{"id":1359,"date":"2017-03-23T06:09:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T10:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roshreview.com\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2024-01-31T18:13:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T18:13:11","slug":"rapid-review-appendicitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roshreview.com\/blog\/rapid-review-appendicitis\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Review: Appendicitis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Reviewed January 2024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"781\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roshreview.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/Image-Appendicitis-@8x-781x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.roshreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/Image-Appendicitis-@8x-781x1024.png 781w, https:\/\/www.roshreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/Image-Appendicitis-@8x-229x300.png 229w, https:\/\/www.roshreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/Image-Appendicitis-@8x-768x1007.png 768w, https:\/\/www.roshreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/Image-Appendicitis-@8x-1172x1536.png 1172w, https:\/\/www.roshreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/Image-Appendicitis-@8x-1563x2048.png 1563w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"p1 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Appendicitis<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s2\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"ul1 wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sx: fever, <strong>pain that began periumbilical then moved to RLQ<\/strong>, nausea, and anorexia<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PE: <strong>psoas sign<\/strong> (RLQ pain on extension of right hip), <strong>obturator sign<\/strong> (RLQ pain on internal rotation of flexed right hip), <strong>Rovsing sign<\/strong> (RLQ pain when the LLQ is palpated)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dx: CT (adults), ultrasound (pediatric or pregnant patients), MRI (pregnant patients with nondiagnostic ultrasound)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Most commonly caused by <strong>fecalith<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tx: <strong>appendectomy<\/strong>, nonoperative management with antibiotics in select patients<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed January 2024 Appendicitis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":6906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2020,1996,2021,2022,2023,2024,2025,2026,2027,2028,2029,2010,2011,2012,2013,2000],"tags":[2181,3152,3396,3493],"coauthors":[3823],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-gerontology-primary-care","category-blogtype","category-pa-certified","category-certified-emergency-nurse","category-clinical-year","category-didactic-year","category-emergency-medicine","category-emergency-nurse-practitioner","category-family-medicine","category-family-nurse-practitioner","category-internal-medicine","category-ob-gyn","category-pediatric-emergency-medicine","category-pediatric-primary-care","category-pediatrics","category-rapid-review","tag-appendicitis","tag-obturator-sign","tag-psoas-sign","tag-rovsing-sign"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rapid Review: Appendicitis - RoshReview.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This Rapid Review distills the important facts about appendicitis, so you can brush up your knowledge and be a confident medical professional. 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