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Guidelines for management of intra-abdominal infections.
Montravers, Philippe; Dupont, Herve; Leone, Marc et al.
2015In Anaesthesia, critical care & pain medicine, 34 (2), p. 117-30
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Keywords :
Community-Acquired Infections/diagnosis/therapy; Cross Infection/diagnosis/therapy; Humans; Intraabdominal Infections/diagnosis/therapy; Postoperative Complications/diagnosis/therapy
Abstract :
[en] Intra-abdominal infections are one of the most common gastrointestinal emergencies and a leading cause of septic shock. A consensus conference on the management of community-acquired peritonitis was published in 2000. A new consensus as well as new guidelines for less common situations such as peritonitis in paediatrics and healthcare-associated infections had become necessary. The objectives of these Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) were therefore to define the medical and surgical management of community-acquired intra-abdominal infections, define the specificities of intra-abdominal infections in children and describe the management of healthcare-associated infections. The literature review was divided into six main themes: diagnostic approach, infection source control, microbiological data, paediatric specificities, medical treatment of peritonitis, and management of complications. The GRADE((R)) methodology was applied to determine the level of evidence and the strength of recommendations. After summarising the work of the experts and application of the GRADE((R)) method, 62 recommendations were formally defined by the organisation committee. Recommendations were then submitted to and amended by a review committee. After 2 rounds of Delphi scoring and various amendments, a strong agreement was obtained for 44 (100%) recommendations. The CPGs for peritonitis are therefore based on a consensus between the various disciplines involved in the management of these patients concerning a number of themes such as: diagnostic strategy and the place of imaging; time to management; the place of microbiological specimens; targets of empirical anti-infective therapy; duration of anti-infective therapy. The CPGs also specified the value and the place of certain practices such as: the place of laparoscopy; the indications for image-guided percutaneous drainage; indications for the treatment of enterococci and fungi. The CPGs also confirmed the futility of certain practices such as: the use of diagnostic biomarkers; systematic relaparotomies; prolonged anti-infective therapy, especially in children.
Disciplines :
Anesthesia & intensive care
Author, co-author :
Montravers, Philippe
Dupont, Herve
Leone, Marc
Constantin, Jean-Michel
Mertes, Paul-Michel
Laterre, Pierre-Francois
Misset, Benoît ;  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > Service de Soins Intensifs
Bru, Jean-Pierre
Gauzit, Remy
Sotto, Albert
Brigand, Cecile
Hamy, Antoine
Tuech, Jean-Jacques
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Language :
English
Title :
Guidelines for management of intra-abdominal infections.
Publication date :
2015
Journal title :
Anaesthesia, critical care & pain medicine
ISSN :
2352-5568
eISSN :
2352-5568
Volume :
34
Issue :
2
Pages :
117-30
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Commentary :
Copyright (c) 2015 Societe francaise d'anesthesie et de reanimation (Sfar). Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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