Clinical follow-up of pediatric patients with abdominal pain and intraperitoneal fluid detected by ultrasound.
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Introduction: This study aimed to determine the relationship between intraperitoneal free fluid and the clinical-surgical evolution in children with abdominal pain treated in the emergency room of the Alcivar Hospital from January 2022 to July 2023.
Methods: descriptive, retrospective study. Age, sex, presence, amount, and location of intraperitoneal free fluid and its relationship with surgical clinical resolution were evaluated using the Pearson correlation coefficient and the Chi-square test.
Results: An inverse correlation was found between free fluid and the surgical resolution of abdominal pain, with a Pearson correlation coefficient of -0.18, P= 0.0000018. The age group between 11 and 15 years was the one that underwent the most minor surgery, with a Pearson correlation coefficient of -0.186, P=0.03. No statistically significant relationship was evident between sex, amount, or location of free fluid in the peritoneal cavity and the need for surgery.
Conclusions: The patients who needed surgery the least did not present free fluid in the abdominal cavity during the ultrasound examination, and children between 11 and 15 years old.
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