Overview
PHASE II-III CLINICAL TRIAL TO EVALUATE THE SAFETY, EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCY OF DISCHARGE TO OUTPATIENT SURGERY IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE GANGRENOUS APPENDICITIS UNDERGOING EMERGENCY SURGERY.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Acute gangrenous appendicitis confirmed during surgery.
- Patient who meets the criteria to be discharged on an outpatient basis
- Signature of informed consent.
- Older than 14 years of age
Exclusion Criteria:
- \- Uncomplicated appendectomy.
- Intra-operative purulent or faecaloid peritonitis
- Appendicular abscess or plastron diagnosed by imaging.
- Paralytic ileus preventing oral tolerance.
- Need for placement of abdominal drainage.
- ASA IV and some selected ASA III.
- Immunosuppression.
- Patients with active neoplasia.
- Pregnancy.
- Doubts in the definitive diagnosis.
- Suspicion of inflammatory bowel disease.
- No family support.
- Failure to sign the informed consent form.
- Impossibility to comply with the follow-up.
