Abdominal pain is the most frequent reason patients seek hospital admissions, but diagnosis can be a bit challenging due to different associating conditions. The initial goal in diagnosing abdominal pain is to determine if the pain is from a benign entities or from a life threatening condition. The initial step in diagnosing abdominal pain is identifying the location of the patient’s pain which helps limit the differential diagnosis to a conditions that cause pain in a specific abdominal quadrant. Other features that narrows the diagnosis include the time and duration of the pain, abdominal distention, hypotension that is unexplained and peritoneal findings. When using time to narrow diagnosis, it is important to determine if the patient
