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 | |