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Infectious Disease
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Gastroenterology
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Hospital Medicine
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General Hospital Medicine
Do you routinely give prophylactic antibiotics prior to ERCP for biliary obstruction in light of recent studies suggesting reduction of periprocedural infection?
Leem et al., PMID 37713527
Smith et al., PMID 40961256
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