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CanadiEM aims to improve emergency care in Canada by building an online community of practice for healthcare practitioners and providing them with high quality, freely available educational resources. The CanadiEM Podcast brings you cutting edge clinical topics on the National Rounds Series and delves into the struggles that doctors face on the Physicians as Humans Series.

Jun 15, 2016

This episode covers Chapter 27 of Rosen's Emergency Medicine.

Episode overview:

  1. List and explain 8 causes of life-threatening abdominal pain
  2. List 15 causes of extra-abdominopelvic abdominal pain

Wisecracks:

  1. Why is WBC of so little utility in abdominal pain?
  2. When is an abdominal x-ray useful in investigating abdominal pain?