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Current Research in Emergency Medicine
[ ISSN : 2832-5699 ]

Diagnosis And Treatment of Abdominal Pain in the Emergency Room

Mini Review
Volume 5 - Issue 1 | Article DOI : 10.54026/CREM/1062

Hookman P*

Lakeridge Blvd Boca Raton FL, USA.

Corresponding Authors

Hookman P, Lakeridge Blvd Boca Raton FL, USA

Keywords

Abdominal Pain; Differential Diagnosis; Emergency Medicine; Diagnostic Imaging; Surgical Emergencies

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Received : March 26, 2026
Published : April 07, 2026

Abstract

Abdominal pain is among the most frequent presenting complaints in emergency medicine, accounting for approximately 5-10% of all ED visits annually in the United States. It represents one of the broadest diagnostic challenges a clinician can face: the same symptom may arise from a self-limiting gastrointestinal illness or from a life-threatening surgical emergency. The ability to distinguish the benign from the catastrophic - rapidly and systematically- is a core competency of emergency medicine [1].