Mark A. Malangoni

TL;DR: The Organ Injury Scaling (O.I.S.) Committee of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (A.A.S.T.) was appointed by President Trunkey at the 1987 Annual Meeting to devise injury severity scores for individual organs to facilitate clinical research.

TL;DR: The 2013 update of the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) guidelines for the management of intra-abdominal infections contains evidence-based recommendations for management of patients with intra-ABdominal infection as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The CIAOW study (Complicated intra-abdominal infections worldwide observational study) is a multicenter observational study underwent in 68 medical institutions worldwide during a six-month study period (October 2012-March 2013).

TL;DR: The operative volume of graduating surgical residents has increased by 21% since 2005; however, the number of operations done 10 times or greater has not changed; these results suggest that education in the operating room must improve and alternate methods for teaching infrequently performed procedures are needed.

TL;DR: This paper reports on the consensus conference on the management of intra-abdominal infections which was held on July 23, 2016, in Dublin, Ireland, as a part of the annual World Society of Emergency Surgery meeting.