We can reduce negative paediatric appendicectomy rate: A cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Appendicitis accounts for the most frequent surgical emergencies in childhood. The guidance from the Royal College of Surgeons and poor post operative outcomes in surgical patients during the pandemic, it would be expected that only children who had clinical signs of appendicitis and were unwell, would have undergone surgery. Hence, the negative appendicectomy rate during the pandemic should have decreased.The aim of this retrospective study was to assess the rate of negative appendicectomy amongst children <16 years of age during the first wave of the pandemic, from the announcement of the lockdown and determine if there was a true difference by comparing the rate with the same time period in 2019.

Material and methods

Data of all children aged<16 years who were

SUBMITTER: Patel M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8517710 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature