634 Analgesia Use in Acute Renal Colic Patients- Complete Audit Cycle

Acute Management of Renal Colic and Compliance with National Standards: Closure of the Audit Loop

Ureteric colic is a very common problem. Patients often present to A+E in significant pain, with sepsis. There are very strict guidelines produced by the BAUS and the College of Emergency Medicine. Despite this, over a quarter of UK A&E departments did not perform any radiological investigations when patients presented with renal colic. Shockingly some departments do not even offer renal colic ...

Acute renal colic: An imaging update

Renal colic is a common cause of severe acute abdominal pain in clinical practice. Classical symptoms include acute frank pain radiating to the groin, nausea and vomiting. There is often laboratory evidence of haematuria. Men are more often affected than women and the incidence increases with age. Acute renal colic is usually due to renal or ureteric stones. Most stones measuring 5mm or less in...

Acute renal colic: Beyond kidney stones.

Acute Renal Colic from Ureteral Calculus

N Engl J Med 2004;350:684-93. Copyright © 2004 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 39-year-old man reports an eight-hour history of colicky pain in the right lower quadrant radiating to the tip of his penis. He had previously had a kidney stone, which passed spontaneously. Physical examination shows that he is in distress, is afebrile, and has tenderness of the right costovertebral angle and lower...

Improving the effectiveness of the emergency management of renal colic in a district general hospital: a completed audit cycle.

OBJECTIVES To assess the current practice of emergency management of renal colic in a district hospital, review literature, implement new guidelines, and assess them. METHODS Data were collected about the use of analgesia, waiting time for intravenous urography (IVU), and admission status of patients presenting to the hospital with symptoms of renal colic over the period of three months. A li...