{"title":"The acute abdomen","authors":"Ian Bailey, Cameron Biswas","doi":"10.1016/j.mpmed.2024.11.005","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Acute physicians need to know how to start treatment and prioritize patients with an acute abdomen for investigation and treatment. However, delays in starting appropriate treatment and investigation remain common. This article gives an overview for non-surgical clinicians on how to assess and initiate management in these patients.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":74157,"journal":{"name":"Medicine (Abingdon, England : UK ed.)","volume":"53 2","pages":"Pages 88-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Medicine (Abingdon, England : UK ed.)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1357303924002810","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Acute physicians need to know how to start treatment and prioritize patients with an acute abdomen for investigation and treatment. However, delays in starting appropriate treatment and investigation remain common. This article gives an overview for non-surgical clinicians on how to assess and initiate management in these patients.