Toni is a 35-year-old lady who attends the ED regularly with chest pain. Nothing seems to make it better, and her troponin is always normal. You wonder if there is a potential cause. Read on to find out that there is more to IBS than abdominal pain.
Toni is a 35-year-old lady who attends the ED regularly with chest pain. Nothing seems to make it better, and her troponin is always normal. You wonder if there is a potential cause. Read on to find out that there is more to IBS than abdominal pain.
A 12-year-old girl is brought to your ED with abdominal pain and a urine dip is done.
This month we have New in EM – BP targets in spinal cord injury | Guidelines for EM – New Zealand Chest Wall Injury | Gender and assessment of abdominal pain with Charlotte Underwood.
A 14-year-old boy attends the Paediatric ED with a 2 day history of worsening colicky central abdominal pain.
A 13-year-old girl presents to the Paediatric ED with a 48 hour history of nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.
30 questions. 30 minutes. Test yourself against your colleagues!
A young male has concerning symptoms with a background history of G6PD deficiency…
A 22-year-old man presents to the ED following a collapse with abdominal pain and no history of trauma.
A 60-year-old man presents with 2 days of constant left lower quadrant pain, low-grade fever, and loose stools. He is haemodynamically stable with mild C-reactive protein elevation and no peritonism.
Small magnets in small people.
A young female footballer presents with a swollen, painful knee after being tackled. Examination reveals a large effusion.
A 34-year-old male presents to your ED in acute pain and you suspect ureteric colic. How will you manage this?
A hypotensive female in her 60s is pre-alerted to resus with severe abdominal pain radiating to both shoulders.
Understanding paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (PIMS-TS).
Young adult female patient presenting to the ED with abdominal pain, constipation and confusing findings in erect abdominal x-ray.
Understanding paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome.
A 7-year-old girl presents with an acute, painful hot knee and a red-purple non-blanching rash.
A 34-year-old man, with history of recent foreign travel, presents to the ED with fever, jaundice and right upper quadrant pain. Physical exam shows right upper quadrant tenderness.
Abdominal pain is a common presentation in paediatrics-increasing as the child gets older. Hopefully, this blog will serve as a guide of what to look for, when to refer and when to worry!
This guideline sets out the standards for timeliness of provision of analgesia and provides an approach to the delivery of analgesia for adult patients presenting to the ED.