Abdominal Sepsis

1 Classifications and principles of treatment.- 2 Peritonitis and intra-peritoneal inflammatory mediators.- 3 Imaging diagnosis.- 4 Higk risk patients and prognostic factors.- 5 Acute appendicitis.- 6 Acute cholecystitis.- 7 Acute cholangitis.- 8 Pyogenic liver abscess.- 9 Gastroduodenal perforations.- 10 Small bowel perforations.- 11 Acute colonic diverticulitis.- 12 Post-operative peritonitis.- 13 Damage control surgery in managing abdominal sepsis.- 14 Ongoing peritonitis.- 15 Clostridium difficile infection.- 16 Complicated Intra-abdominal infections: Principles of Antimicrobial Therapy.- 17 Antimicrobial armamentarium.- 18 Antimicrobial resistance in intra-abdominal infections.- 19 The role of candida in abdominal sepsis.- 20 Use and interpretation of peritoneal swabs.- 21 Appropriate antimicrobial therapy in critically ill patients.- 22 Haemodynamic support.- 23 Adjunctive therapies.- 24 Impact and management of abdominal compartment syndrome in patients with abdominal sepsis.- 25 Tromboprohilaxis in patients with abdominal sepsis.- 26 Nutrition in patients with abdominal sepsis.

Dr Massimo Sartelli is Consultant Surgeon at the Department of Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Italy. He is author and co-author of 8 manuals of general-emergency surgery. In the last years he has devoted his updating to the study of surgical sepsis. He is deputy editor of the "World Journal of Emergency Surgery" and member of the Board of Directors of the "World Society of Emergency Surgery" (WSES). In last years he coordinated WSES guidelines for management of intra-abdominal infections and soft tissue infections. He designed and coordinated three prospective studies describing the epidemiological and treatment profiles of patients with cIAIs worldwide.

Matteo Bassetti is Head of the Infectious Diseases Division of the Santa Maria Misericordia University Hospital, Udine, Italy. He is also Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases of the University of Udine. Dr Bassetti studied at the University of Genoa and continued his medical education at the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, USA, with an Infectious Diseases fellowship. He also completed a PhD in Solid Organ Transplantation and Infectious Diseases at the University of Genoa. He is the secretary of the Infectious Diseases Group of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) and chair of the Critically Ill Study Group of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID). Dr Bassetti is also co-chair of the Intra-abdominal Infections Study Group and secretary of the Bone, Skin and Soft Tissue Infections of the International Society of Chemotherapy (ISC).

Ignacio Martin-Loeches, PhD, FJFICMI is a full time Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Senior Clinical Lecturer & Research Director of the Multidisciplinary Intensive Care Research Organization (MICRO) at Trinity College, Dublin. Currently Vice-Chair of Intensive Care Medicine at St James's University Hospital, Dublin. He has served as executive member for the European