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  • Emergency Medicine
  • Clinical Diagnostics

Background:

  • Acute abdominal pain is a common emergency room presentation.
  • Predicting patient outcomes is crucial for timely intervention.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To correlate objective initial evaluation data with patient outcomes in acute abdominal pain cases.
  • Identify key predictors of severe outcomes such as hospitalization, surgery, or death.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective case-control study.
  • Analysis of 330 patient medical records from an emergency room in 2016.
  • Statistical analysis to identify independent predictors of adverse outcomes.

Main Results:

  • Male gender, age ≥50, temperature >37.3ºC, anemia, leukocytosis >10,000/mm3, neutrophil count >7,700/mm3, lymphocyte count <2,000/mm3, and hyperamylasemia were associated with worse outcomes.
  • 71.2% of patients were discharged, while 28.8% required hospitalization, surgery, or died.

Conclusions:

  • The presence of three or more identified variables significantly increases the likelihood of surgery or death.
  • The risk of mortality is directly proportional to the number of adverse variables present.