Adequate management of severely ill patients with secondary peritonitis requires supportive
therapy of organ dysfunction, source control of infection and antimicrobial therapy. Since …

Background Secondary peritonitis requires surgical source control and adequate
antimicrobial treatment. Antimicrobial regimens are usually selected according to local …

Despite improvements in diagnosis, intensive-care medicine and surgical technique, the
mortality of patients with secondary peritonitis is still high. Early and aggressive empiric …

Introduction: Bacterial peritonitis is an infection with high mortality if not treated immediately.
In the absence of an intraabdominal source of infection, bacterial peritonitis may arise in …

Secondary peritonitis usually results from perforation of a digestive tract organ. The bacterial
contamination depends on the site of the perforation (supra or infra mesocolic) and the …

Purpose The management of peritonitis in critically ill patients is becoming increasingly
complex due to their changing characteristics and the growing prevalence of multidrug …

Secondary peritonitis includes community-acquired and nosocomial peritonitis. These intra-
abdominal infections have a common pathogenesis but some microbiological differences …

Objective The authors review current definition, classification, scoring, microbiology,
inflammatory response, and goals of management of secondary peritonitis. Summary …

Background: Selecting an appropriate agent for empiric antibiotic therapy for secondary
peritonitis is challenging. The pathogens responsible, aerobic gram-negative bacilli in …

Background: In this retrospective study, the possibility of using amoxicillin/clavulanate for
empirical therapy of secondary peritonitis as an alternative to imipenem was explored …