Abdominal Pain Basics

You are working at Clerkship General when you hear an EMS call on the base command radio. “Clerkship General. We are bringing you a minimally responsive 79 year-old female found lying on the floor inside her apartment. ETA 5 minutes” Initial Vitals: HR: 143 BP: 160/105 Temp: 106. ...  Show more

Abdominal pain is one of the most common complaints in the ED. In this podcast we will review how to get a good history, how to do a solid abdominal exam, and a systematic method for figuring out how to effectively use imaging with to make a diagnosis or, at the very least, rule ...  Show more

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A 25-year-old patient is being evaluated for pain in the region of the right oblique abdominis muscle that has been present for 1 week. The patient describes the pain as deep and has progressively worsened in the last 3 days, with only mild relief felt when the patient bends over ...  Show more

This lesson introduces our course Spanish for Abdominal Pain based on a clinical dialogue I wrote and recorded with a friend from the Dominican Republic, who plays the patient, and another friend from the states who learned Spanish while living in Latin America. In this lesson, L ...  Show more