Improved Survival with the Patients with Variceal Bleed

Table 2

Antibiotics preventing mortality in acute variceal bleed.

Author	Outcome	Drug	Drug	Relative risk	CI
Gulberg et al. [34]	Bacterial infection	Ceftriaxone 1 gm (1/40)	Ceftriaxone 2 gm (1/42)	1.05	0.11–9.80
Lata et al. [35]	Mortality	Ampicillin and sulbactam 3 g (12/21)	Norfloxacin 800 mg (7/25)	2.04	0.98–4.23
Fernández et al. [36]	Mortality	Ceftriaxone 1 g (8/54)	Norfloxacin 800 mg (6/57)	1.41	0.52–3.79