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES)

Carolina Prevaldi, Ciro Paolillo, Carlo Locatelli, Giorgio Ricci, Fausto Catena, Luca Ansaloni, Gianfranco Cervellin

Open Access Research article

Safety in selective surgical exploration in penetrating neck trauma

Frederico Teixeira, Carlos Augusto Metidieri Menegozzo, Sérgio Dias do Couto Netto, Renato S. Poggeti, Francisco de Sales Collet e Silva, Dario Birolini, Celso de Oliveira Bernini, Edivaldo Massazo Utiyama

Open Access Review

Antimicrobials: a global alliance for optimizing their rational use in intra-abdominal infections (AGORA)

Massimo Sartelli, Dieter G. Weber, Etienne Ruppé, Matteo Bassetti, Brian J. Wright, Luca Ansaloni, Fausto Catena, Federico Coccolini, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Raul Coimbra, Ernest E. Moore, Frederick A. Moore, Ronald V. Maier, Jan J. De Waele, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Ewen A. Griffiths, Christian Eckmann, Adrian J. Brink, John E. Mazuski, Addison K. May, Rob G. Sawyer, Dominik Mertz, Philippe Montravers, Anand Kumar, Jason A. Roberts, Jean-Louis Vincent, Richard R. Watkins, Warren Lowman, Brad Spellberg, Iain J. Abbott, Abdulrashid Kayode Adesunkanmi, Sara Al-Dahir, Majdi N. Al-Hasan, Ferdinando Agresta, Asma A. Althani, Shamshul Ansari, Rashid Ansumana, Goran Augustin, Miklosh Bala, Zsolt J. Balogh, Oussama Baraket, Aneel Bhangu, Marcelo A. Beltrán, Michael Bernhard, Walter L. Biffl, Marja A. Boermeester, Stephen M. Brecher, Jill R. Cherry-Bukowiec, Otmar R. Buyne, Miguel A. Cainzos, Kelly A. Cairns, Adrian Camacho-Ortiz, Sujith J. Chandy, Asri Che Jusoh, Alain Chichom-Mefire, Caroline Colijn, Francesco Corcione, Yunfeng Cui, Daniel Curcio, Samir Delibegovic, Zaza Demetrashvili, Belinda De Simone, Sameer Dhingra, José J. Diaz, Isidoro Di Carlo, Angel Dillip, Salomone Di Saverio, Michael P. Doyle, Gereltuya Dorj, Agron Dogjani, Hervé Dupont, Soumitra R. Eachempati, Mushira Abdulaziz Enani, Valery N. Egiev, Mutasim M. Elmangory, Paula Ferrada, Joseph R. Fitchett, Gustavo P. Fraga, Nathalie Guessennd, Helen Giamarellou, Wagih Ghnnam, George Gkiokas, Staphanie R. Goldberg, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Harumi Gomi, Manuel Guzmán-Blanco, Mainul Haque, Sonja Hansen, Andreas Hecker, Wolfgang R. Heizmann, Torsten Herzog, Adrien Montcho Hodonou, Suk-Kyung Hong, Reinhold Kafka-Ritsch, Lewis J. Kaplan, Garima Kapoor, Aleksandar Karamarkovic, Martin G. Kees, Jakub Kenig, Ronald Kiguba, Peter K. Kim, Yoram Kluger, Vladimir Khokha, Kaoru Koike, Kenneth Y. Y. Kok, Victory Kong, Matthew C. Knox, Kenji Inaba, Arda Isik, Katia Iskandar, Rao R. Ivatury, Maurizio Labbate, Francesco M. Labricciosa, Pierre-François Laterre, Rifat Latifi, Jae Gil Lee, Young Ran Lee, Marc Leone, Ari Leppaniemi, Yousheng Li, Stephen Y. Liang, Tonny Loho, Marc Maegele, Sydney Malama, Hany E. Marei, Ignacio Martin-Loeches, Sanjay Marwah, Amos Massele, Michael McFarlane, Renato Bessa Melo, Ionut Negoi, David P. Nicolau, Carl Erik Nord, Richard Ofori-Asenso, AbdelKarim H. Omari, Carlos A. Ordonez, Mouaqit Ouadii, Gerson Alves Pereira Júnior, Diego Piazza, Guntars Pupelis, Timothy Miles Rawson, Miran Rems, Sandro Rizoli, Claudio Rocha, Boris Sakakhushev, Miguel Sanchez-Garcia, Norio Sato, Helmut A. Segovia Lohse, Gabriele Sganga, Boonying Siribumrungwong, Vishal G. Shelat, Kjetil Soreide, Rodolfo Soto, Peep Talving, Jonathan V. Tilsed, Jean-Francois Timsit, Gabriel Trueba, Ngo Tat Trung, Jan Ulrych, Harry van Goor, Andras Vereczkei, Ravinder S. Vohra, Imtiaz Wani, Waldemar Uhl, Yonghong Xiao, Kuo-Ching Yuan, Sanoop K. Zachariah, Jean-Ralph Zahar, Tanya L. Zakrison, Antonio Corcione, Rita M. Melotti, Claudio Viscoli, Perluigi Viale

Open Access Review

WSES Jerusalem guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis

Salomone Di Saverio, Arianna Birindelli, Micheal D. Kelly, Fausto Catena, Dieter G. Weber, Massimo Sartelli, Michael Sugrue, Mark De Moya, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Aneel Bhangu, Ferdinando Agresta, Ernest E. Moore, Kjetil Soreide, Ewen Griffiths, Steve De Castro, Jeffry Kashuk, Yoram Kluger, Ari Leppaniemi, Luca Ansaloni, Manne Andersson, Federico Coccolini, Raul Coimbra, Kurinchi S. Gurusamy, Fabio Cesare Campanile, Walter Biffl, Osvaldo Chiara, Fred Moore, Andrew B. Peitzman, Gustavo P. Fraga, David Costa, Ronald V. Maier, Sandro Rizoli, Zsolt J Balogh, Cino Bendinelli, Roberto Cirocchi, Valeria Tonini, Alice Piccinini, Gregorio Tugnoli, Elio Jovine, Roberto Persiani, Antonio Biondi, Thomas Scalea, Philip Stahel, Rao Ivatury, George Velmahos, Roland Andersson

Open Access Research article

Patterns and management of degloving injuries: a single national level 1 trauma center experience

Suhail Hakim, Khalid Ahmed, Ayman El-Menyar, Gaby Jabbour, Ruben Peralta, Syed Nabir, Ahammed Mekkodathil, Husham Abdelrahman, Ammar Al-Hassani, Hassan Al-Thani

Open Access Research article

Geriatric Assessment as a qualification element for elective and emergency cholecystectomy in older patients

Jakub Kenig, Piotr Wałęga, Urszula Olszewska, Aleksander Konturek, Wojciech Nowak

Open Access Review

WSES Guidelines for the management of acute left sided colonic diverticulitis in the emergency setting

Massimo Sartelli, Fausto Catena, Luca Ansaloni, Federico Coccolini, Ewen A. Griffiths, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Salomone Di Saverio, Jan Ulrych, Yoram Kluger, Ofir Ben-Ishay, Frederick A. Moore, Rao R. Ivatury, Raul Coimbra, Andrew B. Peitzman, Ari Leppaniemi, Gustavo P. Fraga, Ronald V. Maier, Osvaldo Chiara, Jeffry Kashuk, Boris Sakakushev, Dieter G. Weber, Rifat Latifi, Walter Biffl, Miklosh Bala, Aleksandar Karamarkovic, Kenji Inaba, Carlos A. Ordonez, Andreas Hecker, Goran Augustin, Zaza Demetrashvili, Renato Bessa Melo, Sanjay Marwah, Sanoop K. Zachariah, Vishal G. Shelat, Michael McFarlane, Miran Rems, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Mario Paulo Faro, Gerson Alves Pereira Júnior, Ionut Negoi, Yunfeng Cui, Norio Sato, Andras Vereczkei, Giovanni Bellanova, Arianna Birindelli, Isidoro Di Carlo, Kenneth Y Kok, Mahir Gachabayov, Georgios Gkiokas, Konstantinos Bouliaris, Elif Çolak, Arda Isik, Daniel Rios-Cruz, Rodolfo Soto, Ernest E. Moore

Open Access Research article

Pattern and predictors of mortality in necrotizing fasciitis patients in a single tertiary hospital

Gaby Jabbour, Ayman El-Menyar, Ruben Peralta, Nissar Shaikh, Husham Abdelrahman, Insolvisagan Natesa Mudali, Mohamed Ellabib, Hassan Al-Thani

Open Access Research article

Retrospective one-million-subject fixed-cohort survey of utilization of emergency departments due to traumatic causes in Taiwan, 2001–2010

Nan-Ping Yang, Dinh-Van Phan, Yi-Hui Lee, Jin-Chyr Hsu, Ren-Hao Pan, Chien-Lung Chan, Nien-Tzu Chang, Dachen Chu

Open Access Review

Laparoscopic lavage versus resection in perforated diverticulitis with purulent peritonitis: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Marco Ceresoli, Federico Coccolini, Giulia Montori, Fausto Catena, Massimo Sartelli, Luca Ansaloni

Open Access Review

Emergency abdominal surgery after solid organ transplantation: a systematic review

Nicola de’Angelis, Francesco Esposito, Riccardo Memeo, Vincenzo Lizzi, Aleix Martìnez-Pérez, Filippo Landi, Pietro Genova, Fausto Catena, Francesco Brunetti, Daniel Azoulay

Open Access Research article

Laparoscopic versus open appendectomy: a retrospective cohort study assessing outcomes and cost-effectiveness

Antonio Biondi, Carla Di Stefano, Francesco Ferrara, Angelo Bellia, Marco Vacante, Luigi Piazza

Open Access Methodology

Ex-vivo and live animal models are equally effective training for the management of a penetrating cardiac injury

Yoshimitsu Izawa, Shuji Hishikawa, Tomohiro Muronoi, Keisuke Yamashita, Hiroyuki Maruyama, Masayuki Suzukawa, Alan Kawarai Lefor

Open Access Research article

Prediction of blunt traumatic injuries and hospital admission based on history and physical exam

Alan L. Beal, Mark N. Ahrendt, Eric D. Irwin, John W. Lyng, Steven V. Turner, Christopher A. Beal, Matthew T. Byrnes, Greg A. Beilman

Open Access Research article

Validity of predictive factors of acute complicated appendicitis

Yuki Imaoka, Toshiyuki Itamoto, Yuji Takakura, Takahisa Suzuki, Satoshi Ikeda, Takashi Urushihara

Open Access Research article

In-hospital costs of an admission for adhesive small bowel obstruction

Pepijn Krielen, Barend A. van den Beukel, Martijn W. J. Stommel, Harry van Goor, Chema Strik, Richard P. G. ten Broek

Open Access Review

WSES classification and guidelines for liver trauma

Federico Coccolini, Fausto Catena, Ernest E. Moore, Rao Ivatury, Walter Biffl, Andrew Peitzman, Raul Coimbra, Sandro Rizoli, Yoram Kluger, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Marco Ceresoli, Giulia Montori, Massimo Sartelli, Dieter Weber, Gustavo Fraga, Noel Naidoo, Frederick A. Moore, Nicola Zanini, Luca Ansaloni

Open Access Research article

Triple diagnostics for early detection of ambivalent necrotizing fasciitis

Falco Hietbrink, Lonneke G. Bode, Louis Riddez, Luke P. H. Leenen, Marijke R. van Dijk

Open Access Erratum

Erratum to: 2016 WSES guidelines on acute calculous cholecystitis

L. Ansaloni, M. Pisano, F. Coccolini, A. B. Peitzmann, A. Fingerhut, F. Catena, F. Agresta, A. Allegri, I. Bailey, Z. J. Balogh, C. Bendinelli, W. Biffl, L. Bonavina, G. Borzellino, F. Brunetti, C. C. Burlew, G. Camapanelli, F. C. Campanile, M. Ceresoli, O. Chiara, I. Civil, R. Coimbra, M. De Moya, S. Di Saverio, G. P. Fraga, S. Gupta, J. Kashuk, M. D. Kelly, V. Khokha, H. Jeekel, R. Latifi, A. Leppaniemi, R. V. Maier, I. Marzi, F. Moore, D. Piazzalunga, B. Sakakushev, M. Sartelli, T. Scalea, P. F. Stahel, K. Taviloglu, G. Tugnoli, S. Uraneus, G. C. Velmahos, I. Wani, D. G. Weber, P. Viale, M. Sugrue, R. Ivatury, Y. Kluger, K. S. Gurusamy, E. E. Moore

Open Access Obituary

OBITUARY: Giorgio Gambale (1955-2015)

Vanni Agnoletti, Marco Barozzi, Luca Ansaloni, Francesco Cancellieri

Open Access Research article

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute calculous cholecystitis: a retrospective study assessing risk factors for conversion and complications

Petra Maria Terho, Ari Kalevi Leppäniemi, Panu Juhani Mentula