Description
This presentation will discuss the approach to patients with gastrointestinal emergencies. We will review presenting symptoms and clinical signs and determine how to create a diagnostic and therapeutic plan.
Learning Objectives
- Learn how to assess the patient with acute gastrointestinal symptoms
- Learn how to stabilise the patient with acute gastrointestinal symptoms
- Learn how to select and perform diagnostics for acute gastrointestinal symptoms (blood work, ultrasound, radiographs)
- Learn how to treat specific gastrointestinal emergencies
- Learn how to determine which patients need surgical intervention