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Sartelli M, Coccolini F, Abu-Zidan FM, Ansaloni L, Bartoli S, Biffl W, Borghi F, Chouillard E, Cui Y, Nascimento RDO, De Simone B, Di Saverio S, Duane T, Eckmann C, Eid HO, Gomes CA, Gomes FC, Hecker A, Hecker B, Isik A, Itani KMF, Leppaniemi A, Litvin A, Luppi D, Maier R, Manzano-Nunez R, Marwah S, Mazuski J, Moore E, Perrone G, Rasa K, Rubio I, Sawyer R, Labricciosa FM, Catena F. Hey surgeons! It is time to lead and be a champion in preventing and managing surgical infections! World J Emerg Surg 2020; 15:28. [PMID: 32306979 PMCID: PMC7168830 DOI: 10.1186/s13017-020-00308-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2020] [Accepted: 04/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Appropriate measures of infection prevention and management are integral to optimal clinical practice and standards of care. Among surgeons, these measures are often over-looked. However, surgeons are at the forefront in preventing and managing infections. Surgeons are responsible for many of the processes of healthcare that impact the risk for surgical site infections and play a key role in their prevention. Surgeons are also at the forefront in managing patients with infections, who often need prompt source control and appropriate antibiotic therapy, and are directly responsible for their outcome. In this context, the direct leadership of surgeons in infection prevention and management is of utmost importance. In order to disseminate worldwide this message, the editorial has been translated into 9 different languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, and Turkish).
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- General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery Department, Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates
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- General Surgery Department, Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy
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- Department of Vascular Surgery, Sant'Eugenio Hospital, Rome, Italy
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- Trauma Surgery Department, Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Surgery, General and Oncologic Surgery Unit, Santa Croce e Carle Hospital, Cuneo, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, Poissy Saint Germain Medical Center, Poissy, France
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- Department of Surgery, Tianjin Nankai Hospital, Nankai Clinical School of Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Surgery, Poissy Saint Germain Medical Center, Poissy, France
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- Cambridge Colorectal Unit, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Hills Road, Cambridge, UK.,Department of General Surgery, University Hospital of Varese, ASST SetteLaghi, RegioneLombardia, Varese, Italy
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- Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, Klinikum Hannoversch-Münden Academic Hospital of Goettingen University, Goettingen, Germany
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Mediclinic Middle East, Airport Road Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Surgery, Hospital Universitário Terezinha de Jesus, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas e da Saúde de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
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- Cirurgia Geral Hospital Lifecenter Belo Horizonte, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Saint Josef Hospital, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Erzincan University, Erzincan, Turkey
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- Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Abdominal Center, University Hospital Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland
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- Surgical Disciplines, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University/Regional Clinical Hospital, Kaliningrad, Russian Federation
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- Department of General and Emergency Surgery, ASMN Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Surgery, Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, India
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- Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Washington University, Saint Louis, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Colorado, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
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- Department of Emergency Surgery, Parma Maggiore Hospital, Parma, Italy
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- Department of Surgery, Anadolu Medical Center, Kocaali, Turkey
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- General Surgery Department, Colorectal Surgery Unit, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Surgery, Western Michigan University School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, MI, USA
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- Department of Emergency Surgery, Parma Maggiore Hospital, Parma, Italy
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Hecker A, Schneck E, Röhrig R, Roller F, Hecker B, Holler J, Koch C, Hecker M, Reichert M, Lichtenstern C, Krombach GA, Padberg W, Weigand MA. The impact of early surgical intervention in free intestinal perforation: a time-to-intervention pilot study. World J Emerg Surg 2015; 10:54. [PMID: 26550026 PMCID: PMC4636838 DOI: 10.1186/s13017-015-0047-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2015] [Accepted: 10/23/2015] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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PURPOSES An abdominal inflammatory focus is the second most often source of sepsis with a high risk of death in surgical intensive care units. By establishing evidence-based bundled strategies the surviving sepsis campaign provided an optimized rapid and continuous treatment of these emergency patients. Hereby the hospital mortality decreased from 35 to 30 %. Sepsis treatment is based on three major therapeutic elements: surgical treatment (source control), antiinfective treatment, and supportive care. The international guidelines of the surviving sepsis campaign were updated recently and recommend rapid diagnosis of the infection and source control within the first 12 h after the diagnosis (grade 1c). Interestingly this recommendation is mainly based on studies on soft tissue infections. METHODS In this retrospective analysis 76 septic patients with an intraabdominal inflammatory focus were included. All patients underwent surgery at different time-points after diagnosis. RESULTS With 80 % patients of the early intervention group had an improved overall survival (vs. 73 % in the late intervention group). CONCLUSIONS Literature on the time dependency of early source control is rare and in part contradicting. Results of this pilot study reveal that immediate surgical intervention might be of advantage for septic emergency patients. Further multi-center approaches will be necessary to evaluate, whether the TTI has any impact on the outcome of septic patients with intestinal perforation.
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- Andreas Hecker
- Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Street 7, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Surgical Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Street 7, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Surgical Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Street 7, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, University Hospital Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Street 7, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Surgical Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Street 7, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Street 7, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Surgical Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Street 7, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Street 7, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Street 7, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Surgical Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Street 7, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Radiology, University Hospital Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Street 7, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Street 7, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Surgical Intensive Care Medicine and Pain Therapy, University Hospital Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Street 7, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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Hecker A, Hecker B, Hecker M, Riedel JG, Weigand MA, Padberg W. Acute abdominal compartment syndrome: current diagnostic and therapeutic options. Langenbecks Arch Surg 2015; 401:15-24. [PMID: 26518567 DOI: 10.1007/s00423-015-1353-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2015] [Accepted: 10/22/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND If untreated, the abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) has a mortality of nearly 100 %. Thus, its early recognition is of major importance for daily rounds on surgical intensive care units. Intraabdominal hypertension (IAH) is a poorly recognized entity, which occurs if intraabdominal pressure arises >12 mmHg. Measurement of the intravesical pressure is the gold standard to diagnose IAH, which can be detected in about one fourth of surgical intensive care patients. PURPOSE The aim of this manuscript is to outline the current diagnostic and therapeutic options for IAH and ACS. While diagnosis of IAH and ACS strongly depends on clinical experience, new diagnostic markers could play an important role in the future. Therapy of IAH/ACS consists of five treatment "columns": intraluminal evacuation, intraabdominal evacuation, improvement of abdominal wall compliance, fluid management, and improved organ perfusion. If conservative therapy fails, emergency laparotomy is the most effective therapeutic approach to achieve abdominal decompression. Thereafter, patients with an open abdomen require intensive care and are permanently threatened by the quadrangle of fluid loss, muscle proteolysis, heat loss, and an impaired immune function. As a consequence, complication rate dramatically increases after 8 days of open abdomen therapy. CONCLUSION Despite many efforts, the mortality of patients with ACS remains unacceptably high. Permanent clinical education and surgical trials will be necessary to improve the outcome of our critically ill surgical patients.
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- A Hecker
- Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Street 7, 35392, Giessen, Germany.
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Medical Clinic II, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University Hospital of Giessen, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Street 7, 35392, Giessen, Germany
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Street 7, 35392, Giessen, Germany
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Hecker A, Hecker B, Bassaly B, Hirschburger M, Schwandner T, Janssen H, Padberg W. Dramatic regression and bleeding of a duodenal GIST during preoperative imatinib therapy: case report and review. World J Surg Oncol 2010; 8:47. [PMID: 20515511 PMCID: PMC2889990 DOI: 10.1186/1477-7819-8-47] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2010] [Accepted: 06/02/2010] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Background Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the digestive tract. The majority of GISTs is located in the stomach. Only 3-5% of GISTs are located in the duodenum associated with an increased risk of gastrointestinal bleeding as primary manifestation. With response rates of up to 90%, but complications like bleeding due to tumor necrosis in 3%, imatinib mesylate dramatically altered the pre- and postoperative therapy for GIST patients. Case presentation A 58-year-old female patient presented with acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding 2 weeks after a giant GIST of the duodenum had been diagnosed. Neoadjuvant imatinib therapy had been initiated to achieve a tumor downsizing prior to surgery. During emergency laparotomy a partial duodenopancreatectomy was performed to achieve a complete resection of the mass. Histology revealed a high-malignancy GIST infiltrating the duodenal wall. Adjuvant imatinib therapy was initiated. At follow-up (19 months) the patient is still alive and healthy. Conclusion Giant GISTs of the duodenum are rare and - in contrast to other localizations - harbour a higher risk of serious bleeding as primary manifestation. Tumor necrosis and tumor bleeding are rare but typical adverse effects of imatinib therapy especially during treatment of high-malignancy GIST. In GIST patients with increased risk of tumor bleeding neoadjuvant imatinib therapy should thoroughly be performed during hospitalization. In cases of duodenal GIST primary surgery should be considered as treatment alternative.
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- Andreas Hecker
- Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Giessen, Rudolf-Buchheim-Street 7, 35392 Giessen, Germany
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Peters J, Hecker B, Neuser D, Schaden W. Regional blood volume distribution during positive and negative airway pressure breathing in supine humans. J Appl Physiol (1985) 1993; 75:1740-7. [PMID: 8282628 DOI: 10.1152/jappl.1993.75.4.1740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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To assess the effects of continuous positive (CPAP) or negative airway pressure (CNAP) breathing (+/- 10-12 cmH2O, duration 25 min) on blood content in the body's capacitance vasculature, regional distribution of labeled red blood cells was evaluated in seven spontaneously breathing supine volunteers. Counts were acquired by whole body scans and detectors overlying the liver, intestine, left ventricle, and lower arm, and arterial pressure, heart rate, calf blood flow and vascular resistance, hematocrit, vasopressin, and atrial natriuretic peptide plasma concentrations were also obtained. With CPAP, thoracic, cardiac, and left ventricular counts diminished significantly by 7-10%, were accompanied by significant increases in counts over both the gut and liver, and remained decreased during CPAP but reversed to baseline with zero airway pressure. Calf blood flow and vascular resistance significantly decreased and increased, respectively, whereas limb counts, arterial pressure, heart rate, and hormone concentrations remained unchanged. With CNAP, in contrast, regional counts and other variables did not change. Thus, moderate levels of CPAP deplete the intrathoracic vascular bed and heart, shifting blood toward the gut and liver but not toward the limbs. No short-term compensation increasing cardiac filling during CPAP was seen. In contrast, CNAP did not alter intrathoracic or organ blood content and, therefore, does not simply mirror the effects evoked by CPAP.
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- J Peters
- Institute für Experimentelle und Klinische Anästhesiologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
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