Aplicación de un modelo terapéutico fast-track en la apendicitis aguda complicada del paciente pediátrico
2013
Objective. Acute appendicitis is the most common emergency surgical pathology in childhood and there is no consensus on its management. Fast-track treatment, based on optimizing perioperative care has reduced morbidity and mortality of surgical pathologies, including simple acute appendicitis. The aim of our study was to assess the effects of a fast-track protocol in complicated acute appendicitis. Methods. Ambispective cohort study. Historical unexposed cohort: children with complicated appendicitis and appendectomy in our hospital during 2008-2009. Exposed cohort: children operated in 2010-2011 and who performed protocol. The protocol treatment was done after a literature review, adapting the principles of fast-track to a potentially severe urgent disease: early mobilization, limited drainage-tubes and short antibiotic regimens Taking hospital stay as the resulting variable, the calculated sample size for α = 0.05 and power = 90% was 54, being x 1 = 7 ± 3DS and x2=5.
Keywords:
- Correction
- Source
- Cite
- Save
- Machine Reading By IdeaReader
20
References
2
Citations
NaN
KQI