Our director Prof Ramani Moonesinghe led a study to investigate incidence and epidemiology of postoperative complications in children undergoing appendicectomy in the UK and was published in Anaesthesia journal.

Appendicectomy, the removal of the appendix, is a common surgical procedure in children. The study included 2,799 children aged 1-16 within 80 hospitals across the UK. Of these, 185 (7%) developed postoperative complications.

 

Analysis of the data showed that black children were at a four times greater risk than white children to suffer complications after surgery. This increased risk was also independent of socioeconomic status or the type of appendicitis identified. Please read more in published paper in Anaesthesia or at Central London PSRC website. 

Read more on UCL website and Anaesthesia journal.