Issue №4-92, 2019

Local skin temperature reaction as a criterion of dmwtherapy effectiveness and safety in postoperative period in children with destructive appendicitis



1 Solovyeva Y.R., 1 Karaseva O.V., 1 Vasilyeva M.F., 2 Petrichuk S.V.

1 Clinical and Research Institute of Emergency Pediatric Surgery and Traumatology, Moscow, Russia
2 National Center of Children’s Health, Moscow, Russia


ABSTRACT

To assess effectiveness of physiotherapy is not an easy task. 120 children, aged 3 – 17, who were operated on for variousforms of destructive appendicitis, were taken into the study. Boys – 54.1% (n-65), girls – 45.9% (n –55); average age 10,7+ 3,3 years. In the main group, patients had decimeter-wave therapy (DMW-therapy) sessions since the first day of theirpostoperative period. Patients in the comparison group had no any physiotherapeutic sessions. Thermography was usedto assess DMW-therapy effectiveness. By the 5th postoperative day, skin temperature in postoperative zone and differencetemperature between right and left iliac regions were normalized in patients from the main group both in case of destructiveappendicitis (DA) and appendicular peritonitis (AP). It indicates the acceleration of regression inflammatory changesunder the decimeter-wave irradiation. Thermography can be a tool for evaluating DMW-therapy effectiveness in childrenwith destructive appendicitis.


KEYWORDS: physiotherapy, children, destructive appendicitis, appendicular peritonitis, DMW-physiotherapy, medical thermography.



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