Monday, January 28, 2013

Question 22

22.   Your patient is a 55 year old male who presents with abdominal pain nausea and vomiting.  His abdomen is distended.  You have ordered a CT scan that shows a volvulus.  Which of the following is the best management plan?

A.  Consult general surgery, the patient needs to go to the operating room.

B.  Order a barium enema

C.  Consult GI for a colonoscopy

D.  Insert a nasogastric tube and admit the patient to hospital to internal medicine.

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