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Article: Should Narcotics Be Given to Patients with Abdominal Pain?(Report)
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- Practical Summaries in Acute Care
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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Should Narcotics Be Given to Patients with Abdominal Pain?
Author: Michael C. Bond, MD, Clinical Instructor, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore
Peer Reviewer: John Santamaria, MD, FAAP, FACEP, Affiliate Professor of Pediatrics, University of South Florida School of Medicine, Tampa, Florida
Introduction
One of the more contested areas between emergency medicine physicians and surgeons is the use of opioids in the treatment of abdominal pain. The belief that narcotics should be withheld was first published widely in 1921 with Sir Zachary Cope's book, Early Diagnosis of Abdominal Pain. Dr. Cope's original recommendation ...