Bedside Point-of-Care Ultrasound of an Adult with Diffuse Intermittent Abdominal Pain

Acute Med. 2020;19(1):49-51.

Abstract

A 29-year-old woman with a history of obesity status post Roux-en-Y gastric bypass greater than five years prior presented to the emergency department with four hours of sudden-onset stabbing left-sided abdominal pain associated with nausea and non-bloody emesis. She denied melaena and hematochezia, but did report two weeks of diarrhoea that was unchanged with this new onset abdominal pain.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Abdominal Pain / diagnostic imaging*
  • Adult
  • Female
  • Gastric Bypass
  • Humans
  • Point-of-Care Systems*
  • Ultrasonography*