Recognising and Responding to Life Threatening Emergencies

Acute Abdominal Pain

Latest Course update : January 2019

Acute abdominal pain is a common cause of serious illness. As the population ages, emergency care will be increasingly confronted with elderly patients presenting with acute abdominal pain. It is vital to have a sound approach to the assessment, investigation and management of these patients as presentations with serious pathology can be subtle and easily missed in this population. Important considerations when in assessing the elderly patient with abdominal pain include the high incidence of serious disease in this population and an appreciation that “atypical” presentations for serious and life threatening conditions are “typical” in this patient group.

In this topic we examine the red flags for serious illness to the elderly patient with acute abdominal pain. In the case simulation we explore some of the life threatening conditions that may present in this group, outline the approach for nursing assessment and consider the role of investigations to assist identifying or ruling out serious disease.

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