18 Intestinal Resections

Question 1

What is cholecystitis?

Answer 1

imflammation of the gall bladder

Question 2

Who tends to get gallstones?

Answer 2

fair
fat
female
fertile
forties

Question 3

Why might we not want to do open cholecystectomies?

Answer 3

cuts through the muscles in the abdominal wall, it will hence hurt to breathe post-op

Question 4

What are some possible complications of cholecystectomy?

Answer 4

diarrhoeea
common bile duct will become a little gall bladder
jaundice is you really fuck it

Question 5

What is the preferred method for gastrectomies?

Answer 5

roux-en-Y, as you keep the stomach and hence the acid it produces

Question 6

What would we use a pancreaticoduodectomy for?

What might we want to preserve?

Answer 6

pancreatic cancer

we preserve the pylorus

Question 7

how do you fashion a new anus in a hemicolonectomy?

Answer 7

make an ileostomy, pull out a section of the ileum, and fold it over, so the small bowel can empty into a stoma