IROA: the International Register of Open Abdomen.: An international effort to better understand the open abdomen: call for participants.
Actually the most common indications for Open Abdomen (OA) are trauma, abdominal sepsis, severe acute pancreatitis and more in general all those situations in which an intra-abdominal hypertension condition is present, in order to prevent the development of an abdominal compartment syndrome. The mortality and morbidity rate in patients undergone to OA procedures is still high. At present many studies have been published about the OA management and the progresses in survival rate of critically ill trauma and septic surgical patients. However several issues are still unclear and need more extensive studies. The definitions of indications, applications and methods to close the OA are still matter of debate. To overcome this lack of high level of evidence data about the OA indications, management, definitive closure and follow-up, the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) promoted the International Register of Open Abdomen (IROA). The register will be held on a web platform (Clinical Registers®) through a dedicated web site: www.clinicalregisters.org. This will allow to all surgeons and physicians to participate from all around the world only by having a computer and a web connection. The IROA protocol has been approved by the coordinating center Ethical Committee (Papa Giovanni XXIII hospital, Bergamo, Italy). IROA has also been registered to ClinicalTrials.gov (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02382770).
General Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Piazza OMS 1, 24127 Bergamo, Italy.
Federico
F
Coccolini
General Surgery Department, Ospedale Maggiore, Parma, Italy.
Fausto
F
Catena
General Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Piazza OMS 1, 24127 Bergamo, Italy.
Giulia
G
Montori
General Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Piazza OMS 1, 24127 Bergamo, Italy.
Marco
M
Ceresoli
General Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Piazza OMS 1, 24127 Bergamo, Italy.
Roberto
R
Manfredi
General Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Piazza OMS 1, 24127 Bergamo, Italy.
Gabriela Elisa
GE
Nita
Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado USA.
Ernest E
EE
Moore
Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado USA.
Walter
W
Biffl
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia USA.
Rao
R
Ivatury
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia USA.
James
J
Whelan
Campinas Medical School, Campinas University, Campinas, Brazil.
Gustavo
G
Fraga
Department of Abdominal Surgery, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Ari
A
Leppaniemi
General Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy.
Massimo
M
Sartelli
General, Emergency and Trauma surgery, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
Salomone
S
Di Saverio
General Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Piazza OMS 1, 24127 Bergamo, Italy.
Luca
L
Ansaloni
Management; Open abdomen; Pancreatitis; Peritonitis; Register; Surgery; Trauma