Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: General issues of trauma management in adults" and "Society guideline links: Cervical spine injury" and "Society guideline links: Thoracic and lumbar spine injury in adults".)
United States
●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on rib fractures (2018)
●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on thoracic aorta interventional planning and follow-up (2017)
●EAST: A practice management guideline on operative fixation of rib fractures after blunt trauma (2017)
●Western Trauma Association (WTA): Critical decisions in trauma – Management of rib fractures (2017)
●WTA: Critical decisions in trauma – Penetrating chest trauma (2014)
●ACR: ACR Appropriateness Criteria on blunt chest trauma (2013)
●American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA): Statement of principles − Trauma anesthesiology (2013)
●American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST): Blunt cardiac injury (2012)
●EAST: Practice management guideline for the management of pulmonary contusion and flail chest (2012)
●EAST: Practice management guideline on screening for blunt cardiac injury (2012)
●EAST: Practice management guideline on screening for thoracolumbar spinal injuries in blunt trauma (2012)
●WTA: Critical decisions in trauma – Resuscitative thoracotomy (2012)
●EAST: Practice management guidelines for management of hemothorax and occult pneumothorax (2011)
Europe
United Kingdom
●Difficult Airway Society (DAS): Guidelines for awake tracheal intubation (ATI) in adults (2020)
●British Orthopaedic Association (BOA): Audit standards for the management of blunt chest wall trauma (2016)
Japan
●[In Japanese] Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists (JSA): Paramedic tracheal intubation (2018)