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## A prospective study of 200 consecutive open emergency appendicectomies )vas carried out. All patients were informed bejore operation that they would be discharged the following day if possible. The operation was performed through a standard muscle-splitting incision. A t the end of the operation the wound u.as infiltrated with hupivacaine and a diclofenac suppository ,vas given. There Mwe 29 normal, 129 acutely inflamed, six gangrenous and 36 perforated appendices. In all, 147 patients ( 73.5' per. cent) kvere discharged home &tithin 24 h and revietved 2 weeks later. Twelve patients had seen their general practitioner, mainly f o r ic3oundproblems (eight) or pain (tivo). Two others required readmission. Thirty-four patients (23.1 per cent) required no postoperative analgesia; 104 ( 70.7 per cent) required paracetamol or co-proxaniol f o r 3 davs. N o patient had a problem directly related to kzrlj) discharge j i o m hospital. Fiftj-three patients (26.5' per cent) w'ere not discharged home early due to peritonitis ( 3 6 ) , social reasons (seven), nausea (seven), associated caecal volvulus (one)

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Author

S. Ramesh; Mr R. B. Galland

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley; Research Square; Oxford University Press (OUP) (ISSN 0007-1323)

Published

1993

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)