TY  - CHAP
M1  - Book, Section
TI  - Acute Abdominal Pain
A1  - Gordon, David C.
A2  - Sherman, Scott C.
A2  - Weber, Joseph M.
A2  - Schindlbeck, Michael A.
A2  - Rahul G., Patwari
PY  - 2014
T2  - Clinical Emergency Medicine
AB  - primary  survey  should  be  conducted  to  rapidly  screen  for  vascular  catastrophes,  abdominal  sepsis,  or  perforated  viscus.Appendicitis  should  always  be  on  the  differential  diagnosis  for  acute  abdominal  pain.Females  of  childbearing  age  with  abdominal  pain  are  presumed  to  have  an  ectopic  pregnancy  until  proven  otherwise.Older  and  immunocompromised  patients  may  have  an  atypical  presentation  of  disease.The  white  blood  cell  count  is  an  unreliable  predictor  of  disease  and  should  not  be  used  in  isolation  to  confirm  or  exclude  a  critical  diagnosis.  
SN  - 
PB  - McGraw-Hill Education
CY  - New York, NY
Y2  - 2024/04/19
UR  - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1101224668
ER  -