ACUTE AORTIC PATHOLOGY
CASE SCENARIO Print Section Listen A 65-year-old male with a past medical history notable for hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and a 40 pack-year smoking history complicated by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)…
SPLENIC LESIONS
CASE SCENARIO Print Section Listen Scenario 1 A 56-year-old man with a past medical history significant for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation presents to the emergency department complaining of 2 days of…
ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS
CASE SCENARIOS Print Section Listen Case 1 A 45-year-old obese woman presents to the emergency department with a 1-day history of constant right-sided abdominal pain. She has had similar episodes…
BILIARY OBSTRUCTION
CASE SCENARIO Print Section Listen A 62-year-old man presents to the emergency room with a complaint of dull epigastric pain. The pain has been present for the past 2 months,…
GASTRIC OUTLET OBSTRUCTION
CASE SCENARIO Print Section Listen A 60-year-old woman presents with a several-week history of worsening non-bilious emesis and epigastric abdominal pain. She also reports several months of early satiety and…
MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA
CASE SCENARIO Print Section Listen A 59-year-old woman with a past medical history of smoking, hypertension, and claudication was transferred from an outside hospital for further management of acute, diffuse…
PANCREATITIS
CASE SCENARIO Print Section Listen A 54-year-old man with no past medical history presents to the emergency department with 24 hours of abdominal pain. The pain started the day prior…
SMALL-BOWEL OBSTRUCTION
CASE SCENARIO Print Section Listen A 62-year-old woman with worsening mid-abdominal pain, bloating, obstipation, nausea, and bilious vomiting presents to the emergency department. Her past surgical history is significant for…
