Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kühn, Florian
• Klein, Matthias
• Laven, Henning
• Börner, Nikolaus
• Weinberger, Tobias
• Streitparth, Florian
• Werner, Jens
• Schiergens, Tobias S.

Titel

Specific Management of Patients with Acute Abdomen during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Surgical Perspective from Germany

Ist Teil von

• Visceral medicine, 2020-10, Vol.36 (5), p.417-420

Ort / Verlag

Basel, Switzerland: S. Karger GmbH

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• During the current COVID-19 pandemic, the triage, assessment, and management of patients presenting to the emergency department with critical conditions has become ­challenging. The clinical features of COVID-19 are heterogeneous and subtle in many cases. They may easily be overlooked in the case of other acute diseases. Gastrointestinal symptoms are common in patients with COVID-19 as SARS-CoV-2 is able to enter gastrointestinal epithelial cells. However, these complaints can also be caused by a COVID-19-independent concomitant abdominal pathology. Therefore, patients with acute abdominal pain and fever need to be assessed very thoroughly. Based on a clinical case, we present our approach of managing emergency patients with acute abdomen and concomitant suspicion of ­COVID-19.