To study the epidemiology and clinical profile of adult patients with acute abdominal pain attending tertiary care hospital

Introduction: Acute abdomen is a very common problem in emergency department. Aims and Objectives: This study aims to find out the clinical and epidemiology profile of acute abdominal pain among patients attending emergency department of Santosh Medical College Ghaziabad. Materials and Methods: A tertiary care hospital based, cross-sectional study was conducted from January 2018- April 2019 2018, among patients presenting with acute abdominal pain to Santosh Medical College Ghaziabad, India. Data was entered on a standard data collection sheet after obtaining a written informed consent. Results: Out of 1200 patients admitted via the Emergency Department at the Hospital, 200 (16.6%) were admitted with atraumatic acute abdominal pain. Out of 200, 120(60%) were due to Surgical causes and 80 due to non-surgical causes. Most consistent symptom and sign were pain abdomen and abdominal tenderness respectively. Acute cholecystitis was the most common etiology of acute abdominal pain (35.8% cases), followed by, Renal Stones (30.5%), Acute Appendicitis (17.5%) and Intestinal Obstruction (16.67%) respectively. Conclusion: About 16.60% of all emergency admissions were due to acute abdominal pain and about 60.0% of all atraumatic acute abdominal pain was due to surgical cause. Acute cholecystitis was the most common cause of surgical abdominal pain.