Society guideline links: Pelvic 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" and "Society guideline links: Genitourinary tract trauma in adults".)

International

●World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES): Classification and guidelines on pelvic trauma (2017)

●Italian Society of Surgery (SIC), Italian Association of Hospital Surgeons (ACOI), Multi-specialist Italian Society of Young Surgeons (SPIGC), Italian Society of Emergency Surgery and Trauma (SICUT), Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care (SIAARTI), Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (SIOT), the Italian Society of Emergency Medicine (SIMEU), Italian Society of Medical Radiology (SIRM), and WSES: Cooperative guidelines for the management of hemodynamically unstable pelvic trauma – Results of the first Italian consensus conference (2014)

Canada

●Specialist Trauma Advisory Network of BC (STAN): Clinical practice guideline for the management of pelvic ring injury in adults with hemodynamic instability (2019)

United States

●Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST): A systematic review, meta-analysis, and practice management guideline on preperitoneal packing for pelvic fracture-associated hemorrhage (2020)

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

●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on acute hip pain – Suspected fracture (revised 2018)

●Joint Trauma System (JTS): Clinical practice guideline on pelvic fracture care (2017)

●Western Trauma Association (WTA): Critical decisions in trauma – Management of pelvic fracture with hemodynamic instability, updates (2016)

●EAST: Practice management guidelines for hemorrhage in pelvic fracture – Update and systematic review (2011)

●WTA: Critical decisions in trauma – Management of pelvic fracture with hemodynamic instability (2008)

United Kingdom

●British Orthopaedic Association (BOA): Audit standards for trauma – The management of patients with pelvic fractures (2018)

●BOA: Audit standards for trauma – The management of urological trauma associated with pelvic fractures (2016)