Revised Guidelines on Intraabdominal Infection Embrace Principles of Antimicrobial Stewardship

By John E. Mazuski, MD, PhD

For surgical practitioners, management of intraabdominal infections (IAIs) has grown more challenging in recent years due to the aging population, the growing burden of chronic disease in older people, and the increased prevalence of resistant bacteria and fungi both in the health care setting and in the community. Those trends, along with the advent of newer approaches to source control and the introduction of new antibiotic agents, helped prompt the Surgical