Children's experts say doctors and parents can sort out symptoms with a checklist
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 - 02:28
in Health & Medicine
A young child arrives at the emergency room after several days of abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea and is sent home with a diagnosis of viral gastritis and treatment for the symptoms. The child seems better for a while, only to return to the ER with worse symptoms and a ruptured appendix, a life-threatening complication of appendicitis.