Patient Safety in Delayed Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis
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Patient Safety in Delayed Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis
Introduction: acute appendicitis is the major surgical abdominal disease in emergency departments and is also among the five leading causes of litigation against emergency physicians. Delayed diagnosis of appendicitis is more likely to occur in patients, who present atypically, and those lack a thorough physical examination, or those received intramuscular narcotic analgesia. The aim of this st...
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are for India, no man can tell, but despite the contention that vegetarian races are less liable to the disease than those races which eat large quantities of meat, there is no surgeon in India, who would fail to bear witness to the multitude of tragedies for which this disease is responsible. We are often told that appendicitis is a disease of modern times?more accurately a disease relatively ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Surgical Science
سال: 2011
ISSN: 2157-9407,2157-9415
DOI: 10.4236/ss.2011.26067