The World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES)


1. Trauma

    - Blunt and penetrating bowel injury 2022

    - Splenic trauma 2017

    - Spleen trauma classification 2019

    - Follow-up strategies for patients with splenic trauma managed non-operatively 2022

    - Grade III blunt splenic injury without contrast extravasation 2023

    - WSES classification and guidelines for liver trauma 2016

    - Liver trauma 2020

    - Pelvic trauma 2017

2. Gastrointestinal surgery

    - Esophageal emergencies 2019

    - Perforated and bleeding peptic ulcer 2020  

    - Diagnosis and management of adhesive small bowel obstruction (ASBO) 2017

    - Diagnosis and management of small bowel obstruction in virgin abdomen 2021

    - Acute mesenteric ischemia 2017

    - Diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis 2020

    - Diagnosis and treatment of acute left colonic diverticulitis in the elderly 2023

    - Management of acute colonic diverticulitis  2020

    - Management of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infection in surgical patients 2019

    - Management of iatrogenic colonoscopy perforation 2017

    - Colon and rectal cancer emergencies: obstruction and perforation 2017

    - Anorectal emergencies 2021

    - Management of inflammatory bowel disease in the emergency setting 2021

    - Multidisciplinary management of elderly patients with rectal cancer 2021

    - Prevention, detection, and management of iatrogenic urinary tract injuries (IUTIs) during emergency digestive surgery 2023

3. Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic surgery

    - Acute calcolous cholecystitis in elderly population 2017

    - Diagnosis and treatment of acute calculus cholecystitis 2020

    - Detection and management of bile duct injury during cholecystectomy 2020

    - Management of severe acute pancreatitis 2019

4. Hernia surgery

   - Emergency repair of complicated abdominal wall hernias 2017

   - Management of complicated diaphragmatic hernia 2023

5. Others

    - Acute abdomen in the immunocompromised patient 2021

    - Assessing and managing frailty in emergency laparotomy 2023

    - Enhanced perioperative care in emergency general surgery 2023

    - Intraoperative surgical site infection control and prevention 2020

    - Laparoscopic-first approach to general surgery emergencies and abdominal trauma 2023

    - Management of skin and soft-tissue infections 2018

    - Postoperative pain management in non-traumatic emergency general surgery 2022

    - Source control in emergency general surgery 2023

    - The new timing in acute care surgery (new TACS) classification 2023

    - The open abdomen in trauma and non-trauma patients 2018

    - Training curriculum in minimally invasive emergency digestive surgery 2023