Antibiotic management of acute uncomplicated appendicitis among children was inferior to appendectomy, a randomized non-inferiority trial showed. For nearly 850 children with available primary outcome ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A study published in The Lancet examined treating acute, non-perforated appendicitis in children with antibiotics instead of surgery. It found antibiotics less ...

Failure of antibiotics was defined as patients having a subsequent appendicectomy, and failure in the appendicectomy group was defined as patients having a normal appendix identified on pathology. A ...

A meta-analysis of the major post-intervention complications of peritonitis and intra-abdominal abscesses occurring after appendicectomy or antibiotic treatment for uncomplicated acute appendicitis ...

BACKGROUND: The appropriate use of preoperative antibiotics in patients undergoing appendectomy for acute appendicitis has been shown to decrease the rate of surgical site infections (SSIs).

This randomized, double-blind trial compared the effectiveness of routine del Nido cardioplegia with two modified versions (Ringer lactate-based and plain Ringer-based) in coronary artery bypass ...