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Do a full adult abdominal examination with the following additional components.
General
- Dysmorphic features
- Colour (pallor, mottling)
- Alertness and interest in surroundings
- Nutritional status
Hydration status
- Capillary refill
- Heart rate
- Mucous membranes
- Skin turgor
- Wet nappies (depending on age)
Points
- Look for Grey-Turner’s and Cullen’s signs
- Liver can be up to 2cm below costal margin in children
- Faecal loading may be felt in umbilical region and LIF
To complete
- Observations
- Growth charts
Learn presentations of neonatal gastrointestinal diseases
Midgut malrotation
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Duodenal atresia
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Galactosaemia
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Pyloric stenosis
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Hirschsprung’s disease
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Necrotising enterocolitis
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Tracheoesophageal fistula
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