Guidelines for antimicrobial therapy of intra-abdominal infections in adults

Infectious Diseases Society of Taiwan; Taiwan Surgical Society of Gastroenterology;
Medical Foundation in Memory of Dr. Deh-Lin Cheng; Foundation of Professor Wei-Chuan Hsieh for
Infectious Diseases Research and Education; CY Lee!ˉs Research Foundation fo
Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Vaccines

Intra-abdominal infections are important in daily clini-cal practice. Outcomes are heavily inluenced by timely,accurate diagnoses and appropriate surgical and radio-logical intervention and by the timeliness and eficacyof antimicrobial therapy. Selection of antimicrobial agents is not only a choice between old versus new or single-agent versus combination therapy, but depends on the clinical status of patients, spectrum of activity,timing and duration of therapy, dose and dosing fre-quency, drug interactions and tolerability, adequacy of drug levels and prior antibiotic treatment. In addition,antimicrobial agents should be used carefully to avoid or prevent antimicrobial resistance.

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