Validez diagnóstica de la escala de Alvarado en pacientes con dolor abdominal sugestivo de apendicitis, en un hospital de tercer nivel, del sur de Bogotá
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Peralta R., Karen Viviana | 2017-01
Acute abdominal pain is one of the symptoms which
a patient attends the emergency room of any hospital
worldwide, representing a 5 to 10% of those consultations;
this represents for the emergency doctor and specialists
interconsulted a challenge, because it contains several
conditions that may or may not be surgical and not be
diagnosed properly and promptly can be fatal, within these, is
appendicitis, pathological and surgical condition which most
often is faced the surgeon general. The patient may present
with signs and varied symptoms ranging from a clear picture
of appendicitis, or have no signs or symptoms suggestive as
this pathology diagnosis; so scales have been developed to
facilitate or provide help to the doctor for a correct diagnosis
and subsequent treatment; Alvarado makes the scale of
these diagnostic aids, being a non-invasive, fast and reliable
economical method. Was evaluated by means of this project
the validity of the scale in the USS Tunal IIII level to be one of
the largest and busiest hospitals in Bogota, for this sample of
161 patients was taken Hospital and rated each parameter in
addition to comparing the scores given by the same scale and
histopathological diagnosis. The results show that the scale
is sensitive but not specific for the diagnosis of appendicitis
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