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Abdominal pain. Gastroenteritis. Objectives: You students will be able to. determine the origin of abdominal pain from particular attention to a detailed description of the pain and associated symptoms. get the DD depending on physical finding and proper diagnostic approach.
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Abdominal pain Gastroenteritis
Objectives: You students will be able to • determine the origin of abdominal pain from particular attention to a detailed description of the pain and associated symptoms. • get the DD depending on physical finding and proper diagnostic approach. • Recognize and treat GE.
Acute Abdominal Pain • One working definition of acute abdominal pain is pain so bad that the patient cannot wait until tomorrow or next week for a physician appointment.
Structural approach to the DD of Acute Abdominal Pain • Thoracic structure 1. Cardiac (e.g. MI) 2. Pulmonary (e.g. pneumonia) 3. Esophageal 4. Vascular (e.g. aneurysm)
1. liver 2. Gallbladder 3. pancreas 4. Stomach 5. Small Intestine 6. Large Intestine 7. kidney, ureters, bladder 8. Female reproductive organs 9. Blood vessels 10. Rectum 11. Musculoskeletal 12. Vascular -aneurysm DD (cont.): B. Abdominal structures
DD (cont.): C. Miscellaneous 1. Psychogenic 2. Metabolic (e.g. diabetes) 3. abscess 4. Infectious 5. Neoplastic 6. trauma/obstruction
Final Diagnosis for the PS of AP Pain (Acute and Chronic) in FP offices