Acute abdominal pain location critical pathways
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Approach
| abdominal pain critical pathways |
| Hemodynamically stable | Yes | No |
| Duration of abdominal pain | Acute | Chronic |
| Acute abdomen | Likely | Unlikely |
| Location of abdominal pain | diffuse | ||
| right upper | epigastric | left upper | |
| right flank | periumbilical | left flank | |
| right lower | hypogastric | left lower | |