Structure & Function
Skeletal muscle that is covered by taste buds
What is the tongue?
Type of precautions to use in caring for ostomies and enemas.
What is standard precautions?
This interferes with digestion of starch, making swallowing difficult, and increasing the potential for tooth decay.
What is decreasing saliva production?
A tissue breakdown in the digestive tract.
What is an ulceration?
Maintaining this is important for bowel elimination.
What is fluid intake?
This structure mechanically breaks up food into smaller piecse, forming a bolus of food that is swallowed.
What is teeth?
Time not to administer an enema.
What is an hour following a meal?
This loss increases the risk of choking and aspiration.
What is the gag reflex?
What is cholelithiasis?
The most important part of hygiene with bowel elimination.
Pancreatic enzyme that begins protein breakdown.
What is pepsin?
The position for the patient to adminster an enema.
What is the left sims position?
This movement of ____ is slower from the ____ to the _____.
What is the movement of the food into the stomach through the esophagus?
A weakened area in the muscle that normally restrains it.
What is a hernia?
The hygiene task is important when caring for patients with bowel elimination.
What is perineal care?
What organ is located in the RLQ, attched to the cecum.
What is the appendix?
The four characteristics to observe when caring for an ostomy.
What is color, charcter, amount, and frequency?
This is lost and why elderly add a great deal of additives to food.
What is loss of taste buds?
Symptoms caused depends on location like obstruction, indigestion, and vomiting.
What is a malignancy?
Strongly encouraged to all patients to improve bowel elmination (not fluid intake)
What is exercise or activity?
The long, narrow tapered distal end that connects to the small intestine.
What is the pylorus?
The size of the opening must be ___ larger that the size of the opening when cutting into an appliance.
What is 1/8 inch?
Aging Change
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Treatment for this includes medication to slow peristalsis and reduce inflammation, modification of diet, and antibiotics.
What is ulcerative colitis?
A sample of fecal material obtained.
What is a stool specimen?