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Gastrointestinal Emergencies

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 What Are the “Rules of the Road” When Approaching Patients with Acute Abdominal Pain? What Are Common Diagnostic Errors and Who Are High-Risk Patients?
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    Chapter 2 What Is the Accuracy of the Physical Exam in Intra-abdominal Emergencies? Does Administration of Pain Medication Alter the Accuracy of the Physical Examination?
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    Chapter 3 The Utility of Laboratory Data: What to Consider and How to Interpret in Common Abdominal Diseases
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    Chapter 4 What Imaging Strategies Are Effective for Rapid and Accurate Diagnosis of Abdominal Pain Etiologies?
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    Chapter 5 Evaluation of Acute Abdominal Pain with Computed Tomography
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    Chapter 6 What Is My Patient’s Risk of Cancer from Radiation Exposure with Computed Tomography of the Abdomen and Pelvis? What Do I Tell My Patient?
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    Chapter 7 Who Should Be Admitted? Who Can Be Discharged? What Should Be Included in the Discharge Planning?
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    Chapter 8 Consultant Corner: General Approach to Abdominal Pain
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    Chapter 9 How Can I Tell If My Patient Has a Gastrointestinal Bleed? Is It an Upper Gastrointestinal Bleed (UGIB) or Lower Gastrointestinal Bleed (LGIB)?
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    Chapter 10 What Is the Best Risk Stratification Tool for a Patient with a Suspected Upper GI Bleed?
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    Chapter 11 Diagnostic Testing for Patients with Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage
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    Chapter 12 Is NG Aspiration Sensitive and Specific to Detect Upper GI Bleeding?
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    Chapter 13 What Is the Optimal Timing of Endoscopy?
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    Chapter 14 What Medications Are Helpful in Treating a GIB?
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    Chapter 15 What Is the Optimal Resuscitation of the Patient with a Gastrointestinal Bleed?
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    Chapter 16 Reversing Coagulopathy in Patients with Suspected GI Bleed
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    Chapter 17 When to Suspect an Aortoenteric Fistulae
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    Chapter 18 End-Stage Liver Disease and Variceal Bleeding
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    Chapter 19 Consultant Corner: Gastrointestinal Bleeding
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    Chapter 20 What Clinical Factors Should Arouse Suspicion for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm?
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    Chapter 21 What Is the Ideal Imaging Strategy for Diagnosing AAA, Abdominal Aortic Dissection, and Aortic Rupture?
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    Chapter 22 Which Patients Can Be Treated Medically, and Who Needs Surgical Intervention?
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    Chapter 23 What Is the Role of Hypotensive Resuscitation/Damage Control Resuscitation in Ruptured AAAs?
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    Chapter 24 My Patient’s Aorta Was Repaired. What Complications Arise from AAA Repair? When Should I Be Concerned About Recurrence?
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    Chapter 25 The Asymptomatic AAA: When to Be Concerned and What to Tell Your Patient?
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    Chapter 26 Consultant Corner: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm and Aortic Dissection
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    Chapter 27 What Clinical Features Lead to the Diagnosis of Acute Mesenteric Ischemia?
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    Chapter 28 What Is the Most Sensitive and Specific Laboratory Test(s) for the Detection of Acute Mesenteric Ischemia? What Is the Utility of Lactate? Are There Other Laboratory Tests Which Are Helpful in Making the Diagnosis?
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    Chapter 29 What Is the Most Sensitive and Specific Imaging Study for the Detection of Acute Mesenteric Ischemia? Is MDCT the Gold Standard?
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    Chapter 30 What Is the Utility of Clinical Scoring Systems for the Diagnosis/Prognosis of Mesenteric Ischemia?
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    Chapter 31 Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia: What Clinical Features Lead to the Diagnosis of CMI? Can This Diagnosis Be Made in the Emergency Department? What Is the Appropriate Disposition?
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    Chapter 32 What Are the Goals of Resuscitation in the ED? What Intravenous Fluids Should Be Used? Are Vasopressors Beneficial or Harmful? Should Antibiotics Be Administered?
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    Chapter 33 Morbidity and Mortality of Acute Mesenteric Ischemia: How Can Emergency Medicine Clinicians Impact Outcomes?
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    Chapter 34 Consultant Corner: Acute Mesenteric Ischemia
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    Chapter 35 When Should a Non-gastrointestinal Cause of Nausea and Vomiting Be Considered?
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    Chapter 36 Customizing Your Antiemetic: What Should You Consider?
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    Chapter 37 What Is the Best Management of Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome and Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome?
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    Chapter 38 When Should QT Prolongation Be Considered in Antiemetic Use?
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    Chapter 39 Opioids in Gastroparesis: Is There a Better Way?
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    Chapter 40 Consultant Corner: Abdominal Pain and Vomiting
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    Chapter 41 Diagnosis: What Historical Features and Laboratory Test(s) Are the Most Helpful to Make the Diagnosis? Is There Really a Normal Lipase with Active Pancreatitis? What “Red Flags” Suggest a Complicated Course?
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    Chapter 42 Risk Stratification and Disposition: What Is the Usual Course of Acute Pancreatitis? Which Patients Require a Higher Level of Care and Which Patients May Be Appropriate to Discharge?
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    Chapter 43 How Should I Manage My in the Pancreatitis Patients Emergency Department? Who Needs Imaging? Antibiotics? Surgery? Interventional Radiology? ERCP?
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    Chapter 44 How Do I Evaluate a Patient for Chronic Pancreatitis in the Emergency Department? How Are These Patients Managed Acutely? What Therapies Exist for Long-Term Management of This Condition?
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    Chapter 45 Gallstone Pancreatitis: How Does Management Differ from Other Causes of Acute Pancreatitis?
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    Chapter 46 Consultant Corner: Pancreatitis
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    Chapter 47 Small Bowel Obstruction: When Is X-Ray Enough?
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    Chapter 48 What Is the Utility of Ultrasound for Small Bowel Obstruction?
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    Chapter 49 So I am Getting a CT for Small Bowel Obstruction, Do I Need Oral Contrast? IV Contrast?
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    Chapter 50 Does Everyone with a Small Bowel Obstruction Need a Nasogastric Tube? What Is the Safest Way to Place It?
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    Chapter 51 Atypical Obstructions: What Do Emergency Providers Need to Know About Incarcerated and Strangulated Hernia, Closed Loop Obstruction, Volvulus, and Internal Hernia? What Is the Prognostic Value of a Lactate?
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    Chapter 52 Large Bowel Obstruction, Ogilvie Syndrome, and Stercoral Colitis: When Is Dilatation Pathologic? How Are These Conditions Managed?
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    Chapter 53 Who Gets Constipation? What Are the Causes? What Is an Evidence-Based Approach Management?
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    Chapter 54 Consultant Corner: Bowel Obstruction
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    Chapter 55 What Is the Utility of the Murphy’s Sign and Does It Change with Pain Medication?
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    Chapter 56 Is a Negative CT Good Enough to Rule Out Acute Cholecystitis?
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    Chapter 57 When Is Acute Intervention (Interventional Radiology/Surgery) Necessary for Acute Cholecystitis? Can Acute Cholecystitis Be Managed at Home with Oral Antibiotics?
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    Chapter 58 Is There a Role for HIDA Scan in the Emergency Setting?
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    Chapter 59 What Is Acalculous Cholecystitis? What Are Its Implications? How Is It Managed?
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    Chapter 60 What Is the Optimal Management for Biliary Colic and Who Requires Admission?
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    Chapter 61 What Is Gallstone Ileus and What Are Its Implications?
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    Chapter 62 What Is Emphysematous Cholecystitis Diagnosis and Management?
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    Chapter 63 Acute Cholecystitis in the Elderly Patient: How Is It Different?
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    Chapter 64 Consultant Corner: Gallbladder Disease
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    Chapter 65 How Do I Resuscitate the Crashing Cirrhotic Patient?
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    Chapter 66 How Do I Diagnose and Manage Acute Cholangitis?
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    Chapter 67 How Do I Diagnose and Manage Acute Hepatic Encephalopathy?
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    Chapter 68 What Do I Need to Know About Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis and Primary Biliary Cirrhosis?
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    Chapter 69 When Does Transaminitis Become Acute Hepatic Failure? What Is the Management of Transaminitis and Acute Hepatic Failure?
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    Chapter 70 How Should I Image the Patient with Suspected Liver or Biliary Disease?
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    Chapter 71 What About Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Right Upper Quadrant Pain? What Do I Need to Know About Image Interpretation?
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    Chapter 72 Who Needs a Paracentesis? How Do I Optimize Safety? How Do I Interpret the Results?
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    Chapter 73 What Medications Commonly Given in the Acute Care Setting Are Safe in Liver Failure and Cirrhosis? In What Doses?
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    Chapter 74 Consultant Corner: Hepatology
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    Chapter 75 What Patients Will Have an “Atypical” Presentation for Appendicitis? What Are Those Presentations?
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    Chapter 76 Radiation: When Can Patients Be Spared CT? Alvarado Score? Ultrasound?
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    Chapter 77 MRI for Appendicitis: Gold Standard or Emerging Technology with Limited Role?
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    Chapter 78 What About Appendicitis and Pregnancy? Is There a Systematic Approach to Save Time, Reduce Radiation, and Make Everyone Happy?
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    Chapter 79 What About Kids and Appendicitis? Small Adults or Different Approach?
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    Chapter 80 Is There a Role for Medical Management in Acute Appendicitis?
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    Chapter 81 Is Surgery for Appendicitis Urgent or Emergent?
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    Chapter 82 Does Ruptured Appendicitis with Abscess Warrant Urgent Operative Intervention?
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    Chapter 83 Consultant Corner: Appendicitis
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    Chapter 84 Diagnosing Diverticulitis: Balancing Cost, Efficiency, and Safety. Can I Make This Diagnosis by Clinical Assessment Alone? What Is the Role of Imaging?
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    Chapter 85 Medical Management: How Do I Optimize My Treatment Regimen for Uncomplicated Diverticulitis? Am I Ready to Ditch Antibiotics?
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    Chapter 86 Consultation and Disposition of Acute Diverticulitis: Which Patients with Acute Diverticulitis Require Admission or Surgical Consultation?
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    Chapter 87 Who Can Safely Be Discharged Home with Diverticulitis? What Discharge Instructions Do I Give Patients with Diverticulitis?
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    Chapter 88 Consultant Corner: Diverticulitis
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    Chapter 89 Who Needs Imaging and What Modality?
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    Chapter 90 What Are the Complications of Home IBD Medications?
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    Chapter 91 What Is the Utility of ESR and CRP in the Evaluation of Acute IBD Presentations?
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    Chapter 92 IBD: Who Can Go Home? Who Should Be Admitted?
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    Chapter 93 Steroids? Antibiotics? Biologics? Immunomodulators? What Are the Optimal Discharge Medications for an IBD Flare?
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    Chapter 94 When Should I Suspect Undiagnosed Inflammatory Bowel Disease in the Acute Care Setting? How Should I Manage a Suspected New Diagnosis of Inflammatory Bowel Disease?
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    Chapter 95 Consultant Corner: Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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    Chapter 96 How Do I Approach the Patient with Diarrhea? Key History, Physical Examination, and Diagnostic Considerations
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    Chapter 97 Antibiotic Stewardship in the Patient with Diarrhea: Who Needs Antibiotics? And Which Antibiotics Do I Prescribe?
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    Chapter 98 What Discharge Instructions Should I Give? Oral Rehydration, Zinc Supplementation, Diet, Probiotics, and Antimotility Medications
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    Chapter 99 Traveler’s Diarrhea
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    Chapter 100 Chronic Diarrhea
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    Chapter 101 Clostridium Difficile
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    Chapter 102 Diarrhea and AIDS
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    Chapter 103 Consultant Corner: Diarrhea
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    Chapter 104 What Are the Chances of Developing a Non-obstetric Abdominal Emergency During Pregnancy? What Risks Do Abdominal Emergencies Pose to the Developing Pregnancy?
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    Chapter 105 What Are the Risks of Ionizing Radiation to a Developing Fetus?
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    Chapter 106 What Are the Risks of Doppler Ultrasound in Pregnancy?
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    Chapter 107 What Are the Implications of Abdominal Pain in Preeclampsia and HELLP Syndrome?
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    Chapter 108 What Is Acute Fatty Liver of Pregnancy?
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    Chapter 109 What Are the Best Management Strategies for Hyperemesis Gravidarum?
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    Chapter 110 Consultant Corner: Abdominal Pain and the Pregnant Patient
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    Chapter 111 An Introduction: Is My Patient Immunocompromised? How Do I Interpret History and Physical Examination Findings in the Immunocompromised Patient? What Does the Work-Up Look Like for an Immunocompromised Patient? What Are the Unique Risks and Potential Pitfalls?
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    Chapter 112 Who Should I Image and When? CT Negative: Now What?
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    Chapter 113 Who Should Be Admitted? Who Can Be Discharged Safely and with What Instructions?
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    Chapter 114 Introduction to the Transplant Patient
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    Chapter 115 What Are the Unique Considerations of Liver Transplant Patients with Abdominal Pain?
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    Chapter 116 What Are the Unique Considerations in Renal Transplant Patients with Abdominal Pain?
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    Chapter 117 What Clinicians Should Consider When Evaluating the Cancer Patient with Abdominal Pain?
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    Chapter 118 Can I Do a Rectal Exam in a Neutropenic Patient?
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    Chapter 119 Consultant Corner: Abdominal Pain and the Immunocompromised Patient
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    Chapter 120 What Are the Different Types of Bariatric Surgeries/Procedures and the Unique, Clinically Relevant Features of Each?
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    Chapter 121 Imaging: What Are the Evidence-Based Strategies for Imaging the Bariatric Patient?
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    Chapter 122 Anastomotic Leak, Sepsis, Pulmonary Embolism, and Early Hemorrhage: How Do I Diagnose and Manage Early Complications of Bariatric Surgeries and Procedures?
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    Chapter 123 Bowel Obstructions in Bariatric Surgery Patients: How Are They Managed Differently from Other Surgical Patients?
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    Chapter 124 Gastrointestinal Bleeding in the Bariatric Patient: What Else Should I Consider?
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    Chapter 125 What Is Dumping Syndrome? How Do I Diagnose and Treat Dumping Syndrome?
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    Chapter 126 What Are the Complications of Gastric Banding? How Do I Diagnose and Treat Them in the Emergency Department?
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    Chapter 127 FAQs: Rapid Fire Answers to Pesky Clinical Questions – NGTs? Thiamine? PO Contrast? Nonsurgical Complications?
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    Chapter 128 Consultant Corner: Abdominal Pain in the Bariatric Patient
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    Chapter 129 How Do I Approach Pain or Bleeding After Upper Endoscopy?
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    Chapter 130 How Do I Approach Pain or Bleeding After Colonoscopy?
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    Chapter 131 How Do I Approach Pain After ERCP?
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    Chapter 132 How Do I Approach Pain After Liver Biopsy?
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    Chapter 133 How Do I Approach the Peritoneal Dialysis Patient with Pain/Fever?
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    Chapter 134 G-Tube Troubleshooting: When Is It Unsafe to Replace? What Is the Best Way to Verify Placement? What Is the Best Approach to Bleeding/Pain/Drainage/Blockage?
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    Chapter 135 Consultant Corner: Abdominal Pain and the Post-procedure Patient
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    Chapter 136 What Causes of Chronic Abdominal Pain, Both Common and Uncommon, Should Be Considered and Investigated by the Emergency Medicine Provider?
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    Chapter 137 What “Red Flags” Should the Emergency Clinician Be Aware of When Evaluating the Patient with Chronic Abdominal Pain?
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    Chapter 138 What Is the Role of Imaging and Reimaging in Patients with Chronic Abdominal Pain?
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    Chapter 139 Is There Any Benefit to Obtaining a Pelvic Ultrasound After a Negative CT of the Abdomen/Pelvis in a Woman with Chronic Abdominal Pain?
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    Chapter 140 Is Laboratory Data Helpful in the Workup of Chronic Abdominal Pain?
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    Chapter 141 Non-opioid Management of Chronic Abdominal Pain
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    Chapter 142 What Discharge Instructions and Follow-Up Planning Should Patients with Chronic Abdominal Pain Be Given?
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    Chapter 143 Consultant Corner: Chronic Abdominal Pain
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Title
Gastrointestinal Emergencies
Published by
Springer International Publishing, December 2018
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-98343-1
ISBNs
978-3-31-998342-4, 978-3-31-998343-1
Editors

Graham, Autumn, Carlberg, David J.

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Student > Doctoral Student 2 25%
Student > Bachelor 1 13%
Student > Postgraduate 1 13%
Researcher 1 13%
Unknown 3 38%
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Medicine and Dentistry 4 50%
Neuroscience 1 13%
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