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What happens when you take a kid to the ER for abdominal pain?

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My 4yo has severe abdominal pain - she is currently en route to the hospital with my wife. Can anyone walk me through what will happen, more or less, once she arrives? The pain has been going on since last night, on and off, but it’s been constant and very severe for the last hour or so, and over the last ~20 minutes seemed to get even worse - thus the decision to take her to the hospital. We tried to press on her stomach to see if it was in the appendicitis area but she was just sobbing and not able to answer coherently.

Thankfully we live very close to an excellent pediatric hospital. I’m not too worried about covid exposure, just wondering what the work up will be - is she likely to get some kind of imaging? Medication? What will they do if she can’t hold still or doesn’t let the doctor touch her?

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