Like Sisyphus, you may feel that you are continually pushing a diagnostic boulder up a mountain only to watch it roll back down. Certainly, some diagnoses offer less of an incline to overcome; however, others, like Chronic Recurrent Abdominal Pain (CRAP),…
We all know that abdominal pain is a common complaint that in the ED. The differential is vast and includes some terrible conditions (ex, Intussusception, Necrotizing Enterocolitis, Malrotation) as well as rather common…
We all care for many children who present with fever, nausea, and vomiting. Naturally, one of our first goals is to consider severe and life-threatening conditions and, fortunately, many times these are apparent on clinical exam. Unfortunately, certain patient populations,…
