RIPASA Score for Acute Appendicitis
Diagnoses appendicitis with lab values and clinical findings, especially for Asian populations.
Advice
In settings where advanced imaging is used more liberally, the performance of the RIPASA Score is unclear, and no study has yet assessed its impact when applied clinically.
Management
We are unaware of validated management algorithms using the RIPASA Score.
Critical Actions
The RIPASA Score integrates and thus requires a number of laboratory test results and historical features, and while accuracy is high in initial studies, a larger more rigorous validation and/or implementation study would be very useful.