A 55-year-old woman with symptomatic cholelithiasis and mild gallstone pancreatitis improves clinically. Which statement about antibiotics is correct?...

Question

A 55-year-old woman with symptomatic cholelithiasis and mild gallstone pancreatitis improves clinically. Which statement about antibiotics is correct?

Accepted Answer

Antibiotics are not routinely indicated in mild acute pancreatitis without infection

Answer

Routine prophylactic antibiotics are recommended

Answer

All patients require imipenem for 14 days

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Oral antibiotics on discharge prevent necrosis

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Antibiotics should be continued until lipase normalizes

us-abem MCQ (SBA): Acute Pancreatitis-Antibiotics

A 55-year-old woman with symptomatic cholelithiasis and mild gallstone pancreatitis improves clinically. Which statement about antibiotics is correct?