31 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS AUGUST 2015 Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2015: AGW/WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events WGO Global Guidelines & Cascades at Gastro 2015 Greger Lindberg, MD Chair, Guidelines Committee Karolinska Institutet Department of Medicine Stockholm, Sweden What we know today can focus new research to help communities throughout the world solve their, sometimes long existing, medical problems. If only we can apply what is known and so improve what is done! This is what the World Gastroenterol-ogy Organisation (WGO) has been aiming for in the last 15 years with its very successful program to design and build GI Practice Global Guide-lines & Cascades. Without your help, and without the commitment of our member societies, this would have been impossible. The scientific program at the Gastro 2015 meeting in Brisbane provides a comprehensive overview of the latest information, insights, and practices in gastroenterology, endoscopy, and hepatology. In doing so, it fosters a better understanding and deeper in-sight for all new developments in our disciplines. Three of our guidelines were selected for presentation during the guideline section of the Gastro 2015 program: 1. Our new Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) guideline coin-cides with our ‘World Digestive Health Day’ (WDHD) topic for this year: “Heartburn: A Global Perspective.” 2. The Esophageal Varices guideline deals with a significant problem worldwide, but particularly in areas where chronic hepatitis is prevalent. 3. The Endoscope Disinfection guideline covers a topic that is critical; wherever endoscopy is used, we must make sure that en-doscope re-processing procedures will never play a role in spreading disease. The recent outbreak of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobac-teriaceae (CRE) that was traced back to endoscope disinfection problems related to a faulty design of specific endoscope components illustrates that the disinfection and cleaning of endoscopes can not be taken for granted. With our guideline updates and the cascade system for cleaning options in a variety of situations we offer a valuable resource for technicians, nurses, and doctors to optimally fulfill their responsible task. We believe our guidelines stand out from other practice guidelines. With the guideline development program, WGO brings together people from all over the world, both in the guide-line production process (during the drafting) and stepwise enhancement (during the review team cycles), as well as in different user groups. Our guidelines are published in six major languages (English, French, Manda-rin, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish) to provide easy access to online users, and a concise version of each new guideline is published in English in the Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. With our guideline chairs present-ing the three selected titles at the upcoming Gastro 2015 meeting in Brisbane, we hope to familiarize participants with our cascades system. The WGO Cascades have been developed specifically to complement gold standard practice statements with alternative options for diagnosis and management, targeting health care Anton LeMair, MD WGO Guidelines Project Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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