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 Emergencies3. Evidence-Based Medicine Approach to Abdominal Pain4. Approach to Patients with Epigastric Pain5. Evaluating the Patient with Right Upper Quadrant Abdominal Pain6. Lower Abdominal Pain7. Anorectal Complaints in the Emergency Department8. The Vomiting Patient: Small Bowel Obstruction, Cyclic Vomiting, and Gastroparesis9. Diarrhea: Initial Evaluation and Treatment in the Emergency Department10. Gastrointestinal Bleeding11. Abdominal Vascular Catastrophes12. Pediatric Abdominal Pain: An Emergency Medicine Perspective13. Abdominal Pain in the Geriatric Patient14. Abdominal Pain in the Immunocompromised Patient-Human ImmunodeficiencyVirus, Transplant, Cancer15. Acute Abdominal Pain in the Bariatric Surgery Patient16. Abdominal Pain Mimics17. Index