WSES guidelines for management of Clostridium difficile infection in surgical patients

• Authors: SARTELLI Massimo; MALANGONI Mark A; ABU-ZIDAN Fikri M; GRIFFITHS Ewen A; BELLA Stefano Di; MCFARLAND Lynne V; ELTRINGHAM Ian; SHELAT Vishal G; VELMAHOS George C; KELLY Ciarán P; KHANNA Sahil; ABDELSATTAR Zaid M; ALRAHMANI Layan; ANSALONI Luca; AUGUSTIN Goran; BALA Miklosh; BARBUT Frédéric; BEN-ISHAY Offir; BHANGU Aneel; BIFFL Walter L; BRECHER Stephen M; CAMACHO-ORTIZ Adrián; CAÍNZOS Miguel A; CANTERBURY Laura A; CATENA Fausto; CHAN Shirley; CHERRY-BUKOWIEC Jill R; CLANTON Jesse; COCCOLINI Federico; COCUZ Maria Elena; COIMBRA Raul; COOK Charles H; CUI Yunfeng; CZEPIEL Jacek; DAS Koray; DEMETRASHVILI Zaza; CARLO Isidoro Di; SAVERIO Salomone Di; DUMITRU Irina Magdalena; ECKERT Catherine; ECKMANN Christian; EILAND Edward H; ENANI Mushira Abdulaziz; FARO Mario; FERRADA Paula; FORRESTER Joseph Derek; FRAGA Gustavo P; FROSSARD Jean Louis; GALEIRAS Rita; GHNNAM Wagih; GOMES Carlos Augusto; GORREPATI Venkata; AHMED Mohamed Hassan; HERZOG Torsten; HUMPHREY Felicia; KIM Jae Il; ISIK Arda; IVATURY Rao; LEE Yeong Yeh; JUANG Paul; FURUYA-KANAMORI Luis; KARAMARKOVIC Aleksandar; KIM Peter K; KLUGER Yoram; KO Wen Chien; LABARBERA Francis D; LEE Jae Gil; LEPPANIEMI Ari; LOHSIRIWAT Varut; MARWAH Sanjay; MAZUSKI John E; METAN Gokhan; MOORE Ernest E; MOORE Frederick Alan; NORD Carl Erik; ORDONEZ Carlos A; JÚNIOR Gerson Alves Pereira; PETROSILLO Nicola; PORTELA Francisco; PURI Basant K; RAY Arnab; RAZA Mansoor; REMS Miran; SAKAKUSHEV Boris E; SGANGA Gabriele; SPIGAGLIA Patrizia; STEWART David B; TATTEVIN Pierre; TIMSIT Jean Francois; TO Kathleen B; TRANA Cristian; UHL Waldemar; URBÁNEK Libor; GOOR Harry van; VASSALLO Angela; ZAHAR Jean Ralph; VIALE Emanuele Caproli Pierluigi
• Year of publication: 2015
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: WORLD JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY SURGERY
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Medicine
• Web: Web
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13017-015-0033-6
• Description: In the last two decades there have been dramatic changes in the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), with increases in incidence and severity of disease in many countries worldwide. The incidence of CDI has also increased in surgical patients. Optimization of management of C difficile, has therefore become increasingly urgent. An international multidisciplinary panel of experts prepared evidenced-based World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) guidelines for management of CDI in surgical patients.