[Does early analgesia interfere with diagnostic process in acute abdominal pain syndrome?].
Early pain management with opioid by patients admitted for abdominal pain is widely contested. Emergency physicians are feared to interfere with physical examination and the ability to make a correct diagnosis. The present review tends to show that opioids are safe in this context. The authors consider that early provision of pain management, even with opioids, should be effective.
D'Ambrogio
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Service de chirurgie viscérale, Centre interdisciplinaire des urgences, BH06, CHUV, Lausanne. Aris.Dambrogio@chuv.ch
Peloponissios
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Blanc
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Schreyer
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D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D000700:Analgesics / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D004635:Emergency Medicine; D006801:Humans; D010808:Physical Examination
D000700:Analgesics