Abstract
Non-Operative Management of Acute Appendicitis – Evidence versus Practice in Eastern Health, Victoria, Australia
Highlights
There has been an increasing body of literature on conservative management of acute appendicitis recently
With this shifting trend in management of acute appendicitis we aim to review the performance in management of acute appendicitis in our health network in the past five years, focusing on the cohort of patients managed conservatively, the management decisions and follow up results
Hansson et al and Eriksson et al assessed patients with clinical appendicitis treated conservatively with antibiotics versus patients treated by appendicectomy and concluded that antibiotic treatment alone is as effective as appendicectomy [10,11,12]
Summary
There has been an increasing body of literature on conservative management of acute appendicitis recently. In the past two decades, there has been an increasing body of literature evaluating the validity of antibiotics treatment alone in managing acute uncomplicated appendicitis and results are promising [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18]. With this shifting trend in management of acute appendicitis we aim to review the performance in management of acute appendicitis in our health network in the past five years, focusing on the cohort of patients managed conservatively, the management decisions and follow up results
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