Early management of severe acute pancreatitis

Current Gastroenterology Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 123-130

  Talukdar, Rupjyoti ^a,b   Vege, Santhi Swaroop ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b NEMCARE Hospitals   (India)

Author keywords

Bedside assessment for severity in acute pancreatitis; Critical pancreatitis; Early management; Early severe acute pancreatitis; Fluid management; Infected pancreatic necrosis; Moderately severe acute pancreatitis; Persistent organ failure; Prophylactic antibiotics; Severe acute pancreatitis; Severity assessment; Systemic inflammatory response syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED PROTEIN C; IMIPENEM; PLACEBO; PROBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ARTICLE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC SPHINCTEROTOMY; ENTERIC FEEDING; FLUID THERAPY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; SIDE EFFECT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; PANCREATITIS; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPHINCTEROTOMY, ENDOSCOPIC;

EID: 79955818634     PISSN: 15228037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11894-010-0174-4     Document Type: Article

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