Craig Alan Evans
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I think prehospital education does a horrible job of teaching a thorough abdominal assessment. Keeping this discussion outside of trauma and obstetrics as I feel we do pretty well in those areas; if you were to concentrate on only conditions which would require immediate surgical intervention or are life threatening what do you think we should be teaching paramedics to be looking for?
I propose:
Cholecystitis
Ascending Cholangitis
Abdominal Aortic Aneurism
Appendicitis
Necrotic Bowel Syndrome
Which means we need to include Murphy's Sign, McBurney's Point, and
Obturator sign to our assessment skills and teach the symptoms and signs of Charcot's triad and Reynold's pentad to name a few.
Thoughts?
I propose:
Cholecystitis
Ascending Cholangitis
Abdominal Aortic Aneurism
Appendicitis
Necrotic Bowel Syndrome
Which means we need to include Murphy's Sign, McBurney's Point, and
Obturator sign to our assessment skills and teach the symptoms and signs of Charcot's triad and Reynold's pentad to name a few.
Thoughts?