Antibiotic in non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeds

Date First Published:

May 1, 2011

Last Updated:

May 1, 2011

Report by:

Anna Morgan, ST5 Emergency Medicine (Royal Free Hospital )

Three-Part Question:

[In adult patients with acute non variceal upper GI bleeding] is [the use of antibiotic prophylaxis] indicated to [improve survival, transfusion requirements, hospitalisation length and rebleeding rates]