Emergencies: Acute Abdominal Pain — Internal Medicine and General Surgery

Emergency Room · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

Manual avanzado para el abordaje sistemático, diferenciación fisiopatológica, algoritmos diagnósticos multimodales y criterios de intervención quirúrgica urgente en el paciente con dolor abdominal agudo.

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 Exploration 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 Handle 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