TULAA: A Minimally Invasive Appendicectomy Technique for the Paediatric Patient

Table 3

Comparison of outcomes with College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) database for 2005 to 2008, data published by Fleming et al. [29].

	⁢Fleming et al. [29]		⁢Range of mean/median or percentage value reported in the literature for TULAEA
	Open appendicectomy	Laparoscopic appendicectomy	Including all studies	Including only studies with >100 patients
Operating time	49 minutes (M)	47 minutes (M)	15–58.6 minutes (M/μ)	15–58.6 minutes (M/μ)
Hospital stay	2.3 days	1.8 days	2–7.9 days (M/μ)	2–7.9 days (M/μ)
Conversion rate	N/A	1.9%	0–15%	0–15%
Surgical wound infection	5.2%	1.7%	0–13.7%	0–6.3%
Organ space infection	1.9%	1.8%	0–3.8%	0–3.8%

M: median, μ: mean, M/μ: range of median or mean values reported in the literature, and N/A: not applicable.