Guidelines on general surgical emergencies in pregnancy

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Every research question was reviewed and reported according to PRISMA guidance 7 .The search questions used are recorded in Appendix S1.A systematic literature review was performed by the lead surgeon in March and April 2023 of English language publications using the PubMed database and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and manual searches of relevant articles.If up-to-date meta-analysis or systematic reviews were available, conclusions from those were used.However, these were not available for many of the questions, and case series, case reports, and expert opinions were used in the analysis in such instances.For each question, recommendations were made, and the level of evidence graded using the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based medicine 2011 Levels of Evidence 8 .During the PICO meetings, three further areas of interest were identified to help the reader understand the topic fully.For two of these topics-general obstetric considerations for surgeons, and imaging in pregnancy-a general overview of the literature was written by a surgeon and specialist together.Location of delivery of care for a patient with surgical disease was also considered, and a PICO question was developed.For this question, the grey literature was also searched using Google and Google Advanced, with the first 20 results selected.

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