WSES guidelines for management of Clostridium difficile infection in surgical patients

Massimo Sartelli , Mark A. Malangoni , Fikri M. Abu-Zidan , Ewen A. Griffiths , Stefano Di Bella , Lynne V. Mcfarland , Ian Eltringham , Vishal G. Shelat , George C. Velmahos , Ciarán P. Kelly , Sahil Khanna , Zaid M. Abdelsattar , Layan Alrahmani , Luca Ansaloni , Goran Augustin , Miklosh Bala , Frédéric Barbut , Offir Ben-Ishay , Aneel Bhangu , Walter L. Biffl , Stephen M. Brecher , Adrián Camacho-Ortiz , Miguel A. Caínzos , Laura A. Canterbury , Fausto Catena , Shirley Chan , Jill R. Cherry-Bukowiec , Jesse Clanton , Federico Coccolini , Maria Elena Cocuz , Raul Coimbra , Charles H. Cook , Yunfeng Cui , Jacek Czepiel , Koray Das , Zaza Demetrashvili , Isidoro Di Carlo , Salomone Di Saverio , Irina Magdalena Dumitru , Catherine Eckert (1) , Christian Eckmann , Edward H. Eiland , Mushira Abdulaziz Enani , Mario Faro , Paula Ferrada , Joseph Derek Forrester , Gustavo P. Fraga , Jean Louis Frossard , Rita Galeiras , Wagih Ghnnam , Carlos Augusto Gomes , Venkata Gorrepati , Mohamed Hassan Ahmed , Torsten Herzog , Felicia Humphrey , Jae Il Kim , Arda Isik , Rao Ivatury , Yeong Yeh Lee , Paul Juang , Luis Furuya-Kanamori , Aleksandar Karamarkovic , Peter K. Kim , Yoram Kluger , Wen Chien Ko , Francis D. Labarbera , Jae Gil Lee , Ari Leppaniemi , Varut Lohsiriwat , Sanjay Marwah , John E. Mazuski , Gokhan Metan , Ernest E. Moore , Frederick Alan Moore , Carl Erik Nord , Carlos A. Ordoñez , Gerson Alves Pereira Júnior , Nicola Petrosillo , Francisco Portela , Basant K. Puri , Arnab Ray , Mansoor Raza , Miran Rems , Boris E. Sakakushev , Gabriele Sganga , Patrizia Spigaglia , David B. Stewart , Pierre Tattevin (2, 3) , Jean François Timsit (4) , Kathleen B. To , Cristian Tranà , Waldemar Uhl , Libor Urbánek , Harry Van Goor , Angela Vassallo , Jean Ralph Zahar (5) , Emanuele Caproli , Pierluigi Viale (6)

1 CRC (UMR_S 872) - Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers
2 Service des maladies infectieuses
3 Fonction, structure et inactivation d'ARN bactériens
4 Hôpital Bichat - Claude Bernard
5 CHU Angers - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire d'Angers
6 Department of Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Nephrologic Diseases, Section of Infectious Diseases, S.Orsola-Malpighi Hospital

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

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Massimo Sartelli, Mark A. Malangoni, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Ewen A. Griffiths, Stefano Di Bella, et al.. WSES guidelines for management of Clostridium difficile infection in surgical patients. World Journal of Emergency Surgery, 2015, 10 (1), pp.38. ⟨10.1186/s13017-015-0033-6⟩. ⟨hal-01191655⟩