ABSTRACT
Introduce yourself and explain what you are about to do. Confirm the patient’s name and obtain their consent to continue.
Your history should elicit the nature of the abdominal pain, its site, severity and character, its radiation, and exacerbating and relieving factors. In this patient, because of his age and the distribution of pain from the history at triage, there is a high index of suspicion of an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA).
