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Using shock index, pediatric age adjusted (SIPA) to predict prolonged length of stay in perforated appendicitis
2024-07-19
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Purpose Hospital length of stay (LOS) following admission for appendicitis is difficult to predict. Shock index, pediatric age adjusted (SIPA) accurately identifies severely injured trauma patients and predicts mortality among children admitted to the ICU. Our aim was to determine if elevated SIPA at presentation, and time to normalization of SIPA, can identify children with perforated...
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- Literature Corpus work
- d0952472-73a2-5125-aa09-1094e7370b31
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4646182/v1
