Are we ready for "green surgery" to promote environmental sustainability in the operating room? Results from the WSES STAR investigation by Francesca Dal Mas, Lorenzo Cobianchi, Daniele Piccolo, Jeremy Balch, Helena Biancuzzi, Walter L. Biffl, Stefano Campostrini, Enrico Cicuttin, Federico Coccolini, Dimitris Damaskos, Amanda C. Filiberto, Claudia Filisetti, Gustavo Fraga, Simone Frassini, Paola Fugazzola, Timothy Hardcastle, Haytham M. Kaafarani, Yoran Kluger, Maurizio Massaro, Jacopo Martellucci, Ernest Moore, Federico Ruta, Massimo Sartelli, Philip F. Stahel, George Velmahos, Dieter G. Weber, Fausto Catena, Tyler J. Loftus, Luca Ansaloni, the STAR Study Group

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Management of intra-abdominal-infections: 2017 World Society of Emergency Surgery guidelines summary focused on remote areas and low-income nations by Gennaro Perrone, Massimo Sartelli, Giuffrida Mario, Alain Chichom-Mefire, Francesco Maria Labricciosa, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Luca Ansaloni, Walter L. Biffl, Marco Ceresoli, Federico Coccolini, Raul Coimbra, Zaza Demetrashvili, Salomone Di Saverio, Gustavo Pereira Fraga, Vladimir Khokha, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Yoram Kluger, Ari Leppaniemi, Ronald V. Maier, Ernest Eugene Moore, Ionut Negoi, Carlos A. Ordonez, Boris Sakakushev, Helmut A. Segovia Lohse, George C. Velmahos, Imtaz Wani, Dieter G. Weber, Elena Bonati, Fausto Catena

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2020 World Society of Emergency Surgery updated guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute calculus cholecystitis by Michele Pisano, Niccolò Allievi, Kurinchi Gurusamy, Giuseppe Borzellino, Stefania Cimbanassi, Djamila Boerna, Federico Coccolini, Andrea Tufo, Marcello Di Martino, Jeffrey Leung, Massimo Sartelli, Marco Ceresoli, Ronald V. Maier, Elia Poiasina, Nicola De Angelis, Stefano Magnone, Paola Fugazzola, Ciro Paolillo, Raul Coimbra, Salomone Di Saverio, Belinda De Simone, Dieter G. Weber, Boris E. Sakakushev, Alessandro Lucianetti, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Gustavo P. Fraga, Imitaz Wani, Walter L. Biffl, Osvaldo Chiara, Fikri Abu-Zidan, Ernest E. Moore, Ari Leppäniemi, Yoram Kluger, Fausto Catena, Luca Ansaloni

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Operative management of acute abdomen after bariatric surgery in the emergency setting: the OBA guidelines by Belinda De Simone, Elie Chouillard, Almino C. Ramos, Gianfranco Donatelli, Tadeja Pintar, Rahul Gupta, Federica Renzi, Kamal Mahawar, Brijesh Madhok, Stefano Maccatrozzo, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Ernest E. Moore, Dieter G. Weber, Federico Coccolini, Salomone Di Saverio, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Vishal G. Shelat, Francesco Amico, Emmanouil Pikoulis, Marco Ceresoli, Joseph M. Galante, Imtiaz Wani, Nicola De’ Angelis, Andreas Hecker, Gabriele Sganga, Edward Tan, Zsolt J. Balogh, Miklosh Bala, Raul Coimbra, Dimitrios Damaskos, Luca Ansaloni, Massimo Sartelli, Nikolaos Parasas, Yoram Kluger, Elias Chahine, Vanni Agnoletti, Gustavo Fraga, Walter L. Biffl, Fausto Catena

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Assessing and managing frailty in emergency laparotomy: a WSES position paper by Brian W. C. A. Tian, Philip F. Stahel, Edoardo Picetti, Giampiero Campanelli, Salomone Di Saverio, Ernest Moore, Denis Bensard, Boris Sakakushev, Joseph Galante, Gustavo P. Fraga, Kaoru Koike, Isidoro Di Carlo, Giovanni D. Tebala, Ari Leppaniemi, Edward Tan, Dimitris Damaskos, Nicola De’Angelis, Andreas Hecker, Michele Pisano, YunfengCui, Ron V. Maier, Belinda De Simone, Francesco Amico, Marco Ceresoli, Manos Pikoulis, Dieter G. Weber, Walt Biffl, Solomon Gurmu Beka, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Massimo Valentino, Federico Coccolini, Yoram Kluger, Massimo Sartelli, Vanni Agnoletti, Mircea Chirica, Francesca Bravi, Ibrahima Sall, Fausto Catena

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Correction: Operative management of acute abdomen after bariatric surgery in the emergency setting: the OBA guidelines by Belinda De Simone, Elie Chouillard, Almino C. Ramos, Gianfranco Donatelli, Tadeja Pintar, Rahul Gupta, Federica Renzi, Kamal Mahawar, Brijesh Madhok, Stefano Maccatrozzo, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Ernest E. Moore, Dieter G. Weber, Federico Coccolini, Salomone Di Saverio, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Vishal G. Shelat, Francesco Amico, Emmanouil Pikoulis, Marco Ceresoli, Joseph M. Galante, Imtiaz Wani, Nicola De’Angelis, Andreas Hecker, Gabriele Sganga, Edward Tan, Zsolt J. Balogh, Miklosh Bala, Raul Coimbra, Dimitrios Damaskos, Luca Ansaloni, Massimo Sartelli, Nikolaos Pararas, Yoram Kluger, Elias Chahine, Vanni Agnoletti, Gustavo Fraga, Walter L. Biffl, Fausto Catena

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Management of complicated diaphragmatic hernia in the acute setting: a WSES position paper by Mario Giuffrida, Gennaro Perrone, Fikri Abu-Zidan, Vanni Agnoletti, Luca Ansaloni, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Cino Bendinelli, Walter L. Biffl, Luigi Bonavina, Francesca Bravi, Paolo Carcoforo, Marco Ceresoli, Alain Chichom-Mefire, Federico Coccolini, Raul Coimbra, Nicola de’Angelis, Marc de Moya, Belinda De Simone, Salomone Di Saverio, Gustavo Pereira Fraga, Joseph Galante, Rao Ivatury, Jeffry Kashuk, Michael Denis Kelly, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Yoram Kluger, Kaoru Koike, Ari Leppaniemi, Ronald V. Maier, Ernest Eugene Moore, Andrew Peitzmann, Boris Sakakushev, Massimo Sartelli, Michael Sugrue, Brian W. C. A. Tian, Richard Ten Broek, Carlo Vallicelli, Imtaz Wani, Dieter G. Weber, Giovanni Docimo, Fausto Catena

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

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2017 WSES guidelines for the management of iatrogenic colonoscopy perforation by Nicola de’Angelis, Salomone Di Saverio, Osvaldo Chiara, Massimo Sartelli, Aleix Martínez-Pérez, Franca Patrizi, Dieter G. Weber, Luca Ansaloni, Walter Biffl, Offir Ben-Ishay, Miklosh Bala, Francesco Brunetti, Federica Gaiani, Solafah Abdalla, Aurelien Amiot, Hany Bahouth, Giorgio Bianchi, Daniel Casanova, Federico Coccolini, Raul Coimbra, Gian Luigi de’Angelis, Belinda De Simone, Gustavo P. Fraga, Pietro Genova, Rao Ivatury, Jeffry L. Kashuk, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Yann Le Baleur, Fernando Machado, Gustavo M. Machain, Ronald V. Maier, Alain Chichom-Mefire, Riccardo Memeo, Carlos Mesquita, Juan Carlos Salamea Molina, Massimiliano Mutignani, Ramiro Manzano-Núñez, Carlos Ordoñez, Andrew B. Peitzman, Bruno M. Pereira, Edoardo Picetti, Michele Pisano, Juan Carlos Puyana, Sandro Rizoli, Mohammed Siddiqui, Iradj Sobhani, Richard P. ten Broek, Luigi Zorcolo, Maria Clotilde Carra, Yoram Kluger, Fausto Catena

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Diagnosis and treatment of acute appendicitis: 2020 update of the WSES Jerusalem guidelines by Salomone Di Saverio, Mauro Podda, Belinda De Simone, Marco Ceresoli, Goran Augustin, Alice Gori, Marja Boermeester, Massimo Sartelli, Federico Coccolini, Antonio Tarasconi, Nicola de’ Angelis, Dieter G. Weber, Matti Tolonen, Arianna Birindelli, Walter Biffl, Ernest E. Moore, Michael Kelly, Kjetil Soreide, Jeffry Kashuk, Richard Ten Broek, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Michael Sugrue, Richard Justin Davies, Dimitrios Damaskos, Ari Leppäniemi, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Andrew B. Peitzman, Gustavo P. Fraga, Ronald V. Maier, Raul Coimbra, Massimo Chiarugi, Gabriele Sganga, Adolfo Pisanu, Gian Luigi de’ Angelis, Edward Tan, Harry Van Goor, Francesco Pata, Isidoro Di Carlo, Osvaldo Chiara, Andrey Litvin, Fabio C. Campanile, Boris Sakakushev, Gia Tomadze, Zaza Demetrashvili, Rifat Latifi, Fakri Abu-Zidan, Oreste Romeo, Helmut Segovia-Lohse, Gianluca Baiocchi, David Costa, Sandro Rizoli, Zsolt J. Balogh, Cino Bendinelli, Thomas Scalea, Rao Ivatury, George Velmahos, Roland Andersson, Yoram Kluger, Luca Ansaloni, Fausto Catena

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2020 update of the WSES guidelines for the management of acute colonic diverticulitis in the emergency setting by Massimo Sartelli, Dieter G. Weber, Yoram Kluger, Luca Ansaloni, Federico Coccolini, Fikri Abu-Zidan, Goran Augustin, Offir Ben-Ishay, Walter L. Biffl, Konstantinos Bouliaris, Rodolfo Catena, Marco Ceresoli, Osvaldo Chiara, Massimo Chiarugi, Raul Coimbra, Francesco Cortese, Yunfeng Cui, Dimitris Damaskos, Gian Luigi de’ Angelis, Samir Delibegovic, Zaza Demetrashvili, Belinda De Simone, Francesco Di Marzo, Salomone Di Saverio, Therese M. Duane, Mario Paulo Faro, Gustavo P. Fraga, George Gkiokas, Carlos Augusto Gomes, Timothy C. Hardcastle, Andreas Hecker, Aleksandar Karamarkovic, Jeffry Kashuk, Vladimir Khokha, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Kenneth Y. Y. Kok, Kenji Inaba, Arda Isik, Francesco M. Labricciosa, Rifat Latifi, Ari Leppäniemi, Andrey Litvin, John E. Mazuski, Ronald V. Maier, Sanjay Marwah, Michael McFarlane, Ernest E. Moore, Frederick A. Moore, Ionut Negoi, Leonardo Pagani, Kemal Rasa, Ines Rubio-Perez, Boris Sakakushev, Norio Sato, Gabriele Sganga, Walter Siquini, Antonio Tarasconi, Matti Tolonen, Jan Ulrych, Sannop K. Zachariah, Fausto Catena

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Postoperative pain management in non-traumatic emergency general surgery: WSES-GAIS-SIAARTI-AAST guidelines by Federico Coccolini, Francesco Corradi, Massimo Sartelli, Raul Coimbra, Igor A. Kryvoruchko, Ari Leppaniemi, Krstina Doklestic, Elena Bignami, Giandomenico Biancofiore, Miklosh Bala, Ceresoli Marco, Dimitris Damaskos, Walt L. Biffl, Paola Fugazzola, Domenico Santonastaso, Vanni Agnoletti, Catia Sbarbaro, Mirco Nacoti, Timothy C. Hardcastle, Diego Mariani, Belinda De Simone, Matti Tolonen, Chad Ball, Mauro Podda, Isidoro Di Carlo, Salomone Di Saverio, Pradeep Navsaria, Luigi Bonavina, Fikri Abu-Zidan, Kjetil Soreide, Gustavo P. Fraga, Vanessa Henriques Carvalho, Sergio Faria Batista, Andreas Hecker, Alessandro Cucchetti, Giorgio Ercolani, Dario Tartaglia, Joseph M. Galante, Imtiaz Wani, Hayato Kurihara, Edward Tan, Andrey Litvin, Rita Maria Melotti, Gabriele Sganga, Tamara Zoro, Alessandro Isirdi, Nicola De’Angelis, Dieter G. Weber, Adrien M. Hodonou, Richard tenBroek, Dario Parini, Jim Khan, Giovanni Sbrana, Carlo Coniglio, Antonino Giarratano, Angelo Gratarola, Claudia Zaghi, Oreste Romeo, Michael Kelly, Francesco Forfori, Massimo Chiarugi, Ernest E. Moore, Fausto Catena, Manu L. N. G. Malbrain

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The management of intra-abdominal infections from a global perspective: 2017 WSES guidelines for management of intra-abdominal infections by Massimo Sartelli, Alain Chichom-Mefire, Francesco M. Labricciosa, Timothy Hardcastle, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Abdulrashid K. Adesunkanmi, Luca Ansaloni, Miklosh Bala, Zsolt J. Balogh, Marcelo A. Beltrán, Offir Ben-Ishay, Walter L. Biffl, Arianna Birindelli, Miguel A. Cainzos, Gianbattista Catalini, Marco Ceresoli, Asri Che Jusoh, Osvaldo Chiara, Federico Coccolini, Raul Coimbra, Francesco Cortese, Zaza Demetrashvili, Salomone Di Saverio, Jose J. Diaz, Valery N. Egiev, Paula Ferrada, Gustavo P. Fraga, Wagih M. Ghnnam, Jae Gil Lee, Carlos A. Gomes, Andreas Hecker, Torsten Herzog, Jae Il Kim, Kenji Inaba, Arda Isik, Aleksandar Karamarkovic, Jeffry Kashuk, Vladimir Khokha, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Yoram Kluger, Kaoru Koike, Victor Y. Kong, Ari Leppaniemi, Gustavo M. Machain, Ronald V. Maier, Sanjay Marwah, Michael E. McFarlane, Giulia Montori, Ernest E. Moore, Ionut Negoi, Iyiade Olaoye, Abdelkarim H. Omari, Carlos A. Ordonez, Bruno M. Pereira, Gerson A. Pereira Júnior, Guntars Pupelis, Tarcisio Reis, Boris Sakakushev, Norio Sato, Helmut A. Segovia Lohse, Vishal G. Shelat, Kjetil Søreide, Waldemar Uhl, Jan Ulrych, Harry Van Goor, George C. Velmahos, Kuo-Ching Yuan, Imtiaz Wani, Dieter G. Weber, Sanoop K. Zachariah, Fausto Catena

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ECLAPTE: Effective Closure of LAParoTomy in Emergency—2023 World Society of Emergency Surgery guidelines for the closure of laparotomy in emergency settings by Simone Frassini, Lorenzo Cobianchi, Paola Fugazzola, Walter L. Biffl, Federico Coccolini, Dimitrios Damaskos, Ernest E. Moore, Yoram Kluger, Marco Ceresoli, Raul Coimbra, Justin Davies, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Isidoro Di Carlo, Timothy C. Hardcastle, Arda Isik, Massimo Chiarugi, Kurinchi Gurusamy, Ronald V. Maier, Helmut A. Segovia Lohse, Hans Jeekel, Marja A. Boermeester, Fikri Abu-Zidan, Kenji Inaba, Dieter G. Weber, Goran Augustin, Luigi Bonavina, George Velmahos, Massimo Sartelli, Salomone Di Saverio, Richard P. G. Ten Broek, Stefano Granieri, Francesca Dal Mas, Camilla Nikita Farè, Jacopo Peverada, Simone Zanghì, Jacopo Viganò, Matteo Tomasoni, Tommaso Dominioni, Enrico Cicuttin, Andreas Hecker, Giovanni D. Tebala, Joseph M. Galante, Imtiaz Wani, Vladimir Khokha, Michael Sugrue, Thomas M. Scalea, Edward Tan, Mark A. Malangoni, Nikolaos Pararas, Mauro Podda, Belinda De Simone, Rao Ivatury, Yunfeng Cui, Jeffry Kashuk, Andrew Peitzman, Fernando Kim, Emmanouil Pikoulis, Gabriele Sganga, Osvaldo Chiara, Michael D. Kelly, Ingo Marzi, Edoardo Picetti, Vanni Agnoletti, Nicola De’Angelis, Giampiero Campanelli, Marc de Moya, Andrey Litvin, Aleix Martínez-Pérez, Ibrahima Sall, Sandro Rizoli, Gia Tomadze, Boris Sakakushev, Philip F. Stahel, Ian Civil, Vishal Shelat, David Costa, Alain Chichom-Mefire, Rifat Latifi, Mircea Chirica, Francesco Amico, Amyn Pardhan, Vidya Seenarain, Nikitha Boyapati, Basil Hatz, Travis Ackermann, Sandun Abeyasundara, Linda Fenton, Frank Plani, Rohit Sarvepalli, Omid Rouhbakhshfar, Pamela Caleo, Victor Ho-Ching Yau, Kristenne Clement, Erasmia Christou, Ana María González Castillo, Preet K. S. Gosal, Sunder Balasubramaniam, Jeremy Hsu, Kamon Banphawatanarak, Michele Pisano, Toro Adriana, Altomare Michele, Stefano P. B. Cioffi, Andrea Spota, Fausto Catena, Luca Ansaloni

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Correction: ECLAPTE: Effective Closure of LAParoTomy in Emergency—2023 World Society of Emergency Surgery guidelines for the closure of laparotomy in emergency settings by Simone Frassini, Lorenzo Cobianchi, Paola Fugazzola, Walter L. Biffl, Federico Coccolini, Dimitrios Damaskos, Ernest E. Moore, Yoram Kluger, Marco Ceresoli, Raul Coimbra, Justin Davies, Andrew Kirkpatrick, Isidoro Di Carlo, Timothy C. Hardcastle, Arda Isik, Massimo Chiarugi, Kurinchi Gurusamy, Ronald V. Maier, Helmut A. Segovia Lohse, Hans Jeekel, Marja A. Boermeester, Fikri Abu-Zidan, Kenji Inaba, Dieter G. Weber, Goran Augustin, Luigi Bonavina, George Velmahos, Massimo Sartelli, Salomone Di Saverio, Richard P. G. Ten Broek, Stefano Granieri, Francesca Dal Mas, Camilla Nikita Farè, Jacopo Peverada, Simone Zanghì, Jacopo Viganò, Matteo Tomasoni, Tommaso Dominioni, Enrico Cicuttin, Andreas Hecker, Giovanni D. Tebala, Joseph M. Galante, Imtiaz Wani, Vladimir Khokha, Michael Sugrue, Thomas M. Scalea, Edward Tan, Mark A. Malangoni, Nikolaos Pararas, Mauro Podda, Belinda De Simone, Rao Ivatury, Yunfeng Cui, Jeffry Kashuk, Andrew Peitzman, Fernando Kim, Emmanouil Pikoulis, Gabriele Sganga, Osvaldo Chiara, Michael D. Kelly, Ingo Marzi, Edoardo Picetti, Vanni Agnoletti, Nicola De’Angelis, Giampiero Campanelli, Marc de Moya, Andrey Litvin, Aleix Martínez-Pérez, Ibrahima Sall, Sandro Rizoli, Gia Tomadze, Boris Sakakushev, Philip F. Stahel, Ian Civil, Vishal Shelat, David Costa, Alain Chichom-Mefire, Rifat Latifi, Mircea Chirica, Francesco Amico, Amyn Pardhan, Vidya Seenarain, Nikitha Boyapati, Basil Hatz, Travis Ackermann, Sandun Abeyasundara, Linda Fenton, Frank Plani, Rohit Sarvepalli, Omid Rouhbakhshfar, Pamela Caleo, Victor Ho-Ching Yau, Kristenne Clement, Erasmia Christou, Ana María González Castillo, Preet K. S. Gosal, Sunder Balasubramaniam, Jeremy Hsu, Kamon Banphawatanarak, Michele Pisano, Adriana Toro, Altomare Michele, Stefano P. B. Cioffi, Andrea Spota, Fausto Catena, Luca Ansaloni

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