A Clinical Study of Effectiveness of Mannheim Peritonitis Index in Predicting Morbidity and Mortality of Patients With Hollow Viscus Perforation: In a Tertiary Care Hospital

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVESPeritonitis due to hollow viscous perforation is one of the most common surgical emergencies in surgical practice. This may be due to persistence of the various risk factors among population like H. pylori infection, NSAID's, enteric fever and several others. This condition needs an emergency surgical intervention, a scoring system should be able to assess the need, type and quality of the care required for a particular patient. Realizing the need for a simple accurate scoring system in these conditions, the present study was undertaken to evaluate the performance of MPI scoring system in predicting the risks of morbidity and mortality in patients with peritonitis due to hollow viscous perforation.