ArticleJournal of family medicine and primary care
Clinical profile of non-traumatic acute abdominal pain presenting to an adult emergency department.
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Use of Music Mindfulness for Pain Management in the ED Waiting Room
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- Machine learning based prediction models for analyzing risk factors in patients with acute abdominal pain: a retrospective study.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
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- ACUTE ABDOMEN IN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT: ETIOLOGY, COMORBIDITY AND SEVERITY OF 1,523 PATIENTS.Arquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery · 2023Article
- Factors associated with unfavorable outcomes in patients with acute abdominal pain visiting the emergency department.BMC emergency medicine · 2022Article
- Comparative study between clinical diagnosis, plain radiography and sonography for the diagnosis of nontraumatic acute abdomen.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2022Article
- Efficacy of Acupuncture in the Treatment of Chronic Abdominal Pain.Anesthesiology and pain medicine · 2021Review
- Surgical assessment clinic - One stop emergency out-patient clinic for rapid assessment, reduced admissions and improved acute surgical service: A quality improvement study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2017Article
- Rethinking Routine: Oral Contrast-free MDCT in Acute Abdominal Pain Assessment.Euroasian journal of hepato-gastroenterologyArticle
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- Acute pancreatitis due to malaria: A case report of five patients and review of literature.Journal of family medicine and primary careArticle
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Abstract
backgroundAbdominal pain is one of the most common reasons for presenting to the emergency depatment (ED) and the etiology is varied. MATERIALS AND
methodsThis prospective observational study was conducted in a large ED of a tertiary care center in India. All patients older than 15 years and presenting with non-traumatic abdominal pain to the ED from May 2012 to October 2012 were recruited and the demographic characteristics, diagnosis and outcome were analyzed.
resultsThe study cohort included 264 patients over a 6 month period. More than half (55.6%) were aged between 15 and 40 years. There was a male predominance (56.8%). Majority of the patients (76.9%) presented with abdominal pain of less than 72 hour duration. The pain was sudden in onset in 54.9% of patients. Dull type was the most common character of pain (36%) followed by colicky type (22.3%). The most common site of pain was the lower abdomen (45.8%). Upper abdominal pain was seen in 26.9% and the pain was generalized in 27.3% of patients. The common causes were uretericcolic (16.3%), urinary tract infection (12.5%), acute pancreatitis (11%), acute appendicitis (10.6%) and acute gastritis (8%). More than half (51.9%) discharged from ED and 37% of cases were managed by the emergency physicians. Surgical intervention was required in 25.8% of patients. The mortality rate was 2.3%.
conclusionsAbdominal pain is a common ED symptom and clinicians must consider multiple diagnoses, especially those that require immediate intervention to limit morbidity and mortality.
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