Abdominal CT findings can significantly change patient management in the emergency department, especially when minutes matter.
In this lecture, Drs. Robert Tubbs and Adam Janicki review a practical emergency medicine approach to identifying high-risk abdominal CT findings, including abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture, mesenteric ischemia, pneumatosis intestinalis, Fournier’s gangrene, bowel obstruction, traumatic solid organ injury, perforated viscus, and other time-sensitive abdominal emergencies.
