%0 Journal Article
%T Acute mesenteric ischaemia: A case of expedited diagnosis and management using point-of-care ultrasound
%A Dagmawi Werku
%A Grace Wanjiku
%A Jessica Schmidt
%A Tigist Zewdu
%J Archive of "African Journal of Emergency Medicine".
%D 2018
%R 10.1016/j.afjem.2018.08.002
%X The term acute abdomen refers to a clinical syndrome of sudden onset, severe abdominal pain. The differential diagnosis for this presentation is broad, but most cases require emergent medical or surgical management. Especially in cases of ischaemic bowel, time to diagnosis can mean the difference between survival and death. As a result, mortality remains high in resource-limited settings
%K Point-of-care
%K Ultrasound
%K Acute abdomen
%K Mesenteric ischaemia
%K Bowel necrosis
%K Resource-limited
%K Thromboembolism
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6277511/