Acute Diverticulitis - No antibiotics!!

Corpsey

English - February 25, 2020 18:00 - 4 minutes - 2.93 MB - ★★★★★ - 25 ratings
Medicine Health & Fitness corependium emrap emergency medicine medicine rural medicine textbook emergency Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed

Previous Episode: HYPERglycemia

Next Episode: HYPOKALEMIA on ECG and COVID updates

Based on CorePendium chapter by: Christina Tupe, MD Section Editors: Omoyemi Adebayo, MD Sara Manning, MD Associate Editor: Mike Winters, MD

Refs:
Shabanzadeh DM, Wille-Jørgensen P. Antibiotics for uncomplicated diverticulitis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012;11:CD009092. Published 2012 Nov 14. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD009092.pub2

Daniels L, Ünlü Ç, de Korte N, et al. Randomized clinical trial of observational versus antibiotic treatment for a first episode of CT-proven uncomplicated acute diverticulitis. Br J Surg. 2017;104(1):52–61. doi:10.1002/bjs.10309

Chabok A, Påhlman L, Hjern F, Haapaniemi S, Smedh K; AVOD Study Group. Randomized clinical trial of antibiotics in acute uncomplicated diverticulitis. Br J Surg. 2012;99(4):532–539. doi:10.1002/bjs.8688