Improved Survival with the Patients with Variceal Bleed

Table 1

Antibiotics compared to placebo in acute variceal bleed.

Author	Outcome	Drugs	Placebo (n); 𝑃	Antibiotics (n); 𝐴	Infections; 𝑃 versus 𝐴	efficacy
Pauwels et al. [27]	Bacterial infections	ciprofloxacin and a amoxicillin and clavulanic acid	34	30	53% versus 13%	𝐴>𝑃
Soriano et al. [30]	Bacterial infection	Norflox	59	60	10% versus 37%	𝐴>𝑃
Hsieh et al. [28]	Bacterial infection	ciprofloxacin	60	60	45% versus 10%	𝐴>𝑃
Jun et al. [29]	Bacterial infection	Cefotaxime	62	58	16% versus 3%	𝐴>𝑃