Emergency Abdominal Laparoscopic Surgery During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic: Experience in a Private Center in Peru.

During the Health Emergency due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Peru, elective surgeries were suspended and only emergency surgeries were allowed. Conservative management was considered as an alternative and laparoscopic surgery was indicated following safety recommendations. Surgically operated patients were at higher risk of becoming infected with COVID-19 due to hospital exposure, being more susceptible to complications.

[Appendiceal inflammatory mass management in adult patients at Cayetano Heredia National Hospital].

Objective: To know the outcomes of the management of adult patients with appendiceal inflammatory mass at Cayetano Heredia National Hospital.

Material And Methods: This is a retrospective and descriptive study, where data collection from medical records of patients with appendiceal inflammatory mass who were managed at Cayetano Heredia National Hospital from 2006 to 2010 was done.

Results: 77 patients were included in this study.

[Intraoperative events unexpected and conversion in patients laparoscopic cholecystectomy: male and independent risk factor].

Background: Studies have been done trying to confirm the impression that laparascopic cholecystecotmy tends to be more complicacted and takes longer in men than in women. The analysis of sex as an independent risk factor has been done in various studies with mixed results.

Aims: To assess if male gender is an independent risk factor for unexpected intraoperative events, conversion and longer operating time in a restrospective cohort based on a population of 1029 patients from one surgeon in a national hospital in Lima, from 1996 to 2010.

[Predictive mortality value of the peritonitis index of Mannheim].

Objective: To determine the predictive value of the index of peritonitis of Mannheim in patients with peritonitis in the Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia.

Patients And Methods: A prospective study appears, of 103 patients, greater of 14 years, with I diagnose of peritonitis, between November 2004 to April 2005. For its analysis I am used the square test of chi with coefficient of Pearson, and the test of T of student.