Abstract

PERALTA R., Karen Viviana; CABALLERO R., Carlos Andrés  and  MORA V., Mónica del Pilar. DIAGNOSTIC VALIDITY OF THE ALVARADO SCALE IN PATIENTS WITH APPENDICITIS, SUGESTIVE OF ABDOMINAL PAIN, IN A THIRD LEVEL HOSPITAL OF SOUTHERN BOGOTA. rev.udcaactual.divulg.cient. [online]. 2017, vol.20, n.1, pp.5-11. ISSN 0123-4226.

Acute abdominal pain is one of the symptoms which a patient attends the emergency room of any hospital worldwide, representing a 5 to 10% of those consultations; this represents for the emergency doctor and specialists interconsulted a challenge, because it contains several conditions that may or may not be surgical and not be diagnosed properly and promptly can be fatal, within these, is appendicitis, pathological and surgical condition which most often is faced the surgeon general. The patient may present with signs and varied symptoms ranging from a clear picture of appendicitis, or have no signs or symptoms suggestive as this pathology diagnosis; so scales have been developed to facilitate or provide help to the doctor for a correct diagnosis and subsequent treatment; Alvarado makes the scale of these diagnostic aids, being a non-invasive, fast and reliable economical method. Was evaluated by means of this project the validity of the scale in the USS Tunal IIII level to be one of the largest and busiest hospitals in Bogota, for this sample of 161 patients was taken Hospital and rated each parameter in addition to comparing the scores given by the same scale and histopathological diagnosis. The results show that the scale is sensitive but not specific for the diagnosis of appendicitis.

Keywords : Appendicitis; Alvarado scale; diagnosis; false positives.

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