Open AccessManagement of Acute Appendicitis during COVID-19 Pandemic in a Tertiary Care Centre: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study
Author(s) -
Anupama Thapa Basnet,
Suraj Pratap Singh,
Bhola Thapa,
Anuj Kayastha
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of nepal medical association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.176
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1815-672X
pISSN - 0028-2715
DOI - 10.31729/jnma.6307
Subject(s) - medicine , appendicitis , pandemic , general surgery , descriptive statistics , cross sectional study , covid-19 , disease , pathology , statistics , mathematics , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Acute appendicitis is the most common reason for abdominal surgery in children. Though appendectomy considered the gold standard there are a lot of complications related to it. Conservative management of acute appendicitis is not new to medical science. In pandemic like COVID-19 when all the health systems were about to shut-down because of lack of manpower and resources, we started a trial of non-operative management. The main aim of this study is to find out the management of acute appendicitis during COVID-19.