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Emergency Medicine/Jaundice

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Patients with jaundice on exam:

  • pancreatic origin
  • hepatic origin
  • biliary origin
  • hemolytic origin

Painless jaundice is pancreatic cancer until proven otherwise

Labs:

  • liver function tests
  • CBC
  • PT/INR, PTT
  • abdominal US
  • hepatitis serologies