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!
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Copyright - p. 4 5. Contributors - p. 5 6. Forthcoming Issues - p. 8 7. CME Accreditation Page - p. 9 8. Foreword: “Oh, My Aching Belly!” - p. 10 9. Preface: Abdominal and Gastrointestinal Emergencies - p. 11 10. Evidence-Based Medicine Approach to Abdominal Pain - p. 12 11. Approach to Patients with Epigastric Pain - p. 26 12. Evaluating the Patient with Right Upper Quadrant Abdominal Pain - p. 36 13. Lower Abdominal Pain - p. 45 14. Anorectal Complaints in the Emergency Department - p. 57 15. The Vomiting Patient - p. 66 16. Diarrhea - p. 76 17. Gastrointestinal Bleeding - p. 85 18. Abdominal Vascular Catastrophes - p. 95 19. Pediatric Abdominal Pain - p. 102 20. Abdominal Pain in the Geriatric Patient - p. 112 21. Abdominal Pain in the Immunocompromised Patient—Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Transplant, Cancer - p. 120 22. Acute Abdominal Pain in the Bariatric Surgery Patient - p. 126 23. Abdominal Pain Mimics - p. 136 24. The Opioid Epidemic in the United States - p. 145 25. Index - p. 158
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!
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Copyright - p. 4 5. Contributors - p. 5 6. Forthcoming Issues - p. 8 7. CME Accreditation Page - p. 9 8. Foreword: “Oh, My Aching Belly!” - p. 10 9. Preface: Abdominal and Gastrointestinal Emergencies - p. 11 10. Evidence-Based Medicine Approach to Abdominal Pain - p. 12 11. Approach to Patients with Epigastric Pain - p. 26 12. Evaluating the Patient with Right Upper Quadrant Abdominal Pain - p. 36 13. Lower Abdominal Pain - p. 45 14. Anorectal Complaints in the Emergency Department - p. 57 15. The Vomiting Patient - p. 66 16. Diarrhea - p. 76 17. Gastrointestinal Bleeding - p. 85 18. Abdominal Vascular Catastrophes - p. 95 19. Pediatric Abdominal Pain - p. 102 20. Abdominal Pain in the Geriatric Patient - p. 112 21. Abdominal Pain in the Immunocompromised Patient—Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Transplant, Cancer - p. 120 22. Acute Abdominal Pain in the Bariatric Surgery Patient - p. 126 23. Abdominal Pain Mimics - p. 136 24. The Opioid Epidemic in the United States - p. 145 25. Index - p. 158
