Title: Can appendectomy wait until the morning?<br/>Author: Robert Flint<br/><a href='http://umem.org/profiles/faculty/2561/'>[Click to email author]</a><hr/><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;">
<span id="docs-internal-guid-b998ccf3-7fff-87e3-16e4-bd2f7adb77d9"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This Scandinavian study from the Lancet says yes. They randomized 1800 patients over age 18 to appendectomy either within 8 hours or 24 hours and found no difference in perforation rate or other complications. </span></span></p>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-eb7ae6e6-7fff-3b97-bbda-4382ba945835"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Role of preoperative in-hospital delay on appendiceal perforation while awaiting appendicectomy (PERFECT): a Nordic, pragmatic, open-label, multicentre, non-inferiority, randomised controlled trial,</span></span></p>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-eb7ae6e6-7fff-3b97-bbda-4382ba945835"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Lancet, 2023</span></span></p>
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