Guidelines subcommittee

Chair

Dr. Stavros A. Antoniou
1st Department of Surgery
Papageorgiou General Hospital
Thessaloniki, Greece
stavros.antoniou@hotmail.com
Biography

Vision

To advance MIS through improvement in quality and increased uptake of clinical practice guidelines in Europe and globally

 Mission

To involve the surgical community, patient groups and healthcare authorities in the development of EAES guidelines
To standardize the methodology and improve the quality and reliability of EAES guidelines
To promote dissemination and use and clinical uptake of EAES guidelines
To become an information hub for all practitioners in MIS

Francesco Maria Carrano
University of Insubria
General Surgery
Varese – Italy
Biography

Monica Ortenzi
Università Politecnica delle Marche
Surgical Clinic
Ancona – Italy
Biography

(Silviu) Daniel Preda
Craiova Emergency
Clinical County Hospital
Craiova – Romania
Biography

Nereo Vettoretto
Ospedale di Montichiari
ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia
Montichiari – Italy
Biography

Dimitris Mavridis
University of Ioannina
Department of Primary Education
Ioannina – Greece
Biography

Sofia Tsokani
University of Ioannina
Department of Primary Education
Ioannina – Greece
Biography

EAES Multidisciplinary Rapid Guideline: Systematic review, meta-analysis, GRADE assessment and evidence-informed recommendations on the surgical management of paraesophageal hernias

EAES, SAGES and ESCP Rapid Guideline: Bowel preparation for minimally invasive colorectal resection

• EAES Rapid Guideline: Systematic review, meta-analysis, GRADE assessment and evidence-informed European recommendations on appendicitis in pregnancy – read more >>

Authors: Michel Adamina, Anthoula Andreou, Alberto Arezzo, Christos Christogiannis, Nicola Di Lorenzo, Meropi Gioumidou, Julie Glavind, Christos Iavazzo, Dimitrios Mavridis, Filip E. Muysoms, Daniel Preda, Neil J. Smart, Aggeliki Syropoulou, Alexander Α. Tzanis, Marc Van de Velde, Joeri Vermeulen & Stavros A. Antoniou

• EAES Rapid Guideline: Update systematic review, network meta-analysis, CINeMA and GRADE assessment, and evidence-informed European recommendations on the management of common bile duct stones – read more >>

Authors: Luigi Boni, Bright Huo, Laura Alberici, Claudio Ricci, Sofia Tsokani, Dimitris Mavridis, Yasser Sami Amer, Alexandros Andreou, Thomas Berriman, Gianfranco Donatelli, Nauzer Forbes, Stylianos Kapiris, Cüneyt Kayaalp, Leena Kylänpää, Pablo Parra-Membrives, Peter D. Siersema, George F. Black & Stavros A. Antoniou

• UEG and EAES Rapid Guideline: Update systematic review, network meta-analysis, CINeMA and GRADE assessment, and evidence-informed European recommendations on surgical management of GERD – read more >>

Authors: Sheraz Markar, Alexandros Andreou, Luigi Bonavina, Ivan D. Florez, Bright Huo, Katerina-Maria Kontouli, Donald E. Low, Dimitris Mavridis, Nick Maynard, Alan Moss, Manuel Pera, Edoardo Savarino, Peter Siersema, Daniel Sifrim, David I. Watson, Giovanni Zaninotto, Stavros A. Antoniou

• EAES Rapid Guideline: Systematic review, network meta-analysis, CINeMA and GRADE assessment, and European consensus on bariatric surgery – Extension 2022 – read more >>

Authors: Francesco M. Carrano, Angelo Iossa, Nicola Di Lorenzo, Gianfranco Silecchia, Katerina-Maria Kontouli, Dimitris Mavridis, Isaias Alarçon, Daniel M. Felsenreich, Sergi Sanchez-Cordero, Angelo Di Vincenzo, M. Carmen Balagué-Ponz, Rachel L. Batterham, Nicole Bouvy, Catalin Copaescu, Dror Dicker, Martin Fried, Daniela Godoroja, David Goitein, Jason C. G. Halford, Marina Kalogridaki, Maurizio De Luca, Salvador Morales-Conde, Gerhard Prager, Andrea Pucci, The EAES Bariatric Surgery Guidelines Group.

• UEG and EAES Rapid Guideline: Systematic review, meta-analysis, GRADE assessment and evidence-informed European recommendations on TaTME for rectal cancer (2021) –  read more >>

Authors: Marco Milone, Michel Adamina, Alberto Arezzo, Nona Bejinariu, Luigi Boni, Nicole Bouvy, F Borja de Lacy, Raphaëla Dresen, Konstantinos Ferentinos, Nader K. Francis, Joe Mahaffey, Marta Penna, George Theodoropoulos, Katerina Maria Kontouli, Dimitris Mavridis, Per Olav Vandvik & Stavros A. Antoniou

• EAES Rapid Guideline: Appendicitis in the Elderly (2021) – read more >>

Authors: Stavros A. Antoniou, Dimitris Mavridis, Katerina Maria Kontouli, Vasileios Drakopoulos, Marguerite Gorter-Stam, Sture Eriksson, Marc Leone, Maria Carmen Pérez-Bocanegra, Neil J. Smart, Marco Milone, Francesco Maria Carrano, George A. Antoniou & Per Olav Vandvik

• Clinical Practice Guidelines of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) on Bariatric Surgery: Update 2020 Endorsed by IFSO-EC, EASO and ESPCOP (2020) – read more >>

Authors: Nicola Di Lorenzo, Stavros A. Antoniou, Rachel L. Batterham, Luca Busetto, Daniela Godoroja, Angelo Iossa, Francesco M. Carrano, Ferdinando Agresta, Isaias Alarçon, Carmil Azran, Nicole Bouvy, Carmen Balaguè Ponz, Maura Buza, Catalin Copaescu, Maurizio De Luca, Dror Dicker, Angelo Di Vincenzo, Daniel M. Felsenreich, Nader K. Francis, Martin Fried, Berta Gonzalo Prats, David Goitein, Jason C. G. Halford, Jitka Herlesova, Marina Kalogridaki, Hans Ket, Salvador Morales-Conde, Giacomo Piatto, Gerhard Prager, Suzanne Pruijssers, Andrea Pucci, Shlomi Rayman, Eugenia Romano, Sergi Sanchez-Cordero, Ramon Vilallonga & Gianfranco Silecchia

Projects

Surgical Guidelines Watch and mapping of EAES members’ preferences

The EAES Guidelines Subcommittee has set transparent principles in the selection of topics addressed by EAES guidelines. Read more >>

AGREE-S: AGREE II Extension for Surgical Interventions

EAES and UEG have funded a tripartite project (Guideline Assessment Project: Filling the GAP in Surgical Guidelines), that led to the development of AGREE-S, an extension of AGREE II for surgical interventions read more >>

Survey on awareness and use of EAES guidelines

Over the past 25 years, the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES) has been issuing clinical guidance documents to aid surgical practice read more >>

Conceptual analysis of EAES guidance documents

In this project, we aimed to conceptually appraise the methodology of EAES clinical practice guidance documents read more >>