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== Treatment == | == Treatment == | ||
The treatment of generalised peritonitis involves supportive therapy, empiric wide-spectrum antibiotics, and treatment of the underlying cause, which almost always requires surgery. Local peritonitis does not invariably require antibiotics, for example when caused by appendicitis. | The treatment of generalised peritonitis involves supportive therapy, empiric wide-spectrum antibiotics, and treatment of the underlying cause, which almost always requires surgery. Local peritonitis does not invariably require antibiotics, for example when caused by appendicitis. | ||
[[Category:Gastrointestinal surgery]] | <noinclude>[[Category:Gastrointestinal surgery]]</noinclude> | ||