
#327 Acute Pancreatitis
The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast
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Is There a Need for a Ct Scans?
An abdominal ultra sound can be a useful tool in the early sets, especially if the history of alcohol is not as clear as depicted here. If you already have a clinical diagnosis based on the symptoms and an lipas or amale's elevation, there is no need for a ct scan or cross sectional imaging. The only two things that could impact early management will be knowing the triglus ride and the calcium. In a case that these are induced by hyper chalcima or hypertriglis demia,. So that might be the two additional tests i order in regard to etiology.
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