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A Belly Full of Poison

March 26, 2014 by Kath 6 Comments

Acute appendicitis is very common. In fact, it's the most commonly encountered disease in emergency clinics with about 250,000 appendectomies performed in the United States each year. Actually, "appies" (as the hospital staff refer to them) are so common that there's even a joke about them: Q: … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Illness, Parenting Tagged With: acute appendicitis, appendectomy, appendicitis, appendix, child in hospital, Hospital, ICU, ileus, illness, intensive care unit, peritonitis, sepsis, septic shock, septicaemia

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