Paediatric emergencies: non-traumatic abdominal emergencies.

摘要: Presentation with acute abdominal pain or symptopathology is a very common cause of presentation children to hospital. The causes are dependent in part on the age child, presence previous surgery, and can be divided into those that relate congenital abnormalities at whatever they present, acquired disease infection. Children, particularly young often poor historians, therefore clinical examination laboratory investigations important helping come diagnosis. Primary imaging emergencies childhood radiograph abdomen, followed by ultrasound. Further depends results these studies. An ordered review abdomen if salient features X-ray not missed. Practitioners should competent ultrasound know where seek disease, as different from obtained many instances adults. Familiarity likely important. three commonest are, infants, intussusception, appendicitis mesenteric adenitis. In older children, inflammatory bowel ovarian pathology also included. This article details approach some conditions.