Learn about how to acutely manage an upper GI bleed. Including risk assessment scoring systems (Rockalls and Glasgow-Blatchford) and surgical options at OGD.
Learn about the acute management of pancreatitis. Revise the modified Glasgow criteria and the biochemical abnormalities seen with severe case. Revisit causes and complications with useful memory aids.
Explore how to identify large bowel obstruction, learn about radiographic features, clinical presentation and the "drip and suck" initial treatment method. Discover surgical treatment options for LBO.
Explore an acute hernia presentation scenario. Learn the difference between inguinal versus femoral hernias, indirect versus direct and incarceration versus strangulation.
Explore the presenting features and management of acute cholecystitis. Revise how to manage a complications including a post-operative bile leak following cholecystectomy.
Explore clinical and radiological signs that indicate small bowel obstruction. Learn about stangulation, closed versus open loop obstruction and how to manage these.
Discover how to manage a post-operative patient with septic shock. Learn about acute management and investigation of a potential anastomotic leak and the risk factors causing it.
Discover the presenting features of ascending cholangitis including Charcot's triad, Courvoisier’s law and the biochemical pictures seen on blood tests. Learn about the acute surgical management in more detail.
Discover the numerous signs of appendicitis including McBurney's point, Rovsing's, Obturator and Psoas signs. Learn about the Alvarado score and how to apply this to help form a diagnosis of appendicitis.
Learn about SIRS, sepsis and septic shock. Find out about acute investigation/ management of intra-abdominal abscesses and where they are likely to occur.
