Emergencies: Acute Abdominal Pain — Internal Medicine and General Surgery

Emergency · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

Advanced manual for the systematic approach, pathophysiological differentiation, multimodal diagnostic algorithms and criteria for urgent surgical intervention in patients with acute abdominal pain.

What it covers

1. Acute Abdominal Pain
2. Anatomy and Nociception of Abdominal Pain
3. · Physiology of Abdominal Nociception
4. · Embryological Mechanism and Referred Pain
5. · Clinically Relevant Referred Pain Pathways
6. Acute Abdomen: Pathogenic Classification
7. · The Five Acute Abdomen Syndromes
8. · Molecular Physiopathology of Peritonitis
9. Systematic Emergency History
10. · The ALICIA Method for Abdominal Pain
11. · Extra-abdominal Causes of Acute Abdominal Pain
12. Systematic Physical Examination and Eponymy
13. · The Golden Rule: Inspection, Auscultation, Percussion and Palpation
14. · Eponymy Semiology in Acute Abdomen
15. Differential Diagnosis by Anatomical Quadrants
16. · Mapping of Pathologies by Regions
17. Laboratory Tests and Advanced Biomarkers
18. · The Analytical Profile of the Acute Abdomen
19. Advanced Imaging Diagnosis in Emergencies
20. · Indications of the Different Image Modalities
21. · Simple Abdominal X-ray: Real Utility and Limitations
22. · Contrast Computed Tomography: Critical Imaging Patterns
23. Acute Surgical Abdomen vs. Doctor
24. · Key Criteria for Identifying an Acute Surgical Abdomen
25. · Tactical Decision Algorithm in Emergencies
26. Appendicitis and Acute Cholecystitis
27. · Acute Appendicitis: Pathophysiology by Phases
28. · Appendicitis Diagnostic Scales: Alvarado vs. AIR
29. · Acute Cholecystitis: TG18 Criteria (Tokyo Guidelines 2018)
30. · TG18 Severity Stratification for Acute Cholecystitis
31. Intestinal Obstruction and Hollow Viscera Perforation
32. · Intestinal Obstruction: Systemic and Local Physiopathology
33. · Closed Loop Obstruction: Maximum Urgency
34. · Hollow Viscera Piercing: The Perforative Abdomen
35. Acute Mesenteric Ischemia and Incipient/Ruptured Aneurysm
36. · Acute Mesenteric Ischemia (IMA): Vascular Pathophysiology
37. · Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)
38. Special Populations I: Geriatric and Immunocompromized
39. · The Acute Abdomen in the Geriatric Patient (65-70 years)
40. · The Immunocompromised Patient
41. Special Populations II: Pregnant Women and Pediatric Patients
42. · Acute Abdominal Pain in the Pregnant Patient
43. · Specific Pediatric Pathologies of the Acute Abdomen
44. Initial Support and Emergency Treatment Algorithm
45. · Hemodynamic Resuscitation Protocol for Sepsis/Abdominal Shock
46. · Early Analgesia: The End of a Clinical Myth
47. · Emergency Empirical Antibiotherapy Protocol
48. · Antiemetic Treatment and Prevention of Bronchoaspiration