ALLMedicine™ Appendectomy Center

Feb 3rd, 2023 - Background Acute appendicitis is the commonest surgical emergency in children. The lifetime risk of developing appendicitis is 7-8%, with a peak incidence in the teenage years.The associated financial burden of treating appendicitis is very large....

Feb 3rd, 2023 - Major disparities in complications and mortality after appendectomy between countries with different income levels have not been well characterized, as comparative studies at patient level between countries are scant. This study aimed to investiga...

Feb 3rd, 2023 - Despite minimal coding and billing training, surgeons are frequently tasked with both in clinical practice. This often results in denials for reimbursement based upon incorrect or insufficient documentation, and reduced collections for work perfor...

Feb 3rd, 2023 - This study evaluates the effects of preoperative delay and antibiotics on perforation rate of appendix while waiting surgery for acute appendicitis. Patients with diagnosed acute appendicitis are randomized into two urgency groups: surgery within ...

Feb 2nd, 2023 - Prior studies evaluating the effect of resident independence on operative outcome draw from case mixes that cross disciplines and overrepresent cases with low complexity. The association between resident independence and clinical outcome in core g...

Nov 28th, 2022 - This document focuses on imaging in the adult and pregnant populations with right lower quadrant (RLQ) abdominal pain, including patients with fever and leukocytosis. Appendicitis remains the most common surgical pathology responsible for RLQ abdo...

Apr 3rd, 2019 - An MRI is recommended for an ovarian mass that is indeterminate on ultrasound. The ROMA score (combining CA125 and HE4) can also be calculated (grade A). In presumed early-stage ovarian or tubal cancers, the following procedures should be performe...

Mar 26th, 2019 - Acute appendicitis (AA) has been considered one of the most common acute surgical conditions in the world. Recent studies, however, have suggested that nonoperative management (NOM) with a course of antibiotics (ABX) may be as effective as surgery...

Nov 6th, 2018 - Appendicitis remains the most common surgical pathology responsible for right lower quadrant (RLQ) abdominal pain presenting to emergency departments in the United States, where the incidence continues to increase. Appropriate imaging in the diagn...

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Feb 3rd, 2023 - Background Acute appendicitis is the commonest surgical emergency in children. The lifetime risk of developing appendicitis is 7-8%, with a peak incidence in the teenage years.The associated financial burden of treating appendicitis is very large....

Feb 3rd, 2023 - This study evaluates the effects of preoperative delay and antibiotics on perforation rate of appendix while waiting surgery for acute appendicitis. Patients with diagnosed acute appendicitis are randomized into two urgency groups: surgery within ...

Feb 1st, 2023 - Appendectomy has become one of the most commonly performed emergency abdominal operations since it's description by McBurney in the 1890s. Since laparoscopic appendectomy was first described in 1983, there is an increase in the general trend towar...

Jan 23rd, 2023 - The potential benefit of outpatient care for this common digestive emergency is considerable, both for the patients themselves and for the public health system: Optimization of the care pathway, reducing the length of stay in hospital (a major iss...

Jan 18th, 2023 - The bacteriostatic and bactericidal effect of Novosyn® CHD will be assessed by the incidence of surgical site infection (SSI) in each suture group until 30 days postoperatively. The frequency of infections (SSI: A1 and A2) is considered as a suita...

Feb 1st, 2023 - Residents performing general surgery and hernia repairs can do so safely with varying degrees of supervision, restrospective cohort studies from the U.S. and Denmark showed, though such opportunities are becoming more scarce over time. In a study ...

Jan 20th, 2023 - Two days of postoperative intravenous antibiotics for complex appendicitis was non-inferior to 5 days in terms of complications and mortality, according to results of an open-label randomized trial. In 1,005 patients, the vast majority of whom und...

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Oct 26th, 2022 - Patients who were more confident that antibiotics could treat appendicitis appeared less likely to undergo surgery for this condition than those who expressed more reservations about this approach, according to a further analysis of data from a la...

Oct 11th, 2022 - Transcript: Jamie Carroll, APRN, CNP, MSN: I have case 2. These are my financial disclosures. My patient was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009. In 2009, the patient would go to up-front surgery. This patient had a lumpectomy and had positive m...