Diffuse abdominal pain
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Background
Clinical Features
Differential Diagnosis
Diffuse Abdominal pain
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Acute gastroenteritis
- Aortoenteric fisulta
- Appendicitis (early)
- Bowel obstruction
- Bowel perforation
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Gastroparesis
- Hernia
- Hypercalcemia
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Mesenteric ischemia
- Pancreatitis
- Peritonitis
- Sickle cell crisis
- Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
- Volvulus
Workup
- CBC
- Chem
- LFTs
- Lipase
- Coags
- UA
- Urine pregnancy (female)
- ECG (>40 yo)
- Guaiac
- ?Lactate
- ?CT abd/pelvis
Management
- Treat underlying disease process
- Opiod pain medication (e.g. morphine) may improve localization of physical exam
Disposition
- Disposition per underlying disease process