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CL17 - Acute Abdominal Pain
Length:
58m 33s -
101 Slides
Following the presentation of Acute Abdominal Pain, Recognizing ‘Cannot Miss’ Etiologies, the learner should be able to:
- Identify potential challenges to the clinical assessment of abdominal pain
- Recognize atypical presentations of abdominal pain requiring surgical intervention
- Consider non-gastrointestinal diseases which may present with referred abdominal pain
- Identify key components of the approach to patients with abdominal pain which will reduce the likelihood of missing potentially life-threatening diseases
- Gain an appreciation for the high morbidity and mortality of undifferentiated abdominal pain in the elderly
- Recognize several diagnoses that should be reconsidered before being applied to a patient
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