Open AccessThe necessity of nighttime appendectomies: Is appendicitis an emergency?
Author(s) -
Go Ohba,
Koji Kono,
Seiichi Hirobe
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
african journal of paediatric surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.163
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 0189-6725
pISSN - 0974-5998
DOI - 10.4103/ajps.ajps_122_16
Subject(s) - medicine , perforation , incidence (geometry) , medical record , emergency surgery , surgery , appendicitis , general surgery , invasive surgery , emergency department , physics , materials science , psychiatry , optics , punching , metallurgy
In our institution, we avoid emergency nighttime appendectomies, instead performing the surgery during daylight hours the following day. We examined whether emergency or early appendectomies affect the outcome of patient morbidity.