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Chapter 33 - What Can’t Go Down, Must Come Up

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2021

By
Emily Cadman  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 previously fit and well 15-year-old boy (weight 65 kg) presented at 15:30 to the A&E in a district general hospital (DGH), with no paediatric surgical service, with abdominal pain and vomiting. The pain and vomiting started the previous night, and the vomitus had ‘turned green’ that morning. He had no appetite and was struggling to tolerate plain water.

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Cases in Paediatric Critical Care Transfer and Retrieval Medicine , pp. 185 - 190
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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