A Comprehensive review of abdominal infections

Table 5 Conditions requiring less than 24 hours of antibiotic therapy

Conditions requiring < 24 hours of antibiotic therapy
Trauma	Non-trauma
Bowel injuries due to blunt trauma repaired in < 12 hours	Acute stomach and proximal jejunal perforation in the absence of malignancy or acid reducing therapy repaired in < 24 hours
Bowel injuries due to penetrating trauma repaired in < 12 hours	Intraoperative contamination repaired in < 12 hours
	Acute appendicitis/cholecystitis without perforation, abscess or local peritonitis

Adapted from Solomkin[4](Guidelines by the Surgical Infection Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America).

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