Management tactics for patients with acute appendicitis during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

The specific management tactics of patients with acute surgical pathology, in particular, with acute appendicitis,
during the COVID-19 pandemic has been presented. The features of the clinic, diagnostics and surgical treatment tactics have been given. The features of the development of the clinical course with acute surgical abdominal pathology with suspected COVID-19 were described. A similar period outside of work in the conditions of
COVID-19 was taken as a comparison period. The study is devoted to the clinical features of acute abdominal
surgical pathology in the context of a pandemic of a new coronavirus infection and the development of an optimal
algorithm of surgical tactics aimed at reducing the time of decision-making and assistance while minimizing the
risk of infection.