ABDOMEN.

[Acute abdomen].

Acute Abdomen

The term 'acute abdomen' represents a rapid onset of severe symptoms that may indicate lifethreatening intra-abdominal pathology. Pain is usually a feature but is not always the case. A pain-free acute abdomen is more likely in the elderly, in children and in the third trimester of pregnancy. [1] The differential diagnosis is extremely wide and definitive diagnosis is often difficult, particula...

Acute Abdomen

The term 'acute abdomen' represents a rapid onset of severe symptoms that may indicate life-threatening intra-abdominal pathology. Pain is usually a feature but is not always the case. A pain-free acute abdomen is more likely in the elderly, in children and in the third trimester of pregnancy. [1] The differential diagnosis is extremely wide and definitive diagnosis is often difficult, particul...

OPEN MANAGEMENT OF THE SEPTIC ABDOMEN

Severe intraabdominal infection associated with abdominal wall, intraperitoneal and remote organ complications, still carries an unacceptably high morality rate. In addition to the fundamental principle of eradication of the source of infection, various treatment modalities have been suggested to improve the commonly grave outcome. Amongst these, open management (OM) of the septic abdomen,...

Indications for Opening Abdomen

I PRoPose to consider this subject especially from the ,point of view of country practice. It is one of those questions which is most prominent at the present time, for the all-sufficient reason that upon it turns in many cases the life or death of the patient. If any one should ask why such cases come now so frequently into question, I have no doubt as to the answer-it is simply this, that in ...