At what point do you feel abdominal pain? Pain moved?
How long does the pain?
What kind of pain (constant, paroxysmal, aching, sudden, unbearable)?
What is best for you: lie quietly or move?
Since the beginning of what you associate pain (the error in the diet, past infectious diseases, etc.)?
Did you vomit (how many times and how)? Has the nature of the chair? Increased if the temperature?
Did you have such attacks earlier (with cholelithiasis, chronic pancreatitis, and kidney stones pain attacks recur)?
What operations you have had in the past (post-surgical scars, adhesive disease, hernia increases the risk of strangulation intestinal obstruction)?
What operations you have had in the past (post-surgical scars, adhesive disease, hernia increases the risk of strangulation intestinal obstruction)?
What diseases you are suffering (for cardiovascular disease, hypertension, atrial fibrillation may be ischemia of the intestine, aortic dissection, aortic aneurysm rupture, thrombosis, with gallstone disease - obstructive pancreatitis)?
How much alcohol do you drink a day (with alcohol abuse and possibly exacerbation of chronic pancreatitis, hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver)?
In women of reproductive age should be collected gynecological history: when was the last menstrual period (to be confirmed presence or possibility of pregnancy)?
Painful menstruation is (a common symptom of endometriosis)?
There was a sharp pain in the middle of the menstrual cycle (ovulation suggests)?
Acute abdominal pain - a subjective feeling that the doctor must be properly interpreted.
1. Start: sudden slow gradual delayed
2. Intensity: strong, moderate
3. Dynamics: subsided, the growth, the changing nature
4. Character: constant cramping (colic)
5. Depth: deep, surface
6. Dependence from movements of physiological functions, from food intake
7. Location: in a particular area of the abdomen, diffuse, out of the stomach
8. Stability: Stable, migration
9. Irradiation: the segmental type, reflected the pain in the affected organs previously
