Society guideline links: Abdominal compartment syndrome

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: Acute kidney injury in adults" and "Society guideline links: Ventral hernia" and "Society guideline links: Traumatic abdominal and non-genitourinary retroperitoneal injury".)

International

●World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES): Guidelines on the open abdomen in trauma and non-trauma patients (2018)

●WSES: Consensus paper on the role of open abdomen in non-trauma patient (2017)

●WSES: Guidelines for management of intraabdominal infections from a global perspective (2017)

●World Society of the Abdominal Compartment Syndrome (WSACS): Updated consensus definitions and clinical practice guidelines on intra-abdominal hypertension and the abdominal compartment syndrome (2013)

●WSES: Guidelines for management of intra-abdominal infections (2013)

Canada

●Canadian Surgical Society (CSS) and the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (AMMI) Canada: Canadian practice guidelines for surgical intra-abdominal infections (2010)

United States

●Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST): A systematic review with meta-analysis and practice management guideline for the management of the open abdomen (2022)

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

Europe

●A clinician's guide to management of intraabdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome in critically ill patients (2020)

●European Hernia Society (EHS): Clinical guidelines on the management of the abdominal wall in the context of the open or burst abdomen (2018)

●European Burns Association (EBA): European practice guidelines for burn care (2017)

United Kingdom

●Abdominal compartment syndrome in burns patients: Introduction of an evidence-based management guideline and algorithm (2021)