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Medical Therapy
Depending on the severity of the patient's state, the management of peritonitis may include:
- General supportive measures such as vigorous intravenous rehydration and correction of electrolyte disturbances.
- Antibiotics are usually administered intravenously, but they may also be infused directly into the peritoneum. The empiric choice of broad-spectrum antibiotics often consist of multiple drugs, and should be targeted against the most likely agents, depending on the cause of peritonitis (see above); once one or more agents are actually isolated, therapy will of course be targeted on them.