Emergency Surgery as a Team Sport

Authors

Alison Smith, LSU Health Sciences Center - New OrleansFollow
Donald Jenkins, University of Texas Health Sciences Center, San Antonio, TX

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-16-2022

Publication Title

The Acute Management of Surgical Disease

Abstract

A 68-year-old man with multiple co-morbid medical conditions presents to the Emergency Department complaining of abdominal pain for 1 day duration. A clerk immediately notifies the nurse of the patient’s arrival. The patient is triaged by a nurse who quickly realizes that the patient is in critical condition. The medical technician records the patient’s vital signs, medications, medical history, and contact information in an expeditious manner. She alerts the Emergency Medicine physician who promptly examines the patient, orders laboratory work, and other appropriate diagnostic tests. He then consults the Emergency General surgeon on call after discovering pneumoperitoneum on an X-ray.

First Page

459

Last Page

472

Publisher

Springer

Rights

© 2022 Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Recommended Citation

Smith, Alison and Jenkins, Donald, "Emergency Surgery as a Team Sport" (2022). School of Medicine Faculty Publications. 4148.
https://digitalscholar.lsuhsc.edu/som_facpubs/4148
10.1007/978-3-031-07881-1_33