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Managing acute abdominal pain in the emergency centre: Lessons from a patient's experience
Pain is one of the most common reasons people present to the emergency centre with 7-10% of presentations being due to acute abdominal pain. However, pain is also often neglected by clinicians in emergency centres. The well validated South African Triage Score (SATS) incorporates pain assessment in...
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African Federation for Emergency Medicine
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8593562/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34815928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2021.06.006 |
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author | Parker, Romy Bedwell, Gill J. Hodkinson, Peter Lourens, Andrit Setshedi, Mashiko |
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description | Pain is one of the most common reasons people present to the emergency centre with 7-10% of presentations being due to acute abdominal pain. However, pain is also often neglected by clinicians in emergency centres. The well validated South African Triage Score (SATS) incorporates pain assessment in the prioritising of patients with the aim of guiding clinicians. Based on the SATS, severe pain (a score of ≥8 out of 10) should prompt the clinician to initiate treatment within 10 min of presentation, as unmanaged pain has multiple negative consequences, including poor outcomes of the acute incident with delayed healing and increased risk of developing chronic pain. In this commentary, we present a patient's experience when attending an emergency centre for acute abdominal pain, describe relevant pain mechanisms and highlight the stages where clinical management could have been optimised. |
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spelling | pubmed-85935622021-11-22 Managing acute abdominal pain in the emergency centre: Lessons from a patient's experience Parker, Romy Bedwell, Gill J. Hodkinson, Peter Lourens, Andrit Setshedi, Mashiko Afr J Emerg Med Commentary Pain is one of the most common reasons people present to the emergency centre with 7-10% of presentations being due to acute abdominal pain. However, pain is also often neglected by clinicians in emergency centres. The well validated South African Triage Score (SATS) incorporates pain assessment in the prioritising of patients with the aim of guiding clinicians. Based on the SATS, severe pain (a score of ≥8 out of 10) should prompt the clinician to initiate treatment within 10 min of presentation, as unmanaged pain has multiple negative consequences, including poor outcomes of the acute incident with delayed healing and increased risk of developing chronic pain. In this commentary, we present a patient's experience when attending an emergency centre for acute abdominal pain, describe relevant pain mechanisms and highlight the stages where clinical management could have been optimised. African Federation for Emergency Medicine 2021-12 2021-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8593562/ /pubmed/34815928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2021.06.006 Text en © 2021 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Commentary Parker, Romy Bedwell, Gill J. Hodkinson, Peter Lourens, Andrit Setshedi, Mashiko Managing acute abdominal pain in the emergency centre: Lessons from a patient's experience |
title | Managing acute abdominal pain in the emergency centre: Lessons from a patient's experience |
title_full | Managing acute abdominal pain in the emergency centre: Lessons from a patient's experience |
title_fullStr | Managing acute abdominal pain in the emergency centre: Lessons from a patient's experience |
title_full_unstemmed | Managing acute abdominal pain in the emergency centre: Lessons from a patient's experience |
title_short | Managing acute abdominal pain in the emergency centre: Lessons from a patient's experience |
title_sort | managing acute abdominal pain in the emergency centre: lessons from a patient's experience |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8593562/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34815928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2021.06.006 |
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