• These resources are targeted at providing you with a general approach to abdominal pain rather than the specific diagnostic and management steps for each of the many causes of abdominal pain.
• Remember to always consider cardiac and metabolic causes of abdominal pain and think ectopic pregnancy and testicular torsion in females and males respectively.
• Abdominal pain in children, adults and elderly patients require separate diagnostic and prognostic considerations.
• If you think AAA may be a differential diagnosis – Talk to a senior about ED AAA Ultrasound

Introduction to abdominal pain

Abdominal Pain from SEMEP on Vimeo.

 Learning resources

• ALiEM (Academic Life in Emergency Medicine)
  • 10 tips to approaching abdominal pain in the elderly
• Abdominal pain in Children – Don’t Forget the Bubbles
  • Series of  blogs General approach, Surgical causes & ED management.
• RCEM Learning module
  • Abdominal trauma
  • Abdominal pain without shock
  • A lady with a lump
• BMJ learning
  • The acute surgical abdomen in children
  • Abdominal pain in children
  • Surgical causes of acute abdomen during pregnancy

 X-ray interpretation

 

Think : Do you really need that abdominal x-ray…?

•  RadiologyMasterclasses.com
  • AXR interpretation
• BMJ learning
  • Abdominal x-rays: a guide to interpretation
• Doctors.net.uk
  • Abdominal radiograph interpretation