Society guideline links: Severe blunt or penetrating extremity trauma

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".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Extremity compartment syndrome".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Acute extremity ischemia".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Lower extremity (excluding hip) fractures in adults".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Fractures of the skull, face, and upper extremity in adults".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Superficial vein thrombosis, deep vein thrombosis, and pulmonary embolism".)

International

●American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST)–World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES): Guidelines on diagnosis and management of peripheral vascular injuries (2020)

United States

●American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT), American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), and National Association of EMS Physicians (NAEMSP): Prehospital hemorrhage control and treatment by clinicians – A joint position statement (2023)

●American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS): Guideline for the prevention of surgical site infection after extremity trauma (2022)

●American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST)–World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES): Guidelines on diagnosis and management of peripheral vascular injuries (2020)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on acute trauma to the ankle (revised 2020)

●Joint Trauma System (JTS): Clinical practice guideline on orthopaedic trauma – Extremity fractures (2020)

●AAOS and Major Extremity Trauma and Rehabilitation Consortium (METRC): Limb salvage or early amputation – Evidence-based clinical practice guideline (2019)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on acute trauma to the foot (revised 2019)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on acute trauma to the knee (revised 2019)

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on acute hand and wrist trauma (revised 2018)

●American College of Surgeons (ACS) Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP): Best practices in the management of orthopaedic trauma (2015)

●ACS-COT: An evidence-based prehospital guideline for external hemorrhage control (2014)

●Western Trauma Association (WTA): Critical decisions in trauma – Evaluation and management of peripheral vascular injury, Part II (2013)

●Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST): Practice management guideline for the evaluation and management of penetrating lower extremity arterial trauma (2012)

●WTA: Critical decisions in trauma – Management of the mangled extremity (2012)

●EAST: Update to practice management guidelines for prophylactic antibiotic use in open fractures (2011)

●WTA: Critical decisions in trauma – Evaluation and management of peripheral vascular injury: Part 1 (2011)

Europe

●Guidelines for the acute care of severe limb trauma patients (2021)

●European Renal Association (ERA)-European Dialysis and Transplant Association (EDTA): Recommendations for the management of crush victims in mass disasters (2012)

United Kingdom

●British Orthopaedic Association (BOA): Standards for the diagnosis & management of arterial injuries associated with extremity fractures and dislocations (2020, updated 2021)

●BOA and British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS): Audit standards for trauma – Open fractures (2017)