151026 The Acute Abdominal Pain in Emergency Medicine

Milanka Krämer (R1 MFyC) presented the topic "acute abdominal pain in emergency medicine". With reference to a clinical case, she summarized how approach the image of abdominal pain.

Key points:

1. Acute abdominal pain: sudden, severe abdominal pain with more than 50 differential diagnoses is a systematic approach absolutely necessary.
2. Analgesics: the use of pain killers do not increase the risk for a wrong diagnosis. Treatment and should be applied if necessary.
3. Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm: we should maintain ploodpresure systolic 50-100 mmhm, limit fluid resuscitation to 500ml.

Some comments on presentation by Jonathan McFarland:

Links of interest:

• Clinical Session in English. Blog Viletanos. [Citado el 18-12-2015]. Disponible en internet en: http://viletanos.blogspot.com.es/search/label/Clinical%20Session%20in%20English