Call for papers - Managing surgical complications

Guest Editor

Somprakas Basu, MBBS, MS, MSc, FRCS, FACS, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India

Submission Status: Open | Submission Deadline: 24 June 2025

BMC Surgery is calling for submissions to our Collection, Managing surgical complications. This Collection seeks to gather innovative research on managing surgical complications, encompassing a wide range of topics from wound care to life-threatening events. We invite submissions that explore active management strategies, intraoperative and postoperative complication management, anesthetic complications, pain management, innovative surgical techniques for risk reduction, multidisciplinary collaboration in complication management, and patient-centered approaches, with the aim of advancing patient safety and optimizing surgical outcomes.

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Meet the Guest Editor

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Somprakas Basu, MBBS, MS, MSc, FRCS, FACS, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India.

Somprakas Basu is professor and chair of general surgery at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India. He also serves as the chair of the technical committee at the United Nations global surgery learning hub, is the lead of the Education and Skills Committee WSES Global Surgery Working Group, and Global Alumni Ambassador of Cardiff University. Dr Basu has published over 135 peer-reviewed articles and 15 book chapters. He serves as a peer-reviewer and editorial board member of several reputed journals. His areas of clinical interest lie in general and colorectal surgery, surgical infections, and wound healing.

About the Collection

BMC Surgery is calling for submissions to our Collection, Managing surgical complications.

Complications arising from surgical procedures pose significant challenges for patients and healthcare providers. These complications can range from wound healing issues to life-threatening events such as profuse bleeding, intense pain, or anesthetic complications in the intraoperative or postoperative periods. Active monitoring strategies are crucial in preventing these complications and improving patient outcomes. Research in this area covers various aspects of complication management, including preoperative assessment, intraoperative measures, and postoperative care.

It is important for us to continue advancing our collective understanding of ways to prevent and manage surgical complications, enhance patient safety, and optimize surgical outcomes. Recent advances have focused on the development of evidence-based protocols for complication management, innovative surgical techniques to minimize risks, cutting edge monitoring technology, and enhanced perioperative care algorithms to reduce the incidence of adverse events. Additionally, research has emphasized the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration and patient-centered approaches in addressing surgical complications.

Contributions can include, but are not limited to, the following:

Surgical complications and wound care
Active monitoring strategies for prevention of surgical complications
Addressing life-threatening events in surgery
Anesthetic complications and pain management
Innovative surgical techniques and minimally invasive approaches for risk reduction
Multidisciplinary collaboration in complication management
Patient-centered approaches in addressing surgical complications
Preoperative assessment and planning for risk reduction

Looking ahead, continued research in this area holds the potential for further advancements in precision medicine, personalized surgical approaches, and the integration of digital health technologies to monitor and manage surgical complications in real time. Furthermore, ongoing research efforts may lead to the development of tailored interventions to address specific patient populations and reduce disparities in surgical outcomes.

There are currently no articles in this collection.

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Managing surgical complications" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.