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Cirrhosis
Crohns Disease
Hepatitis
Gallbladder Disorders
Peptic Ulcer Disease
100
This is the most common type of cirrhosis, usually resulting from chronic alcohol intake and frequently associated with poor nutrition.
What is alcoholic or Laennec’s cirrhosis?
100
This chronic inflammatory condition can occur in any portion of the gastrointestinal tract but predominantly affects the bowel in the terminal portion of the ileum.
What is Crohns Disease?
100
The form of hepatitis transmitted oral-fecal or oral-oral. Water, food, and equipment can be infected with this form of hepatitis.
What is Hepatitis A?
100
Question: These disorders of the gallbladder are intimately related and almost always coexist. Their incidence increases progressively with age.
What is Cholelithiasis and cholecystitis ?
100
A type of bacteria found with ulcers
What is H. Pylori?
200
These lab values are essential in diagnosing and managing cirrhosis.
What are bilirubin and albumin levels?
200
With Crohns’s disease theses inflammatory channels containing blood, mucus, or stool may develop.
What is a fistula?
200
This type of hepatitis transmitted through blood and body fluids. This virus has a 2-5 month incubation period and is commonly spread through intercourse.
What is Hepatitis B?
200
Question: Disorders of the gallbladder cause clients to have yellow staining of body tissues and fluids; this is referred to as jaundice. As a result, clients with jaundice have elevated bilirubin levels. As well the prothrombin may be prolonged as a result of interference with the absorption of this important antihemorrhagic factor.
What is vitamin K?
200
Pinpoint pain relieved by food, milk, and antacids
What is a peptic ulcer?
300
This is a result of no bile in the gastrointestinal tract.
What is passing clay colored or whitish stool?
300
Surgical of a large amount of intestine results in the loss of this absorptive surface.
What is short bowel syndrome?
300
This is considered the best defense from contracting hepatitis B.
What is the 3 dose hepatitis vaccination?
300
Question: This nursing diagnosis is related to altered biliary drainage after gallbladder surgery and insertion of T-tube, Penrose drain or both. The nurse should be sure to inspect all drainage tubes to ensure they are properly connected to drainage bags, appropriately covered with sterile dressing, and fastened to client’s clothing to prevent dislodgement or kinking.
What is impaired skin integrity?
300
Peptic ulcers that persist despite medical interventions are referred to as this
What are refractory ulcers?
400
These accumulations cause pruritus of the skin during cirrhosis.
What is an accumulation of bile salts?
400
The systemic nature of this disease is evidenced by symptoms outside the gastrointestinal tract; arthritis, arthralgias, skin lesions, inflammation in the eyes and disorders of the liver and gallbladder is referred to as this.
What is extraintestinal manifestation of irritable bowel disease?
400
This stage of hepatitis increases your risk of developing hepatic cancer. It has an incubation period of 2- 20 weeks and if often contracted through infected blood or blood products.
What is Hepatitis C?
400
Bile created by the liver and stored In the gallbladder moves through these two tubes into the small intestine.
What is cystic and common bile?
400
Clients with a gastrojejunostomy are at risk for developing this syndrome.
What is known as dumping syndrome?
500
This is a result of destruction of liver cells secondary to infection, metabolic liver disease or exposure to hepatotoxins or industrial chemicals.
What is postnecrotic cirrhosis?
500
These three elemental diet formulas reduce proteins, fats, and carbohydrates to an easily absorbed form.
What is Tolerex, Vivonex and Peptamen?
500
This is the stage in which the hepatitis A patient is considered infectious. The virus can be found in the blood, bile, and stool.
What is the incubational stage?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! Question: A surgical formation of a passage between the common bile duct and the duodenum used in the treatment of selected patients with retained, recurrent, and impacted bile duct stones.
What is a Choledochoduodenostomy?
500
Hypersecretion of hydrocholoric acid and pepsin aggravate this condition due to the release of this substance.
What is histamine?