Guide To Treating And Preventing Acute Cholecystitis

Tube Insertion To Drain Infection

An acute cholecystitis patient may need to undergo an endoscopic ultrasonographic guided biliary drainage procedure to treat their infected gallbladder. This treatment is typically used in individuals who have not had success with other prior interventions, have an inaccessible ampulla, or have had a previously failed bile duct cannulation during an endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography. An endoscopic ultrasonographic guided biliary drainage procedure is performed by inserting an endoscope through the patient's mouth to reach their gallbladder and bile duct. Another procedure that involves making a small incision in the patient's abdomen to reach the gallbladder can also be used to drain the infection. In both procedures, a tube is inserted into the gallbladder, and the fluid or pus from inside of the gallbladder is given the opportunity to drain from the body. The removal of the infection from the gallbladder can help make antibiotics more effective at killing the causative bacteria.

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