This Provisional PDF corresponds to the article as it appeared upon acceptance. Fully formatted PDF and full text (HTML) versions will be made available soon. Management of hemodynamically unstable pelvic trauma: results of the first Italian consensus conference (cooperative guidelines of the Italian Society of Surgery, the Italian Association of Hospital Surgeons, the Multi-specialist Italian Society of Young Surgeons, the Italian Society of Emergency Surgery and Trauma, the Italian Society of Anesthesia, Analgesia, Resuscitation and Intensive Care, the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, the Italian Society of Emergency Medicine, the Italian Society of Medical Radiology -Section of Vascular and Interventional Radiology- and the World Society of Emergency Surgery) World Journal of Emergency Surgery 2014, 9:18 doi:10.1186/1749-7922-9-18 Stefano Magnone (smagnone@hpg23.it) Federico Coccolini (fcoccolini@hpg23.it) Roberto Manfredi (rmanfredi@hpg23.it) Dario Piazzalunga (dpiazzalunga@hpg23.it) Roberto Agazzi (ragazzi@hpg23.it) Claudio Arici (carici@hpg23.it) Marco Barozzi (mbarozzi@ausl-cesena.emr.it) Giovanni Bellanova (giovanni.bellanova@apss.tn.it) Alberto Belluati (dr.belluati@libero.it) Giorgio Berlot (berlot@inwind.it) Walter Biffl (Walter.Biffl@dhha.org) Stefania Camagni (scamagni@hpg23.it) Luca Campanati (lcampanati@hpg23.it) Claudio Carlo Castelli (ccastelli@hpg23.it) Fausto Catena (faustocatena@gmail.com) Osvaldo Chiara (ochiara@yahoo.com) Nicola Colaianni (ncolaianni@hpg23.it) Salvatore De Masi (s.demasi@meyer.it) Salomone Di Saverio (salo75@inwind.it) Giuseppe Dodi (giuseppe.dodi@unipd.it) Andrea Fabbri (andrea.fabbri@ausl.fo.it) Giovanni Faustinelli (gfaustinelli@hpg23.it) Giorgio Gambale (g.gambale@ausl.fo.it) Michela Giulii Capponi (mcapponi@hpg23.it) Marco Lotti (mlotti@hpg23.it) GianMariano Marchesi (gmarchesi@hpg23.it) Alessandro Massè (alessandro.masse@unito.it) Tiziana Mastropietro (tizianamastropietro16@gmail.com) Giuseppe Nardi (gnardi@scamilloforlanini.rm.it) Raffaella Niola (raffaellaniola@tiscali.it) World Journal of Emergency Surgery © 2014 Magnone et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.