Abdominal Key

CASE SCENARIO Print Section Listen A 19-year-old helmeted motorcyclist is brought to the emergency department by ambulance after a crash at approximately 55 miles per hour. He is combative, pale,…

CASE SCENARIO Print Section Listen A 22-year-old man was brought to the emergency department (ED) after a motor vehicle accident. The patient was entrapped and restrained in the passenger seat…

CASE SCENARIO Print Section Listen A 22-year-old man presents to the emergency room after being involved in a motor vehicle accident in which his car was struck from the side….

CASE SCENARIO Print Section Listen A 45-year-old man with no significant past medical history was a restrained driver in a motor vehicle collision. Paramedics report significant damage to the vehicle,…

CASE SCENARIO Print Section Listen A 47-year-old woman is the restrained driver in a high-speed motor vehicle crash. She has a prolonged extrication time and is brought to the trauma…

CASE SCENARIO Print Section Listen A 45-year-old man with a past medical history of hypertension presents to the emergency room with a 2-day history of rectal fullness and perirectal pain….

CASE SCENARIO Print Section Listen A 53-year-old obese man presents to the emergency department complaining of one day of progressive pain and swelling of his scrotum, with a rash over…

CASE SCENARIO Print Section Listen A 61-year-old woman with a history of Roux-en-y gastric bypass for morbid obesity presents with dysphagia and vomiting. She undergoes esophagogastroscopy at an outside institution…

CASE SCENARIO Print Section Listen A 22-year-old man is brought to the emergency department (ED) after an altercation in which he was stabbed in the left chest. On arrival he…

PARENCHYMAL LESIONS OF THE LIVER Print Section Listen Case Scenario A 36-year-old woman presents to the emergency room with hypotension, severe right upper quadrant (RUQ) abdominal pain, and one episode…