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The management of adult appendicitis during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interim analysis of a UK cohort study

2020; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 25; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s10151-020-02297-4

1128-045X

Hannah Javanmard‐Emamghissi, Hannah Boyd‐Carson, Marianne Hollyman, Brett Doleman, Alfred Adiamah, Jonathan N. Lund, Rachael Clifford, Luke Dickerson, Sarah Richards, Lyndsay Pearce, Julie Cornish, Sarah Hare, Sonia Lockwood, Susan Moug, Gillian Tierney,

Intraperitoneal and Appendiceal Malignancies

Acute appendicitis (AA) is the most common general surgical emergency. Early laparoscopic appendicectomy is the gold-standard management. SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) brought concerns of increased perioperative mortality and spread of infection during aerosol generating procedures: as a consequence, conservative management was advised, and open appendicectomy recommended when surgery was unavoidable. This study describes the impact of the first weeks of the pandemic on the management of AA in the United Kingdom (UK).