Vitals & Useful Links:

• Learn about one etiology of upper abdominal pain (see spoilers below if you want to know which one) 
• Podcast: Approach to Abdominal Pain – EM Clerkship Podcast 
• Clinical Reference: Abdominal Pain – Summary from Rosen’s (From EMDocs)

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Abby (MS4) leads Arman (MS4) and Kyle (MS4) through a case she had of a 64 year old man with abdominal pain starting that morning.  How would approach this case? As always, we learn a couple very important points about one etiology of abdominal pain, and you can check out a great approach to abdominal pain on the EM Clerkship podcast, and here’s a great reference for working up abdominal pain in the ED from EMDocs (it’s a summary of Rosens – one of the great textbooks of EM). If you have any questions, concerns, or comments, please email us at emjccast@gmail.com.

*****EPISODE SPOILERS BELOW*****

Here’s the article we presented today Greenberg JA, Hsu J, Bawazeer M, et al. Clinical practice guideline: management of acute pancreatitis. Can J Surg. 2016;59(2):128-140. doi:10.1503/cjs.015015

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