The child with abdominal pain

see also paediatric emergency medicine, the adult patient with acute abdominal pain

  • do not forget to consider an occult ingested button battery as a cause of gastro-like illness +/- haematemesis +/- melaena +/- fevers - if suspected do a CXR/AXR as unrecognised ingestions have caused a number of children to die in Australia recently 1)