Abdominal and Gastrointestinal Emergencies, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Associate Professor Associate Residency Program Director

1. Foreword: "Oh, My Aching Belly!”
2. Preface: Abdominal and Gastrointestinal Emergencies
3. Evidence-Based Medicine Approach to Abdominal Pain
4. Approach to Patients with Epigastric Pain
5. Evaluating the Patient with Right Upper Quadrant Abdominal Pain
6. Lower Abdominal Pain
7. Anorectal Complaints in the Emergency Department
8. The Vomiting Patient: Small Bowel Obstruction, Cyclic Vomiting, and Gastroparesis
9. Diarrhea: Initial Evaluation and Treatment in the Emergency Department
10. Gastrointestinal Bleeding
11. Abdominal Vascular Catastrophes
12. Pediatric Abdominal Pain: An Emergency Medicine Perspective
13. Abdominal Pain in the Geriatric Patient
14. Abdominal Pain in the Immunocompromised Patient-Human Immunodeficiency
Virus, Transplant, Cancer
15. Acute Abdominal Pain in the Bariatric Surgery Patient
16. Abdominal Pain Mimics
17. Index