OPQRST - Which One?
Did your pain start suddenly or gradually get worse and worse?
What is Onset?
The first part of the small intestine.
Duodenum
Solid Organ only women have.
What is the Ovaries?
Female - I might be on the left or right side.
What are the ovaries?
Sudden parietal pain should alert you to a rupture; pain will be in the RLQ or LLQ, depending on which fallopian tube is affected, rupture may produce referred pain to the same-side shoulder.
Ectopic pregnancy
What makes your pain better or worse?
What is Provokes or Palliates?
The part of the small intestine between the duodenum and ileum.
Jejunum
Finger-shaped pouch that projects from your colon on the lower right side of your abdomen
Appendix
The duct by which urine passes from the kidney to the bladder
Ureter
Intermittent parietal pain as the stone moves/ureter spasm; pain the back, flank area, and eventually RLQ or LLQ
Kidney Stone
What were you doing when the pain started?
What is Onset?
How many parts to the physicians divide the abdomen?
9
Stores bile produced by the liver and sits under the liver
What is the gallbladder?
Fist-sized organ in the upper left side of your abdomen, next to your stomach and behind your left ribs.
Spleen
Visceral pain originating in the midline of the abdomen; depending on the position of the appendix, the pain then refers to the RUQ, RLQ, LLQ and even the epigastric region in some patients
Appendicitis
On a scale of no pain to a shark bit your leg off?
An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg implants and grows outside the main cavity of the uterus. An ectopic pregnancy most often occurs in...
Cholecystitis is the inflammation of the...
Gallbladder
Food enters this organ through the lower esophageal sphincter.
What is the stomach?
Visceral pain typically; sudden parietal pain means impending rupture; originates in the midline, epigastric, lower back and groin areas
Abdominal aortic aneurysm
Point to where it hurts the most. Where does your pain go from there?
What is Radiates?
Part of the small intestine was frequently found to be void of food following death
Jejunum
The area where the inferior vena cava, abdominal aorta, lower portion of the thoracic spine, the kidneys (in the right and left upper quadrants, just under the diaphragm), and the lumbar spine.
What is the Retroperitoneal Space?
I'm very vascular and can bleed a lot.
What is the liver, pancreas, and spleen?
Parietal LUQ pain that refers to the left shoulder (Kehr sign)
Splenic Rupture