Health Condition 1: K358- Other and unspecified acute appendicitis
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Government Medical College
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Patients undergoing emergency appendicectomy for suspected appendicitis, defined as acute (1 week or less) non traumatic right iliac fossa pain consistent with a diagnosis of appendicitis (pain associated with nausea, anorexia, vomiting and fever along with clinical signs as tenderness and rebound tenderness in right iliac fossa, with or without ultrasound findings suggestive of appendicitis)
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Pregnant females, patients with a right iliac fossa mass, patients with a previous history of urolithiasis or pelvic inflammatory disease,
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Estimate the predictive accuracy of Alvarado score and AIR score and RIPASA score against the reference standard of histopathology in patients undergoing emergency AppendicectomyTimepoint: 4 weeks after appendicectomy | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Find correlation between RIPASA, AIR and MASSTimepoint: 4 weeks after surgery | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Public ContactMeer M Chisthi
Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram.
Outcome results
None listed