Guidelines: Acute Care Surgery

• EAST Practice Management Guidelines. Evidence-based guidelines developed and published by EAST. Covers EGS, ICU, trauma, and injury prevention.

• SurgicalCriticalCare.Net. Evidence-based guidelines from Orlando Regional Medical Center. 

• Vanderbilt Trauma and Surgical Critical Care Practice Management Guidelines. Evidence-based guidelines developed by Vanderbilt. Covers trauma and surgical critical care topics.

• Evidence-Based Decisions in Surgery. This does require membership with the American College of Surgeons.

Guidelines: Trauma

• American College of Surgeons (ACS) Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) Best Practice Guidelines

  • Imaging

  • Management of Traumatic Brain Injury

  • Management of Orthopaedic Trauma

  • Management of Geriatric Trauma

  • Massive Transfusion in Trauma

  • Recognition of Child Abuse, Elder Abuse, and Intimate Partner Violence

  • Palliative Care

• Western Trauma Association Algorithms. Evidence-based critical decision algorithms in trauma.

• Pediatric Trauma Society. Guidelines and educational resources.

• Brain Trauma Foundation Guidelines. Concussion, prehospital and surgical management of TBI, pediatric TBI, prognosis in TBI, combat-related head trauma.

• Joint Trauma System: Clinical Practice Guidelines. Evidence-based guidelines developed by subject matter experts from both the military and civilian communities.

Guidelines: Critical Care

• CHEST Guidelines. Topics addressed include: Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), venous thromboembolism (VTE), and liberation from mechanical ventilation.

  • Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease: Executive Summary (2021)

• SCCM Guidelines. Topics addressed include: Surviving Sepsis, management of pain/ agitation/ delirium, nutrition, critical-illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency, etc.

• Infectious Disease Society of America.

• Critical Care Nutrition. Nutrition guidelines and bedside tools (i.e., Nutric score).

• European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN).

Guidelines: Emergency General Surgery

• World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES). Guidelines and reviews covering topics including trauma, pancreatitis, colitis, cholecystitis, and large bowel malignancy, and many others.

• American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS) Clinical Practice Guidelines. Guidelines on common colo-rectal diseases such as diverticulitis, preoperative bowel preparation, hemorrhoids, and colorectal cancer.

• Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Guidelines and Clinical Reviews. Guidelines include cholecystitis, ERAS protocol, choledocholithiasis, laparoscopy, to name a few.

• American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE). Evaluation, diagnosis and management of patients undergoing GI endoscopy.