Episode 117.0 – Acute Cholecystitis
Core EM - Emergency Medicine Podcast
English - October 16, 2017 11:00 - 9 minutes - 7.29 MB - ★★★★★ - 128 ratingsMedicine Health & Fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Part I of II on gallbladder pathology starting with cholecystitis.
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Tags: Gallbladder, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, GI
Show Notes
Take Home Points
Acute cholecystitis is an inflammation of the gallbladder and is a clinical diagnosis. Imaging can be helpful but US and CT can both have false negatives.
Lab tests are insensitive and non-specific and, as such, they can neither rule in or rule out the diagnosis.
Treatment focuses on fluid resuscitation when indicated, supportive care, antibiotics and surgical consultation for cholecystectomy
Although uncommon, be aware that patients can develop gangrene, necrosis and perforation as well as frank sepsis and require aggressive resuscitation
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Core EM: Acute Cholecystitis
Oyama LC: Disorders of the liver and biliary tract, in Marx JA, Hockberger RS, Walls RM, et al (eds): Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, ed 8. St. Louis, Mosby, Inc., 2010, (Ch) 90: p 1186-1205.
Leschka S et al. Chapter 5.1: Acute abdominal pain: diagnostic strategies In: Schwartz DT: Emergency Radiology: C...
Part I of II on gallbladder pathology starting with cholecystitis.
https://media.blubrry.com/coreem/content.blubrry.com/coreem/Episode_117_0_Final_Cut.m4a
Download
Leave a Comment
Tags: Gallbladder, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, GI
Show Notes
Take Home Points
Acute cholecystitis is an inflammation of the gallbladder and is a clinical diagnosis. Imaging can be helpful but US and CT can both have false negatives.
Lab tests are insensitive and non-specific and, as such, they can neither rule in or rule out the diagnosis.
Treatment focuses on fluid resuscitation when indicated, supportive care, antibiotics and surgical consultation for cholecystectomy
Although uncommon, be aware that patients can develop gangrene, necrosis and perforation as well as frank sepsis and require aggressive resuscitation
Read More
Core EM: Acute Cholecystitis
Oyama LC: Disorders of the liver and biliary tract, in Marx JA, Hockberger RS, Walls RM, et al (eds): Rosen’s Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice, ed 8. St. Louis, Mosby, Inc., 2010, (Ch) 90: p 1186-1205.
Leschka S et al. Chapter 5.1: Acute abdominal pain: diagnostic strategies In: Schwartz DT: Emergency Radiology: Case Studies. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2008.
Menu Y, Vuillerme MP. Chapter 5.5: Non-traumatic Abdominal Emergencies: Imaging and Intervention in Acute Biliary Conditions In: Schwartz DT: Emergency Radiology: Case Studies. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2008.
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