Abdominal pain

Chief Complaint Abdominal pain. History Patient is a 63-year-old right-hand white male who states that since April when he was in rehab for his left total knee replacement he has been having pain along his abdomen. He describes this as a band of numbness and dysesthesia. He outlines a strip involving T9-T11. He states this is mostly on the right. It does extend past the midline a little to the left, but is not significantly disturbing on the left. He gets spontaneous stabbing pain, tingling and

Abdominal pains may be caused by a number of serious underlying illnesses that can be diagnosed and treated. The occurrence of abdominal pains may also be caused by common illnesses such as indigestion, food allergies or even appendicitis (Golan & Tashjian, 2012) . Test done for the 13 year old female patient may be expected to reflect suspected illness. It would be important to first test for presence of any infectious agents that may have caused the abdominal pains. The infectious agents may

Recurrent Abdominal Pain, Pediatric Recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) is abdominal pain that comes and goes for more than 3 months without a known cause. RAP is common in children. It usually goes away with age. HOME CARE INSTRUCTIONS • Respond to your child in the same way each time he or she has abdominal pain. Have your child's teachers or caregivers do the same. • Try not to make lifestyle changes because of your child's abdominal pain. Have your child go to school or stay in school during

When evaluating abdominal pain, it remains imperative to obtain a complete history and review of systems from the patient. Obtaining any pertinent medical and surgical history, especially any history pertaining to the gastrointestinal or genitourinary tract, may provide insight into the patient’s current source of pain (Bickley, 2017). The nurse practitioner (NP) should also determine the onset of pain, whether it is acute or chronic, sudden or gradual, and the duration of pain (Bickley, 2017). Furthermore

Truncal neuralgia in diabetic patients: An ignored cause of abdominal pain Mohamed Lotfy, Hazem N. Ashri, Mostafa M. Khairy ABSTRACT Aims: We aim to study diabetic patients, with abdominal pain and neuralgia somewhere else in their bodies, and search for the relation between their abdominal pain and the lower intercostal neuralgia (T7–11 and subcostal). Methods: Between July 2016 and February 2017 this study was carried out in emergency department, Zagazig University Hospital. 23 patients were subjected

Discuss and differentiate between the causes of acute and chronic abdominal pain in a 20-year-old versus a 50-year-old male. Provide a rationale for including the appropriate differential diagnoses in each age group. Abdominal pain is commonly experienced by individuals along the age continuum and presents with symptoms that may be vague in nature. A thorough assessment of the patient including, a history of their symptoms and a physical exam are imperative for a timely diagnosis. The condition

IN AN UNCOMMON DISEASE; RIGHT UPPER QUADRANT PAIN • INTRODUCTION The presentation of abdominal pain is a common one, it is very non-specific and can be challenging to diagnose. When abdominal pain is localized to the right upper quadrant (RUQ), a broad range of differentials come to mind in relation to the underlying organs in that region. These differentials are narrowed down based on other parts of the history like the onset and duration of the pain, age, sex, associated symptoms like fever, nausea

Abdominal Pain During Pregnancy Abdominal pain is common in pregnancy. Most of the time, it does not cause harm. There are many causes of abdominal pain. Some causes are more serious than others and sometimes the cause is not known. Abdominal pain can be a sign that something is very wrong with the pregnancy or the pain may have nothing to do with the pregnancy. Always tell your health care provider if you have any abdominal pain. HOME CARE INSTRUCTIONS • Do not have sex or put anything in your

The possible causes of abdominal pain are multiple. It is important to differentiate because some causes can quickly become life threatening. Yet not only are there many, many causes of abdominal pain in the abdomen; in addition, there are abdominal problems that cause referred pain elsewhere in the body (commonly colic; and blood or infection irritating the diaphragm commonly causes shoulder pain), and there are problems elsewhere in the body that cause pain in the abdomen. While a 20-year-old

Chief Complaint: The patient complains of dysuria and some abdominal pain for the past 3 days History of Present Illness: N. T is a five year old uncircumcised male who was in his usual state of good health, now he presents with a complaint of dysuria and some abdominal pain for the past 3 days. The mother also reports high fever in the last 24 hours. It is crucial for NP to collect important subjective information following the seven attributes of symptoms to help guide the interview systematically