Acute abdominal pain of less than 1 weeks duration which has not - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Acute abdominal pain of less than 1 weeks duration which has not - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Acute abdominal pain of less than 1 weeks duration which has not been previously investigated of treated Rapid onset of severe symptoms that may indicate life-threatening intra-abdominal pathology sudden, severe abdominal pain of
Acute abdominal pain of less than 1 weeks duration
which has not been previously investigated of treated
Rapid onset of severe symptoms that may indicate
life-threatening intra-abdominal pathology
sudden, severe abdominal pain of unclear etiology
that is less than 24 hours in duration.
pain in the abdomen that usually comes on suddenly
and is so severe that one may have to go to the hospital.
ACUTE APPENDICITIS ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS ACUTE PANCREATITIS ACUTE DIVERTICULITIS ACUTE SMALL BOWEL OBSTRUCTION ACUTE LARGE BOWEL OBSTRUCTION PERFORATED PEPTIC ULCER ACUTE URINARY TRACT INFECTION GYNAECOLOGICAL CAUSES GASTROENTERITIS
RUPTURED AAA MESENTERIC ISCHAEMIA EXACERBATION OF PEPTIC ULCER INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE PNEUMONIA MEDICAL CONDITIONS MISCELLANEOUS CAUSES
CAREFUL AND A DETAILED HISTORY THOROUGH CLINICAL EXAMINATION RELEVANT INVESTIGATIONS
SITE MODE OF ONSET SEVERITY CHARACTER DURATION RADIATION AGGRAVATING FACTORS RELIEVING FACTORS ACCOMPANIMENTS
THE AREAS OF THE ABDOMINAL WALL
SUDDEN
- PERFORATION
VASCULAR ACCIDENT OTHER MECHANICAL EVENT Eg. Volvulus
INSIDIOUS
INFLAMMATORY SLOW LEAKS SYMPTOMS FROM ADHESIONAL OBSTRUCTION
PERFORATED PEPTIC ULCER PANCREATITIS BILIARY COLIC PERFORATED DIVERTICULITIS MESENTERIC ISCHAEMIA RUPTURED AAA URETERIC COLIC TWISTED OVARIAN CYST
COLICKY
- SMALL BOWEL OBSTRUCTION
- LARGE BOWEL OBSTRUCTION
- BILIARY OBSTRUCTION
- URETERIC OBSTRUCTION
- M ESENTERIC VASCULAR OCCLUSION
CONSTANT
- PERITONEAL INFLAMMATION (PERITONITIS)
- PERITONEAL IRRITATION (INTRAPERITONEAL BLEEDING)
THROBBING ORGAN FULL OF PUS LIKE OBSTRUCTIVE
APPENDICITIS AND EMPYAEMA OF GALL BLADDER
STABBING RUPTURED AORTIC ANEURYSM
EPIGASTRIUM TO BACK------------PANCREATITIS EPIGASTRIUM TO BACK, UNDER THE COSTAL
MARGINS AND IN TO THE CHEST—BILIARY COLIC
HIGH LOIN TO UPPER ABDOMEN—RENAL COLIC LOIN TO GROIN ----URETERIC COLIC LOIN TO GROIN----- OVARIAN PATHOLOGY
MOVEMENT--- PERITONITIS COUGHING----PERITONITIS MEALS-----EXACERBATION OF GASTRIC ULCER LYING FLAT----PANCREATITIS STRAIGHTENING THE HIPS—LOWER AB
PERITONITIS
HEAD LOW CAUSING SHOULDER TIP PAIN---
BLOOD IN THE PERITONEAL CAVITY EG. RUPTURED ECTOPIC
MICTURITION---INFLAMMED APPENDIX ON
BLADDER, TWISTED OV CYST
LYING STILL PERITONITIS KEEPING HIPS BENT PELVIC PERITONTIS LEANING FORWARDS PANCREATITIS PASSING FLATUS OR FAECES – COLONIC
OBSTRUCTION
VOMITING----SMALL BOWEL
OBSTRUCTION,GASTRIC ULCER
MEALS ----EXACERBATION OF DUODENAL ULCER
GENERAL ABDOMINAL RECTAL VAGINAL OTHER SYSTEMS
Does the patient look ill? Is the patient lying comfortably in bed? Is the patient in pain? Is the patient finding it difficult to breathe? Is the pt tachypnoec? Is the patient tachycardic? Does the patient look pale? Is the patient jaundiced?
- MOVEMENT WITH RESPIRATION
- DISTENSION
- VISIBLE PERISTALSIS
- TENDERNESS
- GUARDING
- RIGIDITY
- REBOUND TENDERNESS
- OBLITERATION OF LIVER DULLNESS
- QUALITY OF PERISTALSIS
CULLEN’S SIGN GRAY-TURNER SIGN ROVSING’S SIGN MURPHY’S SIGN PSOAS SIGN OBTURATOR SIGN
FBC C REACTIVE PROTEIN LEVEL UREA AND ELECTROLYTES URINE DIPSTICK TEST SERUM AMYLASE LIVER FUNCTION TESTS URINE PREGNANCY TEST X-RAY CHEST ERECT X-RAY ABDOMEN ARTERIAL BLOOD GASES USS AND CT SCANNING
- THE PATIENT NEEDS IMMEDIATE SURGERY
THE PATIENT DOES NOT NEED IMMEDIATE
SURGERY
NEED FOR URGENT SURGICAL
INTERVENTION UNCERTAIN
NG TUBE IV FLUIDS CATHETER ANALGESIA ANTIBIOTICS? GROUP AND SAVE LIAISE WITH ITU REGISTRAR CONSENT AND BOOK THEATRE INFORM ON CALL ANAESTHETIST
CAN BE INVESTIGATED MORE
LEISURELY
REVIEW BY THE SAME TEAM ADVICE FROM OTHER TEAMS EG.
GYNAECOLOGISTS
USS CT DIAGNOSTIC LAPAROSCOPY