Society guideline links: Acute pancreatitis

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: Chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic exocrine insufficiency".)

International

●World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES): Guidelines for the management of severe acute pancreatitis (2019)

●International Association of Pancreatology (IAP)/American Pancreatic Association (APA): Evidence-based guidelines for the management of acute pancreatitis (2013)

●International Consensus Guideline Committee (ICGC): International consensus guidelines for nutrition therapy in pancreatitis (2012)

United States

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria acute pancreatitis (revised 2019)

●American Gastroenterological Association (AGA): Guideline on initial management of acute pancreatitis (2018)

●American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE): Guideline on the role of endoscopy in benign pancreatic disease (2015)

●American College of Gastroenterology (ACG): Guideline for the management of acute pancreatitis (2013)

●International Association of Pancreatology (IAP)/American Pancreatic Association (APA): Evidence-based guidelines for the management of acute pancreatitis (2013)

Europe

●European Society of Clinical Nutritional and Metabolism (ESPEN): Guideline on clinical nutrition in acute and chronic pancreatitis (2020)

●European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE): Guideline on ERCP-related adverse events (2020)

●ESGE: evidence-based multidisciplinary guidelines for the endoscopic management of acute necrotizing pancreatitis (2018)

●ESGE: Clinical guideline on papillary cannulation and sphincterotomy techniques at ERCP (2016)

●ESGE: Guideline on prophylaxis of post-ERCP pancreatitis, update (2014)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on pancreatitis (2018, updated 2020)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on endoscopic transluminal pancreatic necrosectomy (2016)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on percutaneous retroperitoneal endoscopic necrosectomy (2011)

Japan

●[In English] Japanese Society of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery (JSHBPS): Revised Japanese guidelines for the management of acute pancreatitis – Revised concepts and updated points (2015)

•[In English] JSHBPS: Japanese guidelines for the management of acute pancreatitis (2015)

●[In Japanese] Diagnosis/treatment consensus for local pancreatitis complications (pancreatic pseudocyst, infectious encapsulation necrosis, etc), 2014 (published 2015)

●[In Japanese] Japanese Pancreas Society (JPS): Post-ERCP pancreatitis guideline (2015)

●[In Japanese] JSHBPS: Revisions in the 2015 Japanese guidelines for the management of acute pancreatitis – Medical treatments (published 2015)

•[In Japanese] JSHBPS: Acute pancreatitis clinical practice guidelines, 4th edition (2015)

●[In English] Consensus of primary care in acute pancreatitis in Japan (2006)

●[In English] Japanese Society of Emergency Abdominal Medicine (JSEAM) and JPS: JPN guidelines for the management of acute pancreatitis (2006)