Update from the Abdominal Compartment Society (WSACS) on intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome: past, present, and future beyond Banff 2017.

1Regional Trauma Services and Departments of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2Letterkenny University Hospital, Letterkenny, Donegal Ireland 3Regional Trauma Services, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 4Department of Surgery, Division of Trauma — University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil 5Department of Surgery, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada 6Department of Critical Care Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium 7Abdominal Center, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki Finland 8Loma Linda, California, USA 9University of Tartu, Estonia; and Lucerne Cantonal Hospital, Switzerland 10University of New South Wales-South Western Sydney Clinical School, Sydney, Australia 11Intensive Care Unit, Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Australia and School of Surgery, The University of Western Australia, Sterling Highway, Crawley (Perth), Australia 12Department of Intensive Care and High Care Burn Unit, Ziekenhuis Netwerk Antwerpen, ZNA Stuivenberg, Antwerp, Belgium, and Department of Intensive Care, University Hospital Brussel (UZ Brussel), Jette, Belgium, The Free University of Brussels (VUB)