Toddler/Child Surgical Emergencies

Learning Objectives:

• upon completion, participants will be able to list the most common abdominal surgical emergencies in the child
• describe the diagnostic imaging modalities, sensiitivies and associated risks for use in toddlers and children
• identify which aerodigestive tract foreign bodies post the most emergent risk to the child
• recognize the priorites in evaluation and resuscitation of the child with blunt abdominal injury
• demonstrate common patterns associated with non accidental trauma in children