Status of Day Care Laparoscopic Appendectomy in Developing Countries

Table 3

Day care appendectomies.

Author	Study design	Types and number of patients	Appendectomies	D/C < 24 hrs	RR
Schreiber [1]	Retrospective	Acute and subacute appendicitis; 𝑛=78	Laparoscopic	Outpatient, 100%	5
Brosseuk and Bathe [2]	Retrospective	Acute appendicitis; 𝑛=52	Laparoscopic	75%	—
Velhote et al. [3]	Prospective	Appendicitis; 𝑛=144	Open	86%	2
Alvarez and Voitk [4]	Case series	Perforated appendicitis; 𝑛=38	Laparoscopic	57%	Nil
Pfeil et al. [5]	Case series	Appendicitis; 𝑛=56	Open	100%	—
Bensard et al. [6]	Case series	Appendicitis; 𝑛=72	Laparoscopic	66%; (acute appendicitis); 27%; (suppurative appendicitis)	Nil in both cases
Gilliam et al. [7]	Case series	Acute appendicitis	Laparoscopic	72%	—
Alkhoury et al. [8]	Case series	Appendicitis; 𝑛=207	Laparoscopic	78.3%; (same day)	2.2–2.5%
Present study	Case series	Acute appendicitis	Laparoscopic	100%; 87%; (same day)	Nil

(D/C: discharge; RR: readmission rate).