Abdominal + oncology Flashcards
Acute pancreatitis
s/s
a) about pain
b) other findings
c) what sing will be positive?
d) watch out for?
a) Severe LUQ Pain(radiate to the back)
-pain after large meal or alcohol
Pain not relieved by vomiting
b)Dec bowel sounds
Low-grade fever
Jandice
c) Grey-Turner sign
Cullen sign(umbilicus)
d) Hypovolemia(possible shock)
Lab
a) Amylase
how long it remins?
b) Lipase
how long it remins?
a) inc with in 12-24hr
remains 2-3days
b) inc slowely
remains in 2 weeks
c) Glucose
d) calcium
e) LDH,AST
f) WBC, sed rate
g) platelets
a) inc
b) dec
e) inc
f) inc
g) dec
A nurse is completing the admission assessment on a pt who has acute pancreatitis. Which of the following findings is the priority to be reported to the provider?
History of cholelithiasis
Serum amylase levels three times greater than the expected value.
Pt report of severe pain radiating to the back that is rated at an “8”
Hand spasms present when blood pressure is checked
Hand spasms present when blood pressure is checked
bacuse of low calcium
Complication
Pseudocyst
Accumulated pancreatic enzymes
Resolve spontaneously or rupture → peritonitis
Complication
Abscess
Infectoion leads to necrosis and that also leads perforation into adjacent organs
Surgery drainage immediately
When assessing a patient with acute pancreatitis the nurse would expect to find:
a) Pain in the right upper quadrant radiating to the right shoulder
b) Reporting of pain being worse when sitting upright
c) Severe mid-epigastric or left upper quadrant pain
d) Pain relieved with defecation
c
Pancreatitis
nursing care
a) pain
b) diet
a) pt upright w/knee flexed to chest, fetal position
DO NOT lay flat,inc pain
b) NPO
or small frequent meals with high protein and carb with low fat
Nursing management of the patient with acute pancreatitis includes:SATA
Check for S/S of hypocalemia
Monitor of infection
Provide diet high in protein and fat
Restrict fluid administration
a.b
Acute abdomen
common causes?
onset with in 24hr
Inflamamation
Perforated
Obstraction
Internal bleeding
How to assess to pain?
O– onset
L – location
D – duration
C – character
A – aggravating factors
R– relieving factors
T– treatments
S – Symptoms (N,V,D or fevers, etc)
Pain location
a) RUQ
b) LUQ
c) RLQ
d) LLQ
e) what order to assess abdominal?
a) Gallbladder
ascending colon
b) Pancreatitis
desending colon
spleen
stomach
c) Appendicitis
d) constipation
e) inspection
Ausculation
percussion
Palpation
Murphy’s Sign?
Place hand firmly at right costal margin (RUQ)
Ask patient to breathe deeply
Pain=Positive Cholecystitis
McBurney’s Point?
Deep tenderness in RLQ
Acute appendicitis
Psoas & Obturator Sign?
Appendicitis
Psoas-pain passive extention on the right thigh
Obtirator-pain on passive internal rotation of the hip