Pediatric Abdominal Surgical Disease: The Rule of 6

Age ain’t nothin’ but a number? You are only as young as you feel? When it comes to pediatric abdominal surgical disease is timing really is everything? Hopefully, you enjoy the rule of six (credit to Dr. Dave Nelson for this) as a framework for the common presentation of abdominal surgical disease in the pediatric patient.

References

• Does age really matter?
• You have to look in the diaper
• Twist and shout
• Ultrasound for malrotation
• DIY pyloric ultrasound
• Blocked brain or blocked bowel?
• Early discharge after reducing a “nursemaids bowel”
• Does this child have appendicitis?
• Laboratory studies for appendicitis: a study of spectrum bias
• Start with the ultrasound, then what?