Signs&Symptoms
Assessments
Drug Therapy
Lifestyle Changes
Nursing
100
A key indicator that your patient may have pancreatitis...
What is Abdominal Pain
100
Past Health History that may effect/cause Pancreatitis
What is Biliary Tract Disease, Heavy Alcohol Use, Ab Trauma,
100
It is important to control this symptom, by using this drug. (2 answers)
What is Pain and Morphine
100
Patient's with a history of pancreatitis should avoid this
What is Alcohol and caffeine
100
Nurses should monitor for hypocalcemia, signs are.
What is jerking, irritability, twitiching, numb/tingling of the mouth and trousseau's sign.
200
These lab values will be increased with the onset of pancreatitis
What is Serum Amylase and Lipase
200
What is Cullen's Sign
What is Periumbilical Discoloration
200
This drug relaxes smooth muscle, thus lowering pain
What is Nitroglycerin and Papaverine
200
Patients with Chronic Pancreatitis should only eat foods that are this
What is Bland and Low-Fat
200
Due to nausea, vomiting and anorexia, this should be monitored
What is fluid balance
300
Patients who have frothy, foul smelling stool also called
What is Streatorrhea
300
This can be inspected when auscultating the lungs
What is crackles
300
Antispasmatics are important for this reason
What is decreasing vagal stimulation, motility and pancreatic outflow
300
Patients should tell their MD if they notice this symptom because it may indicate distruction of the pancreas
What is streattorhea
300
This happens to the pancreas when pancreatitis is chronic
What is fibrotic tissue on the pancreas resulting from progressive destruction. Also calcification, atrophy and strictures may occur.
400
These may worsen pain of patients with pancreatitis
What is Alcohol and Eating
400
Medications that may contribute to pancreatitis
What is Thiazides and inti-inflammatory drugs
400
H2 Antagonists and PPIs are used for
What is lowering HCL Acid secretions
400
Patients should monitor their ____ because _____ may develop if they have chronic pancreatitis.
What is Blood Glucose, Diabetes Mellitus
400
Tetany may occur do to this imbalance
What is hypocalcemia
500
This enzyme becomes trapped in the Pancreas thus digesting the pancreas
What is Trypsin
500
Patient's who have pancreatitis may develop this metabolic disease and must be monitored
What is Diabetes Mellitus
500
This drug therapy is used for chronic pancreatitis and not acute pancreatitis
What is pancreatic enzyme products
500
College students are at risk for pancreatitis because
What is high alcohol intake and risk for ulcers from stress because of clinical presentations during midterms... :)
500
Possible complications of pancreatitis are
What is bile duct obstruction, pleural effusion, and pancreatic cancer.
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