Executive summary: WSES Guidelines for the management of severe acute pancreatitis

Ari Leppäniemi¹, Matti Tolonen, Antonio Tarasconi+16

• ¹From the Abdominal Center (A.L., M.T.), Helsinki University Hospital Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Emergency Surgery (A.T., F.C.), Parma Maggiore Hospital, Parma, Italy; Hospital de Clinicas (H.S.-L.), Universidad Nacional de Asuncion, Asuncion, Paraguay; Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (E.G.), Maurizio Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy; Foothills Medical Centre & the University of Calgary (A.W.K., C.G.B.), Calgary, Alberta; London Health Sciences Centre (N.P.), London, Ontario, Canada; Department of Surgery (M.S.), Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy; Radboud University Nijmegen (D.W., H.v.G.), The Netherlands; Surgical Clinic, Department of Experimental and Clinical Sciences (G.B.), University of Brescia, Brescia; General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery Department (L.A.), Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy; Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (W.B.), Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, CA; General, Trauma and Emergency Surgery Department (F.C.), Pisa University Hospital, Pisa; Department of Surgery (S.D.S.), University of Insubria, University Hospital of Varese, ASST Sette Laghi, Regione Lombardia, Italy; Division of General Surgery (Y.K.), Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel; and Shock Trauma Center at Denver Health (E.E.M.), Denver, Colorado.