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 14-year-old boy attends the Paediatric ED with a 2 day history of worsening colicky central abdominal pain.
This session looks at the techniques available to collect urine samples from children in an emergency department. It discusses the evidence basis and the relative merits of each technique
A 22-year-old man presents to the ED following a collapse with abdominal pain and no history of trauma.
A 77-year-old woman presents to the ED with generalised abdominal pain. She describes the pain as dull and constant, accompanied by nausea, vomiting, and anorexia.
An 82-year-old nursing home resident is brought into the ED with abdominal distension and a 2 day history of constipation.
This module describes focused ultrasound for suspected abdominal aortic aneurysm.
25 questions. 25 minutes. Test yourself against your colleagues!
A hypotensive female in her 60s is pre-alerted to resus with severe abdominal pain radiating to both shoulders.
A 37-year-old man is brought into the emergency department following a road traffic collision.
A 75-year-old female with no significant past medical history
presents to the ED with sudden onset of sharp left upper
quadrant pain.
This module provides information on Pancreatitis, including the diagnosis, basic science, assessment and management.
This module provides information on Pancreatitis, including the diagnosis, basic science, assessment and management.
A 17-year-old female presents with abdominal pain one day after falling from a bicycle.
A 47-year-old lady presents with acute epigastric pain radiating to the back.
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.
A frail elderly female is brought to the emergency department following two episodes of “coffee-ground vomit”.
This session covers the diagnosis and initial management of a patient with acute aortic dissection.
This module deals with the assessment and management of patients with appendicitis.