Appendicitis News

A father recounts his 3-year-old son's encounter with Jesus and the angels during an appendectomy.

M ANY ILLNESSES are due to inflammation. In fact, the syllable 'itis' at the end of so many medical words indicates inflammation.

AN ALBANVALE woman has vowed never to go to Footscray's Western Hospital again after a recent visit.

Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC, have successfully created and implemented an emergency general surgery registry that will advance the science of acute surgical care by allowing surgeons to track and improve surgical patient outcomes, create performance metrics, conduct valid research and ensure quality care ... (more)

Donna Stimson, of the Express Inn in Quest Hills Road, says she was treated appallingly during a three-day stay at the hospital after being admitted with a suspected case of appendicitis.

Reposted from KevinMD blog on another aspect of the health IT mission hostile user experience .

Q. I was reading a thread on the quad-list discussion group about a guy who is a C7 quad and had appendicitis and his appendix burst.

Whenever someone is scheduled for an operation, the assigned nurse is required to fill out a "pre-op checklist" to ensure that all safety and quality metrics are being adhered to.

The next time you have surgery, a large, four-armed robot could be among the instruments the surgeon uses to remove your appendix or to repair your colon.

Man is not the only one to hide behind a mask - the mental disorder of depersonalization every so often hide itself behind the mask of medical emergency - physical disorders that could lead to a trip to the ER.

The mother of a man left severely disabled at birth following a hospital blunder has finally succeeded in a battle for 6million compensation to pay for his care.

It may take members of our parents' generation a long time to get over thinking of hospitals as refuges of safety and operating rooms as harbingers of better days ahead.

Encouraging news has come from New York of the condition of Dr. Henry Tevis, who underwent an operation for appendicitis on his arrival from Europe a few days ago.

The Hamad Medical Corporation has scored a first in the Middle East by introducing the latest device in the field of less invasive laparoscopy - Spider Surgical Platform - for weight loss, especially gastric band and sleeve procedures for trimming the stomach in obese people.

Robert Thomas, 14, who plays the part of the king in this year's Attleborough Players production of Sing a Song of Sixpence, underwent keyhole surgery on Wednesday after suffering appendicitis.

As the world speeds up we tend to assume that newer must be better. In some instances it is but when it comes to health, less so than one might expect.

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Poverty and unfavorable health insurance account for only a small portion of the gap in the number of white versus Hispanic or black children who end up with a burst appendix, according to a new study.

Objective To estimate how much of the gap in appendicitis perforation rates between minority and white children is explained by differences in socioeconomic and insurance factors.