Today, I link to the Tokyo Guidelines 2018 (TG18).
All that follows is from the above resource.
Tokyo Guidelines 2018（TG18）
Update: December 7, 2018Free Full text of TG18 (in English)
・ Tokyo Guidelines 2018: antimicrobial therapy for acute cholangitis and cholecystitis
（https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhbp.518/full）
・ Tokyo Guidelines 2018: diagnostic criteria and severity grading of acute cholangitis (with videos)
（https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhbp.512/full）
・ Tokyo Guidelines 2018: initial management of acute biliary infection and flowchart for acute cholangitis
（https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhbp.509/full）
・ Indications and techniques of biliary drainage for acute cholangitis in updated Tokyo Guidelines 2018
（https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhbp.496/full）
・ Tokyo Guidelines 2018: diagnostic criteria and severity grading of acute cholecystitis（with videos）
（https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhbp.515/full）
・ Tokyo Guidelines 2018: flowchart for the management of acute cholecystitis
（https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhbp.516/full）
・ Tokyo Guidelines 2018: surgical management of acute cholecystitis：safe steps in laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis（with videos）
（https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhbp.517/full）
・ Tokyo Guidelines 2018: management strategies for gallbladder drainage in patients with acute cholecystitis (with videos)
（https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhbp.504/full）
・ Tokyo Guidelines 2018: management bundles for acute cholangitis and cholecystitis
（https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhbp.519/full）
・ Preoperative predictors of conversion as indicators of local inflammation in acute cholecystitis:
strategies for future studies to develop quantitative predictors
（https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhbp.493/full）Mobile Application of TG18 (in English & Japanese)
Digest of TG18 including the calculators of diagnostic criteria and severity assessment of Acute cholangitis and cholecystitis is now available with a mobile application (for i-Phone, Android) and you will be able to download the application through the sites of “Apple store” and “Google play”.
The URLs and QR codes of the sites are shown below;
Apple store (for i-Phone users) Google Play (for Android users) Search and install an application named “Tokyo Guidelines (TG18)” on your mobile.
The application is free of charge.
