SCCM Pod-78 Antibiotic Treatment for Severe Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis

The Society of Critical Care Medicine's president-elect Phil Barie, MD, MBA, FCCM, discusses a study published in Annals of Surgery, titled "Early Antibiotic Treatment for Severe Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis." Dr. Barie is professor of surgery and public health at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York and was a co-author in this important study. (Ann Surg. 2007; 245: 674)