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Appendicitis – What are Appendicitis Medications? | Medications For Appendicitis

Administer one dose preoperative antibiotics to children with suspected appendicitis and stop administration after surgery if no perforation is noted. Patients who present with perforated appendicitis may be volume depleted and in need of aggressive fluid resuscitation. Administer a combination of ampicillin, clindamycin, and gentamicin to prevent infection from aerobic and anaerobic organisms. Alternative regimens include ampicillin/sulbactam, cefoxitin, cefotetan, piperacillin/tazobactam, ticarcillin/clavulanate, and imipenem/cilastatin. Fifteen percent of patients with a ruptured appendix may develop resistant organisms and require a change in the antibiotics initially chosen.

This procedure may be performed through a conventional abdominal incision or using a laparoscope. In both approaches the patient is asleep under general anaesthesia. Convalescence in the hospital is 1 to 3 days. Typically much shorter if performed laparoscopically. Rupture of the appendix can lengthen recovery time considerably.The following drugs and medications are in some way related to, or used in the treatment of Appendectomy. This service should be used as a supplement to, and NOT a substitute for, the expertise, skill, knowledge and judgment of healthcare practitioners.

Pain from appendicitis can be severe. Strong pain medications are recommended for pain management prior to surgery. Morphine is generally the standard of care in adults and children in the treatment of pain from appendicitis prior to surgery.In the past, it has been commonly accepted that pain medication not be given until the surgeon has the chance to evaluate the patient, so as to not “corrupt” the findings of the physical examination. This line of practice, combined with the fact that surgeons may sometimes take hours to come to evaluate the patient, especially if he or she is in the middle of surgery or has to drive in from home, often leads to a situation that is ethically questionable at best.

More recently, due to better understanding of the importance of pain control in patients, it has been shown that the physical examination is actually not that dramatically disturbed when pain medication is given prior to medical evaluation. Individual hospitals and clinics have adapted to this new approach of pain management of appendicitis by developing a compromise of allowing the surgeon a maximum time to arrive for evaluation, such as 20 to 30 minutes, before active pain management is initiated. Many surgeons also advocate this new approach of providing pain management immediately rather than only after surgical evaluation.

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