Appendicitis
Conditions
Keywords
acute appendicitis, pain management, analgesics, pediatric patients, laparoscopy, open surgery
Brief summary
Acute appendicitis is the most common illness that brings pediatric patients to the hospital for surgical treatment. Abdominal pain is the symptom because of which the patients go to the hospital. Some patients have severe pain and need analgesics before the final diagnosis and before surgery. After surgery most patient experience pain and at least 80 % of the patients need postoperative pain medication. For two decades there has been a clinical guideline for pain management in Kuopio University Hospital (KUH). The investigators aim was to evaluate how well the pain management for pediatric patient works in clinical practice.
Interventions
PROCEDUREappendicectomy
Appendix was removed either laparoscopically or open surgery
Sponsors
Kuopio University Hospital
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
No minimum to 18 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* In prospective patients informed consent obtained * Appendectomy performed
Exclusion criteria
* No informed consent
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Pain | from preoperative evaluation until the patient left hospital maximum of 7 days | pain is asked preoperatively and at the first postoperative day measured with numeral rating scale |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| amount of opioids used during hospital stay | from preoperative evaluation until the patient left hospital maximum of 7 days | collected from patient files |
Countries
Finland
Outcome results
None listed