Rapid Review: Appendicitis

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Acute appendicitis

Appendicitis

  • Patient will be complaining of fever, pain that began periumbilical then moved to RLQ, nausea and anorexia
  • PE will show Psoas sign (RLQ pain on extension of right hip), Obturator sign (RLQ pain on internal rotation of flexed right hip), Rovsing sign (right lower quadrant pain when the left lower quadrant is palpated)
  • Diagnosis is made by ultrasound, CT
  • Most commonly caused by fecalith
  • Treatment is surgery

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Adam Rosh is the founder and CEO of Rosh Review, which he created in 2011. He received his BA and MS from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He received his medical degree from Rutgers Medical School and completed his emergency medicine residency training at New York University/Bellevue Hospital Center, where he was chief resident. Dr. Rosh went on to serve as assistant residency director and residency director at Detroit Receiving Hospital.

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