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Chapter 32 - Bilious Vomiting and Distended Abdomen?

Let’s Find a Surgeon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2021

By
Xabier Freire-Gomez  and
Alison Pienaar
Edited by
Shelley Riphagen  and
Sam Fosker
Shelley Riphagen
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London and South Thames Retrieval Service
Sam Fosker
Affiliation:
Evelina Children’s Hospital, London
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Summary

A 14-day-old, 4.3 kg term baby presented to his local A&E with an 18-hour history of bilious vomiting and being unsettled. There had been no urine output or bowel motion in the past 8 hours. He was born at term via spontaneous vaginal delivery, with normal antenatal scans, and was discharged home following birth with on demand breastfeeding and no risk factors for sepsis. Further medical history was limited due to language differences with parents who spoke limited English.

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Cases in Paediatric Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Medicine , pp. 178 - 184
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Attias, O, Bar-Joseph, G. Abdominal compartment syndrome in children. In: Wheeler, D., Wong, H., Shanley, T. (eds) Pediatric Critical Care Medicine.: London: Springer, 2014:39–55. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-6416-6_4.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Beck, R, Halberthal, M, Zonis, Z, et al. Abdominal compartment syndrome in children. Pediatr CritCare Med, 2001;2(1):51–6, doi:10.1097/00130478-200101000-00011.Google Scholar
Lee, HC, Pickard, SS, Sridhar, S, Dutta, S. Intestinal malrotation and catastrophic volvulus in infancy. J Emerg Med 2012; 43(1), e49–e51, doi:10.1016/j.jemermed.2011.06.135.Google Scholar

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