Society guideline links: Traumatic abdominal and non-genitourinary retroperitoneal injury

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: General issues of trauma management in adults" and "Society guideline links: Genitourinary tract trauma in adults" and "Society guideline links: Nontraumatic abdominal pain in adults" and "Society guideline links: Gastrointestinal perforation".)

International

●World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES): Guidelines on blunt and penetrating bowel injury – Diagnosis, investigations, and treatment (2022)

●WSES: Guidelines on liver trauma (2020)

●WSES: Guidelines on the open abdomen in trauma and non-trauma patients (2018)

●WSES: Classification and guidelines for adult and pediatric patients for splenic trauma (2017)

●WSES: Classification and guidelines for liver trauma (2016)

United States

●Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST): Practice management guideline on vaccination after spleen embolization (2022)

●American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST): Organ Injury Scale 2018 update for computed tomography-based grading of renal trauma – A primer for the emergency radiologist (published 2019)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on penetrating trauma – Lower abdomen and pelvis (revised 2019)

●EAST: Practice management guidelines for the management of blunt force bladder injuries (2019)

●EAST: Practice management guidelines for the management of penetrating intraperitoneal colon injuries (2019)

●Western Trauma Association (WTA): Critical decisions algorithm for the evaluation and management of abdominal gunshot wounds (2019)

●WTA: Critical decisions in trauma – Management of the open abdomen after damage control surgery (2019)

●EAST: Practice management guidelines for the evaluation and management of diaphragmatic injury (2018)

●WTA: Critical decisions algorithm for the evaluation and management of abdominal stab wounds (2018)

●WTA: Critical decisions in trauma – Management of renal trauma (2018)

●EAST: Practice management guidelines on pancreatic injuries (2017)

●EAST: Practice management guidelines on penetrating extraperitoneal rectal injuries (2016)

●WTA: Critical decisions in trauma – Management of adult blunt splenic trauma, updates (2016)

●WTA: Critical decisions in trauma – Diagnosis and management of duodenal injuries (2015)

●WTA: Critical decisions in trauma – Management of abdominal vascular trauma (2015)

●EAST: Open abdomen management, review of abdominal wall reconstruction – Part 3 (2013)

●WTA: Critical decisions in trauma – Management of pancreatic injuries (2013)

●EAST: Practice management guidelines for the selective nonoperative management of blunt hepatic injury (2012)

●EAST: Practice management guidelines for the selective nonoperative management of blunt splenic injury (2012)

●EAST: Practice management guidelines on prophylactic antibiotic use in penetrating abdominal trauma (2012)

●American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP): Clinical policy – Critical issues in the evaluation of adult patients presenting to the emergency department with acute blunt abdominal trauma (2011)

●EAST: A review of open abdomen management – Part 2 (2011)

●WTA: Critical decisions in trauma – Operative management of adult blunt hepatic trauma (2011)

●EAST: Practice management guidelines for the management of the open abdomen in trauma and emergency general surgery – Part 1 (2010)

●EAST: Practice management guidelines for the selective non-operative management of penetrating abdominal trauma (2010)

●WTA: Critical decisions in trauma – Nonoperative management of adult blunt hepatic trauma (2009)

Japan

●[In English] Japanese Society of Interventional Radiology (JSIR) and Japanese Association for the Surgery of Trauma (JAST): IR guidelines for blunt hepatic trauma (2016)

●[In Japanese] JSIR and JAST: IR guidelines for blunt hepatic trauma (2016)

●[In Japanese] JSIR and JAST: IVR guidelines for liver trauma (2016)