{"id":237,"date":"2020-08-17T06:20:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T06:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=237"},"modified":"2020-08-17T06:20:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T06:20:29","slug":"acute-scrotal-pain-or-swelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/acute-scrotal-pain-or-swelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Acute scrotal pain or swelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Acute_scrotal_pain_or_swelling\/\">Acute scrotal pain or swelling<\/a> was an existing Victorian CPG that has been revised then reviewed by CPG Committee members. It will be considered for PIC endorsement on 27 August.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Testicular torsion is an emergency. It requires immediate referral to a surgeon<\/li>\n<li>Surgical evaluation should be undertaken in all cases where testicular torsion cannot be confidently excluded<\/li>\n<li>Ultrasound should only be considered in selected cases, after surgical assessment<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This existing Victorian CPG has been revised and will be considered for PIC endorsement on 27 August<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}