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: Thoracic trauma" and "Society guideline links: Traumatic abdominal and non-genitourinary retroperitoneal injury" and "Society guideline links: Esophagectomy".)
International
●World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES): Guidelines on perforated and bleeding peptic ulcer (2020)
●WSES: Guidelines on esophageal emergencies (2019)
●WSES: 2017 guidelines for the management of iatrogenic colonoscopy perforation (published 2018)
●Surgical Infection Society (SIS): Revised guidelines on the management of intra-abdominal infection (2016)
●WSES: Position paper on oesophageal injuries, 2013 (published 2014)
●WSES: Guidelines for management of intra-abdominal infections (2013)
●WSES: Position paper on the management of perforated sigmoid diverticulitis (2013)
Canada
United States
●ASGE: Guideline on adverse events of upper GI endoscopy (2012)
Europe
Australia–New Zealand
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