"Children with abdominal pain are a diagnostic conundrum. On the one hand those who have appendicitis need to be diagnosed in a timely manner, but on the other hand the most common diagnostic tool we ...

Abdominal pain is among the most common reasons children are taken to the emergency department. A small proportion of them usually have appendicitis, and timely detection is essential.

In a new study published in the journal The Lancet, researchers have explored the possibility of treating acute, non-perforated appendicitis in children with antibiotics instead of surgery.

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First Nations man suffering acute appendicitis attack denied care at northern Manitoba ER, suit claims Sick Indigenous elder accused of being drunk at Winnipeg hospital, family says Those details ...

Our current practice at a large teaching hospital is to use CT only for patients whose diagnosis remains in question after a thorough history, physical examination, and focused laboratory assessment.

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It can be argued that in US Emergency Departments, the diagnosis of acute appendicitis has shifted from clinical impression to radiographic confirmation, even for patients for whom the diagnosis ...

In response to criticism that the test is not a reliable assessment tool, psychologists have worked to improve and validate the Rorschach over time. They have developed standardized protocols to ...

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