WSES guidelines on blunt and penetrating bowel injury: diagnosis, investigations, and treatment

Abstract

The aim of this paper was to review the recent literature to create recommendations for the day-to-day diagnosis and surgical management of small bowel and colon injuries. Where knowledge gaps were identified, expert consensus was pursued during the 8th International Congress of the World Society of Emergency Surgery Annual (September 2021, Edinburgh). This process also aimed to guide future research.

Keywords: Blunt trauma; Bowel injury; Bowel injury diagnosis; Bowel injury management; Bowel trauma; CT diagnosis bowel injury; CT signs bowel injury; Penetrating trauma; Surgical management bowel injury.