Status:
COMPLETED
Feasibility of Outpatient Appendectomy for Acute Appendicitis
Lead Sponsor:
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens
Conditions:
Acute Appendicitis
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
PHASE3
Brief Summary
The aim of our monocentric prospective in intention-to-treat study is to evaluate the feasibility of outpatient appendectomy for non complicated acute appendicitis.
Detailed Description
Acute appendicitis is one of the most common surgical emergencies and corresponds to an high number of admissions (about 120.000) in France. It mainly affects young adults and is associated to fewer c...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Non complicated acute appendicitis which has been diagnosed at physical, paraclinical and morphological examination
- Adult patient
- Patient with sufficient understanding
- Good compliance with medical prescription
- Hygiene and housing equivalent to a hospitalization
- Availability of an accompanying able to prevent the surgeon if necessary, to accompany the patient and stay at night next to him
- Less than one hour from an health care adapted to the surgical structure
- Quick access to a telephone
- Patient affiliated with social protection
Exclusion
- complicated appendicitis
- pregnancy or breastfeeding
- unstable vital signs or fever
- objective signs of diffuse peritonitis
- ward of court or prisoners
- Discovery of a complicated shape (severe sepsis, abscess, generalized peritonitis)
- Discovery of an alternative diagnosis
- Performing an associated gesture (colectomy or typhlectomy, annexectomy...)
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 1 2013
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
March 1 2016
Estimated Enrollment :
120 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01839435
Start Date
April 1 2013
End Date
March 1 2016
Last Update
September 22 2025
Active Locations (1)
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Amiens University Hospital
Amiens, France