Society guideline links: Gynecologic surgery

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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: Cervical cancer screening, prevention, and management" and "Society guideline links: Treatment of cervical cancer".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Ovarian, fallopian tube, and peritoneal cancer".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Uterine cancer".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Vulvar cancer and vaginal cancer".)

International

●AAGL: A practice guideline on evidence-based practice for minimization of blood loss during laparoscopic myomectomy (2025)

●International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO): Good practice recommendations to standardize the assessment of outcomes following vesicovaginal fistula surgery (2025)

●FIGO: Recommendations for the use of midurethral slings for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (2023)

●American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS)-International Urogynecological Association (IUGA): Joint clinical consensus statement on enhanced recovery after urogynecologic surgery (2022)

●Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society: Guidelines for perioperative care in elective abdominal and pelvic surgery at primary and secondary hospitals in low–middle-income countries (LMIC's) (2022)

●FIGO: Statement on disparities in patients' access to benign gynaecological surgery (2022)

●International Society for Gynecologic Endoscopy (ISGE): Guidelines on hysteroscopic myomectomy (2022)

●AAGL: White paper on enhanced recovery and surgical optimization protocol for minimally invasive gynecologic surgery (2021)

●AUGS and IUGA: Joint position statement on the management of mesh-related complications for the FPMRS specialist (2020)

●ERAS Society: Guidelines for vulvar and vaginal surgery (2020)

●ISGE: Evidence-based practical guidelines for vaginal hysterectomy (2020)

●ERAS Society: Guidelines for perioperative care in gynecologic/oncology, update (2019)

●FIGO: Review of statements on use of synthetic mesh (2019)

●ISGE: Literature review and recommendations for assessing the risk of laparoscopic morcellation of occult uterine sarcomas during hysterectomy and myomectomy (2018)

●ISGE: Principles of safe laparoscopic entry (2016)

Canada

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Guideline on endometrial ablation in the management of abnormal uterine bleeding (2024)

●SOGC: Guideline on hysteroscopic surgery in fertility therapy (2024)

●SOGC: Guideline on minimally invasive surgery in fertility therapy (2023)

●SOGC: Guideline for the prevention of venous thromboembolic disease in gynaecological surgery (2022)

●SOGC: Guideline for the surgical management of apical pelvic organ prolapse in women (2021)

●SOGC: Guideline on laparoscopic entry for gynaecological surgery (2021)

●SOGC: Committee opinion on mid-urethral slings for stress urinary incontinence (2019)

●SOGC: Guideline on gynaecologic surgery for patients with obesity (2019)

●SOGC: Guideline on hysterectomy for benign gynaecologic indications (2019)

●SOGC/Society of Gynecologic Oncology of Canada (GOC): Clinical practice guideline on morcellation during gynaecologic surgery – Its uses, complications, and risks of unsuspected malignancy (2019)

●SOGC: Clinical practice guideline on antibiotic prophylaxis in gynaecologic procedures (2012, reaffirmed 2018)

●SOGC: Clinical practice guideline on the surgical safety checklist in obstetrics and gynaecology (2013, reaffirmed 2018)

●SOGC: Guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of recurrent urinary incontinence following pelvic floor surgery (2010, reaffirmed 2017)

United States

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Committee opinion on ethical considerations for performing gynecologic surgery in low-resource settings abroad (2018, reaffirmed 2025)

●ACOG and American Urogynecologic Society (AUGS): Committee opinion on the management of mesh and graft complications in gynecologic surgery (2017, reaffirmed 2025)

●ACOG: Committee opinion on breast and labial surgery in adolescents (2017, reaffirmed 2024)

●ACOG: Committee opinion on gynecologic surgery in the obese woman (2015, reaffirmed 2024)

●ACOG: Committee opinion on opportunistic salpingectomy as a strategy for epithelial ovarian cancer prevention (2019, reaffirmed 2024)

●ACOG: Committee opinion on perioperative pathways – Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (2018, reaffirmed 2024)

●ACOG: Committee opinion on topical hemostatic agents at time of obstetric and gynecologic surgery (2020, reaffirmed 2024)

●ACOG: Committee opinion on uterine morcellation for presumed leiomyomas (2021, reaffirmed 2024)

●ACOG and AUGS: Committee opinion for the evaluation of uncomplicated stress urinary incontinence in women before surgical treatment (2014, reaffirmed 2024)

●AUGS: Position statement on restriction of surgical options for pelvic floor disorders (2024)

●Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES): Guidelines for the use of laparoscopy during pregnancy (2024)

•SAGES: Guidelines for the use of laparoscopy during pregnancy (2017)

●ACOG and American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists (AAGL): Committee opinion on the use of hysteroscopy for the diagnosis and treatment of intrauterine pathology (2020, reaffirmed 2023)

●ACOG and Society of Gynecologic Surgeons (SGS): Committee opinion on robot-assisted surgery for noncancerous gynecologic conditions (2020, reaffirmed 2023)

●American Urological Association (AUA)/Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine and Urogenital Reconstruction (SUFU): Guideline for the surgical treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) (2017, amended 2023)

●AUGS: Position statement on information and guidance on the adoption of surgical innovation and technology in urogynecology (2023)

●AUGS-International Urogynecological Association (IUGA): Joint clinical consensus statement on enhanced recovery after urogynecologic surgery (2022)

●ACOG: Committee opinion on choosing the route of hysterectomy for benign disease (2017, reaffirmed 2021)

●ACOG: Practice bulletin for the prevention of venous thromboembolism in gynecologic surgery (2021)

●American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM): Role of tubal surgery in the era of assisted reproductive technology – A committee opinion (2021)

●AUGS: Clinical practice statement on postoperative opioid prescribing after female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery (2021)

●AUGS: Consensus statement on cystoscopy at the time of prolapse repair (2018, reaffirmed 2021)

●AUGS: Guidance for improving surgical care and recovery in urogynecologic surgery (2021)

●AUGS-SUFU: Joint position statement on midurethral slings for stress urinary incontinence (2021)

●US Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) – Surgical mesh considerations and recommendations (2021)

●AUGS and IUGA: Joint position statement on the management of mesh-related complications for the FPMRS specialist (2020)

●ACOG: Practice bulletin on pelvic organ prolapse (2019)

●AUA: Position statement on the use of vaginal mesh for the surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) (2011, revised 2019)

●SGS: Uterine-preserving surgeries for the repair of pelvic organ prolapse – A systematic review with meta-analysis and clinical practice guidelines (2019)

●ACOG: Practice bulletin for the prevention of infection after gynecologic procedures (2018)

●SGS: Uterine preservation versus hysterectomy in pelvic organ prolapse surgery – A systematic review with meta-analysis and clinical practice guidelines (2018)

●SGS: Preemptive analgesia for postoperative hysterectomy pain control – Systematic review and clinical practice guidelines (2017)

Europe

●European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE): Guideline on endometriosis (2022)

●British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE)/European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE): Guideline on management of fluid distension media in operative hysteroscopy (2016)

United Kingdom

●Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG): Consent advice on morcellation for abdominal or laparoscopic myomectomy or hysterectomy (2019, updated 2024)

●RCOG: Green-top guideline on outpatient hysteroscopy, 2nd edition (2024)

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Interventional procedures guidance on vaginal transluminal endoscopic hysterectomy and adnexal surgery for benign gynaecological conditions (2023)

●RCOG: Good practice paper on pain relief and informed decision making for outpatient hysteroscopy (2023)

●RCOG: Scientific impact paper on robotic surgery in gynaecology (2022)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on hysteroscopic mechanical tissue removal (hysteroscopic morcellation) for uterine fibroids (2021)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on laparoscopic removal of uterine fibroids with power morcellation (2021)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on transcervical ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation for symptomatic uterine fibroids (2021)

●RCOG: Scientific impact paper on uterine transplantation (2021)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on bilateral cervicosacropexy (CESA) or vaginosacropexy (VASA) using mesh for pelvic organ prolapse (2020)

●British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE): Evidence-based guideline on laparoscopy in pregnancy (2019)

●NICE: Guideline on urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse in women – Management (2019)

●RCOG: Scientific impact paper on the effect of surgery for endometriomas on fertility (2017)

●BSGE/European Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (ESGE): Guideline on management of fluid distension media in operative hysteroscopy (2016)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on single-incision short sling mesh insertion for stress urinary incontinence in women (2016)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on hysteroscopic metroplasty of a uterine septum for primary infertility (2015)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on hysteroscopic metroplasty of a uterine septum for recurrent miscarriage (2015)

●RCOG/BSGE: Green-top guideline on post-hysterectomy vaginal vault prolapse, 2nd edition (2015)

●RCOG: Consent advice for laparoscopic management of tubal ectopic pregnancy (2010)

Australia–New Zealand

●Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG): Clinical guideline for managing the adnexa at the time of hysterectomy for benign gynaecological disease (2022, updated 2023)

●RANZCOG: Best practice statement on power morcellation at minimally invasive procedures (2022)

●RANZCOG: Clinical guidance statement on sacrocolpopexy (2022)

●RANZCOG: Position statement on midurethral slings (2020, amended 2022)

●RANZCOG: Clinical guidance statement on polypropylene vaginal mesh implants for vaginal prolapse (2021)

●RANZCOG/Australasian Gynaecological Endoscopy and Surgery (AGES) Society: Best practice statement on the use of the Veress needle to obtain pneumoperitoneum prior to laparoscopy (2021)

●RANZCOG: Useful guidance on uterine artery embolisation for the treatment of uterine fibroids (2020)

●RANZCOG: Guidelines for performing gynaecological endoscopic procedures (2019)

●RANZCOG/AGES Society: Position statement on robotic-assisted laparoscopy (2017)

Japan

●[In English] Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG) and Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (JAOG): Guideline for gynecological practice in Japan, 2023 edition (published 2024)

●[In Japanese] JSOG and JAOG: Obstetrics and gynecology clinical practice guidelines – Gynecology outpatient edition (2023)

●[In Japanese] Japanese Society of Interventional Radiology (JSIR): Uterine artery embolization (UAE) guidelines for symptomatic uterine fibroids (2021)