Incidencia de apendicitis en niños de 6 a 15 años en el hospital general Teófilo Dávila enero a abril 2022

Abstract

introduction: Appendicitis is currently considered the most common emergency worldwide due to its high incidence of cases in any corner of the world. In Ecuador, acute appendicitis in paediatric patients is one of the main causes of surgical admissions. Data published by INEC indicate that for every 10,000 Ecuadorians, 22.97 are diagnosed with appendicitis. Objective: To identify the degree of incidence of appendicitis in children from 6 to 15 years of age treated at the General Hospital Teófilo Dávila Methodology: The present scientific work is of transversal type due to the fact that the time to perform it tube a determined lapse, it was also descriptive since a systematic search of scientific information was performed in high impact journals such as: SCIELO, LATINDEX, SCOPUS, PUBMED, SCIENCEDIRECT, DIALNET, the systematization of the information was performed by means of the statistical system SPSS V26. Results: In this research topic, the degree of incidence presented in children from 6 to 15 years old with appendicitis attended at the General Hospital Teófilo Dávila was identified, in which aspects that coincide with the consulted bibliography could be evidenced such as, the highest incidence of appendicitis in children from 11 to 15 years old in an amount of 13 cases while from 6 to 10 years old we can only evidence 7 cases. Taking into account that our population is composed of 24 cases studied