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2019 update of the WSES guidelines for management of Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile infection in surgical patients

  • Massimo Sartelli
  • , Stefano Di Bella
  • , Lynne V. McFarland
  • , Sahil Khanna
  • , Luis Furuya-Kanamori
  • , Nadir Abuzeid
  • , Fikri M. Abu-Zidan
  • , Luca Ansaloni
  • , Goran Augustin
  • , Miklosh Bala
  • , Offir Ben-Ishay
  • , Walter L. Biffl
  • , Stephen M. Brecher
  • , Adrián Camacho-Ortiz
  • , Miguel A. Caínzos
  • , Shirley Chan
  • , Jill R. Cherry-Bukowiec
  • , Jesse Clanton
  • , Federico Coccolini
  • , Maria E. Cocuz
  • Raul Coimbra, Francesco Cortese, Yunfeng Cui, Jacek Czepiel, Zaza Demetrashvili, Isidoro Di Carlo, Salomone Di Saverio, Irina M. Dumitru, Christian Eckmann, Edward H. Eiland, Joseph D. Forrester, Gustavo P. Fraga, Jean L. Frossard, Donald E. Fry, Rita Galeiras, Wagih Ghnnam, Carlos A. Gomes, Ewen A. Griffiths, Xavier Guirao, Mohamed H. Ahmed, Torsten Herzog, Jae Il Kim, Tariq Iqbal, Arda Isik, Kamal M.F. Itani, Francesco M. Labricciosa, Yeong Y. Lee, Paul Juang, Aleksandar Karamarkovic, Peter K. Kim, Yoram Kluger, Ari Leppaniemi, Varut Lohsiriwat, Gustavo M. MacHain, Sanjay Marwah, John E. Mazuski, Gokhan Metan, Ernest E. Moore, Frederick A. Moore, Carlos A. Ordoñez, Leonardo Pagani, Nicola Petrosillo, Francisco Portela, Kemal Rasa, Miran Rems, Boris E. Sakakushev, Helmut Segovia-Lohse, Gabriele Sganga, Vishal G. Shelat, Patrizia Spigaglia, Pierre Tattevin, Cristian Tranà, Libor Urbánek, Jan Ulrych, Pierluigi Viale, Gian L. Baiocchi, Fausto Catena
  • Department of Surgery
  • Macerata Hospital
  • Infectious Diseases Department
  • Trieste University Hospital
  • Department of Medicinal Chemistry
  • University of Washington
  • Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • Mayo Clinic
  • Research School of Population Health
  • Australian National University
  • Department of Microbiology
  • Omdurman Islamic University
  • Department of Surgery
  • College of Medicine and Health Sciences United Arab Emirates University
  • Department of General Surgery
  • Bufalini Hospital
  • Department of Surgery
  • University Hospital Centre Zagreb and School of Medicine
  • Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Unit
  • Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center
  • Department of General Surgery
  • Rambam Health Care Campus
  • Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
  • Scripps Memorial Hospital
  • Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
  • Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
  • Department of Internal Medicine
  • University Hospital
  • Department of Surgery
  • University of Santiago de Compostela
  • Department of General Surgery
  • Medway Maritime Hospital
  • Department of Surgery
  • University of Michigan Medical School
  • Department of Surgery
  • WVU School of Pharmacy
  • Faculty of Medicine
  • Transilvania University
  • Loma Linda University School of Medicine
  • Emergency Surgery Unit
  • San Filippo Neri's Hospital
  • Department of Surgery
  • Tianjin Medical University
  • Department of Infectious Diseases
  • Jagiellonian University Medical College
  • Department of Surgery
  • Tbilisi State Medical University
  • Department of Surgical Sciences
  • University of Catania
  • Department of Surgery
  • Addenbrooke's Hospital
  • Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital
  • Ovidius University of Constanta
  • Department of General
  • Medizinische Hochschule
  • Vital Care Inc
  • Department of Surgery
  • Stanford University
  • Division of Trauma Surgery
  • University of Campinas
  • Service of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • Geneva University Hospital
  • Department of Surgery
  • Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
  • University of New Mexico School of Medicine
  • Critical Care Unit
  • Universidade da Coruña (UDC)
  • Faculty of Medicine
  • Surgery Department
  • Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
  • Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
  • Unit of Endocrine Head
  • Hospital Universitari
  • Department of Medicine
  • Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Department of Surgery
  • Ruhr University Bochum
  • Department of Surgery
  • Inje University College of Medicine
  • Department of Gastroenterology
  • UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital
  • Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery
  • School of Medical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia
  • University Clinical Center Zvezdara Belgrade
  • University of Belgrade
  • Department of Surgery
  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  • Abdominal Center
  • Helsinki University Hospital
  • Department of Surgery
  • Mahidol University
  • Department of Surgery
  • Universidad Nacional de Asuncion
  • Department of Surgery
  • Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences
  • Section of Acute and Critical Care Surgery
  • Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
  • Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology
  • Hacettepe University
  • Department of Surgery
  • University of Colorado
  • University of Florida College of Medicine
  • Universidad Del Valle
  • Infectious Diseases Unit
  • Bolzano Central Hospital
  • National Institute for Infectious Diseases - INMI - Lazzaro Spallanzani IRCCS
  • Gastroenterology Department
  • Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra
  • Department of Surgery
  • Anadolu Medical Center
  • Department of Abdominal and General Surgery
  • General Hospital Jesenice
  • Department of Surgery
  • Medical University of Plovdiv
  • Division of Emergency Surgery
  • Policlinico Universitario A Gemelli
  • Department of Surgery
  • Tan Tock Seng Hospital
  • Department of Infectious Diseases
  • Istituto Superiore di Sanità
  • Infectious Diseases and Intensive Care Unit
  • Pontchaillou University Hospital
  • First Department of Surgery
  • Masaryk University Brno
  • First Department of Surgery
  • Charles University in Prague
  • Clinic of Infectious Diseases
  • Sant'Orsola Malpighi Hospital
  • Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences
  • University of Brescia
  • Emergency Surgery Department
  • Maggiore Parma Hospital

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

Original languageEnglish
Article number8
JournalWorld Journal of Emergency Surgery
Volume14
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 28 2019

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Surgery
  • Emergency Medicine

Keywords

  • Antimicrobial stewardship
  • Antimicrobial treatment
  • Clostridioides difficile infection
  • Clostridium difficile infection
  • Fecal microbiota transplantation
  • Infection control
  • Pseudomembranous colitis

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