06 / General Surgery · clerkship
Vomiting and distension
- ED
- Consult
- Investigations
- OR
- Ward
- Debrief
Emergency Department
The abdomen is distended and tympanic with high-pitched, tinkling bowel sounds. An old midline scar runs below the umbilicus. No hernias palpable.
Colicky pain, bilious vomiting, distension, absolute constipation, and a previous laparotomy, what leads the differential, and why?
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