UPDATE COURSE REWIND- WHO TO SEND HOME FROM THE OR: LAPAROSCOPIC APPENDECTOMY FOR A NON-PERFORATED APPENDICITIS PART 2

We are back with another Update Course Rewind video from the Update Course in Pediatric Surgery 2023.

This time we are presenting you "Who to Send Home from the OR: Non-perforated appendicitis 2023" with Drs. Mark Wulkan, Justin Huntington, Tolulope Oyetunji, & Phillip Ben Ham.

Host: Cecilia Gigena

In this session surgeons discuss when a patient should receive antibiotics, if any, after a Laparoscopic appendectomy for non-perforated appendicitis. Non-operative management is also discussed.

00:00 Introduction

00:38 Case Scenario

01:04 Non-operative management

02:31 Same day discharge after surgery

03:08 NSQIP data analysis

04:10 Summary