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Abdominal and Gastrointestinal Emergencies, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

  • 1st Edition, Volume 34-2 - May 6, 2016
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Joseph P. Martinez, Autumn C. Graham
  • Language: English

This issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, edited by Drs. Joseph Martinez and Autumn Graham, focuses on Abdominal and Gastrointestinal Emergencies. Articles include: Ga… Read more

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This issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, edited by Drs. Joseph Martinez and Autumn Graham, focuses on Abdominal and Gastrointestinal Emergencies. Articles include: Gastrointestinal Bleed; Abdominal pain in the Immuncompromised Patient Lower Abdominal Pain: Diverticulitis, Colitis, Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Appendicitis;Acute Abdominal Pain in the Bariatric Surgery Patient;The Vomiting Patient: Bowel Obstruction, Cyclic Vomiting and Gastroparesis; Diarrhea; Non-abdominal Abdominal Pain;Evidence Based Approach to Abdominal Pain;Abdominal Pain in the Geriatric Patient; Abdominal Pain in Children; Evaluating the patient with Right upper quadrant abdominal pain, and more!

Table of contents

1. Foreword: “Oh, My Aching Belly!”

2. Preface: Abdominal and Gastrointestinal Emergencies

3. Evidence-Based Medicine Approach to Abdominal Pain

4. Approach to Patients with Epigastric Pain

5. Evaluating the Patient with Right Upper Quadrant Abdominal Pain

6. Lower Abdominal Pain

7. Anorectal Complaints in the Emergency Department

8. The Vomiting Patient: Small Bowel Obstruction, Cyclic Vomiting, and Gastroparesis

9. Diarrhea: Initial Evaluation and Treatment in the Emergency Department

10. Gastrointestinal Bleeding

11. Abdominal Vascular Catastrophes

12. Pediatric Abdominal Pain: An Emergency Medicine Perspective

13. Abdominal Pain in the Geriatric Patient

14. Abdominal Pain in the Immunocompromised Patient—Human Immunodeficiency
Virus, Transplant, Cancer

15. Acute Abdominal Pain in the Bariatric Surgery Patient

16. Abdominal Pain Mimics

17. Index

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 34-2
  • Published: July 28, 2016
  • Language: English

About the authors

JM

Joseph P. Martinez

Associate Professor
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

AG

Autumn C. Graham

Associate Residency Program Director
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Residency Program Director, Department of Emergency Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, MedStar Washington Hospital Center Emergency Medicine Residency, Washington, DC