Early indications of abdominal trauma include nausea, vomiting, and fever.

Motor vehicle collisions are a common source of blunt abdominal trauma.

Hemorrhage and systemic infection are the main causes of deaths that result from abdominal trauma.

One or more of the intra-abdominal organs may be injured in abdominal trauma.

Spleen is the most common damaged organ in blunt abdominal trauma.

Fractured skulls and abdominal trauma too, where something has stabbed into the patient's body.

The pancreas is one of the least commonly injured organs in abdominal trauma.

Contact sports, especially those that could result in abdominal trauma, should be avoided.

The kidney is injured in approximately 10% of all significant blunt abdominal trauma.

Recently, criteria have been defined that might allow patients with blunt abdominal trauma to be discharged safely without further evaluation.