TY - JOUR
T1 - Declaration on infection prevention and management in global surgery
AU - Sartelli, Massimo
AU - Coccolini, Federico
AU - Ansaloni, Luca
AU - Biffl, Walter L.
AU - Blake, David P.
AU - Boermeester, Marja A.
AU - Coimbra, Raul
AU - Evans, Heather L.
AU - Ferrada, Paula
AU - Gkiokas, George
AU - Jeschke, Marc G.
AU - Hardcastle, Timothy
AU - Hinson, Chandler
AU - Labricciosa, Francesco M.
AU - Marwah, Sanjay
AU - Marttos, Antonio C.
AU - Quiodettis, Martha
AU - Rasa, Kemal
AU - Ren, Jianan
AU - Rubio-Perez, Ines
AU - Sawyer, Robert
AU - Shelat, Vishal
AU - Upperman, Jeffrey S.
AU - Catena, Fausto
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/12/1
Y1 - 2023/12/1
N2 - Surgeons in their daily practice are at the forefront in preventing and managing infections. However, among surgeons, appropriate measures of infection prevention and management are often disregarded. The lack of awareness of infection and prevention measures has marginalized surgeons from this battle. Together, the Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery (GAIS), the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES), the Surgical Infection Society (SIS), the Surgical Infection Society-Europe (SIS-E), the World Surgical Infection Society (WSIS), the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), and the Panamerican Trauma Society (PTS) have jointly completed an international declaration, highlighting the threat posed by antimicrobial resistance globally and the need for preventing and managing infections appropriately across the surgical pathway. The authors representing these surgical societies call all surgeons around the world to participate in this global cause by pledging support for this declaration for maintaining the effectiveness of current and future antibiotics.
AB - Surgeons in their daily practice are at the forefront in preventing and managing infections. However, among surgeons, appropriate measures of infection prevention and management are often disregarded. The lack of awareness of infection and prevention measures has marginalized surgeons from this battle. Together, the Global Alliance for Infections in Surgery (GAIS), the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES), the Surgical Infection Society (SIS), the Surgical Infection Society-Europe (SIS-E), the World Surgical Infection Society (WSIS), the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST), and the Panamerican Trauma Society (PTS) have jointly completed an international declaration, highlighting the threat posed by antimicrobial resistance globally and the need for preventing and managing infections appropriately across the surgical pathway. The authors representing these surgical societies call all surgeons around the world to participate in this global cause by pledging support for this declaration for maintaining the effectiveness of current and future antibiotics.
KW - Antibiotic therapy
KW - Antimicrobial resistance
KW - Education
KW - Hospital-acquired infections
KW - Infection prevention and control
KW - Surgery
KW - Surgical antibiotic prophylaxis
KW - Surveillance
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13017-023-00526-3
DO - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13017-023-00526-3
M3 - Comment/Letter to the editor
C2 - 38057900
SN - 1749-7922
VL - 18
JO - World journal of emergency surgery
JF - World journal of emergency surgery
IS - 1
M1 - 56
ER -