Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 12:36 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 12:36 AM
NCT ID:
NCT01420367
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* All patients who have their appendix removed and are found on operation to have 'simple appendicitis' as defined in the Cochrane review\[7\]. That is an appendix that is non-inflamed, acutely inflamed, phlegmonous, suppurative or mildly inflamed.
Exclusion Criteria:
* Patients who on operation are found to have 'complicated appendicitis' defined as an appendix that is gangrenous or perforated.
* Patients who pre-operatively appear to be acutely septic or for another reason require extended antibiotic therapy.
* Patients who, at operation, are found to have other pathology e.g. Meckel's Diverticulum, Intussusception; requiring surgical or medical intervention.
* Any patient whose guardian does not wish for them to participate in the study.
* Patients who have additional co-morbidities, including diabetes, immuno-suppression, cardiac, renal or liver failure.
* If the child continues to show sign of sepsis, in terms of fever, tachycardia, he/she will be discontinued from the study and be given additional doses of antibiotics, as clinically indicated.
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
4 Years
Maximum Age:
17 Years
Study:
NCT01420367
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT01420367