“…An ideal agent is highly effective in reducing pancreatitis, is safe for the patient, well tolerated, relatively affordable, and does not have a prolonged administration time [1] . Various pharmacological agents (such as nifedipine, glucagon, calcitonin, lidocaine, nitroglycerine, antibiotics, steroids, allopurinol, interleukin-10, and heparin) have been tried, but have met with disappointing results in preventing pancreatitis in randomized controlled trials [1,[22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34] . Only two agents seem to offer any clinical benefit: the protease inhibitor gabexate mesilate [35][36][37] and the antisecretory agent somatostatin may be efficacious in preventing pancreatitis when given by continuous IV infusion [34,38,39] .…”