Acute abdomen

This course will be taken offline on 20 December 2024. If you are currently working through the course, please ensure you have completed it before this date. 

Following a review of our eLearning provision in line with the launch of Curriculum 2024, we are planning to develop new resources to support Special Interest Training. Whilst the existing courses remain online, please be aware that the accuracy of this content cannot be guaranteed. 

Further announcements will be added here over the coming months. 

Welcome to this Special Interest Training course on Acute abdomen.

When you have completed this course, you will be able to:

• be able to understand and interpret important points from a detailed history for women presenting with acute abdomen
• arrange appropriate investigations to form a working diagnosis with a short list of differential diagnosis
• understand the importance of adopting a multidisciplinary approach and the need for patient-centered care when managing women with acute abdomen
• appreciate that sometimes patients presenting with an acute abdomen may not have a straightforward and obvious diagnosis. The aim should be to investigate and treat the patient as a whole. Good communication between professionals is the key to avoiding any problems should the patient need to be transferred to another specialty.