Bedside Point-of-Care Ultrasound of an Adult with Diffuse Intermittent Abdominal Pain

Nwanaji-Enwerem, J.C.; Landry, A.

Acute Medicine 19(1): 49-51

2020


ISSN/ISBN: 1747-4892
PMID: 32226958
Document Number: 18104
A 29-year-old woman with a history of obesity status post Roux-en-Y gastric bypass greater than five years prior presented to the emergency department with four hours of sudden-onset stabbing left-sided abdominal pain associated with nausea and non-bloody emesis. She denied melaena and hematochezia, but did report two weeks of diarrhoea that was unchanged with this new onset abdominal pain.

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Bedside Point-of-Care Ultrasound of an Adult with Diffuse Intermittent Abdominal Pain