Welcome to the Recess Room podcast.

Five, four, three, two, one, fire.

So hi, and welcome back to the Recess Room podcast.

I'm Simon Lang.

And I'm Rob Fenwick.

And this time we're going to be having a chat about acute

colisisitis and making that diagnosis. So a really core presentation to the emergency department

that no doubt we see cases like this day in, day out. Certainly do. In fact, I saw one

only yesterday, Simon. So this is really good to have a recap. This is a really core topic. Thank you for

bringing it to the table this month. No problem. And a big thanks to our sponsors, AdPrak, yet again,

for making this all possible. So, without further ado, let's crack on with the topic. So there are a few

references and documents that are definitely, definitely worth going to have a look at.

And a lot of this podcast takes some information from the Association of Upper GI Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland

and the Royal College of Surgeons Commissioning Guide to Galstone Disease, which was published in 2016.

Not only that, but we're going to be running through a paper which looks at the characteristics

of some of those tests that we apply when we're looking at a patient with abdominal pain

and we're thinking about colysisitis.

So a bit of background, Rob, question time. How many people in the UK have gallstones?

Oh, as a percentage or as an absolute number? I don't mind, you may give me an absolute number,

but I'm not quite sure of the current population of the UK at the moment. So possibly a percentage

might be slightly easier to work with.

20%?

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