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Chapter 62: Respiratory Distress Flashcards

1
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This is a feeling of difficult, labored and uncomfortable breathing

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Dyspnea

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Dyspnea in the recumbinant position

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Orthopnea (most often result fo left ventricular failue other cause are diaphragmatic paralysis and COPD)

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Dyspnea associated with lying on one side (lateral decubitus position) but not the other side

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Trepopnea (side of disease lungs to increase blood supply)

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4
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Dyspnea in the upright position

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Platypnea

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What are the causes of platypnea?

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Loss of abdominal wall muscular tone and right to left shunt (patent foramen ovale)

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6
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The sensation of dyspnea occurs when imbalance exists among

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  • Inspiratory drive
  • Efferent activity to the respiratory muscles
  • Feedback from these afferent
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7
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When patient presents with parodoxical abdominal wall movement it means?

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Diaphragmatic fatigue

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8
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What is the prominent feature of acute heart failure?

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Dyspnea

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9
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What symptoms patient with dyspnea suggest cardiac in origin than pulmonary?

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  • S3 gallop
  • Pulmonary congestion/intertitial edema
  • Cardiomegaly
  • Neck vein distention
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10
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Causes of dyspnea in the ED can be identified by

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  • History
  • PE
  • ECG
  • POCUS
  • Chest xray
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11
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Can use to diagnose dyspnea resulting from COPD

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Bedside spirometric analysis

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12
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Can assess strength of the diaphragm and inspiratory muscle

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Negative inspiratory force (use in neuromuscular disease)

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13
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Test can be use to identify ventricular overload

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BNP

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14
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Normal level of BNP and pro-BNP

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BNP <100

pro-BNP <300

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15
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BNP value that have no utility in excluding or including heart failure in the dyspneic patient

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BNP 100 - 500

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16
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Test that can be helpful in evaluation dyspnea in the ED

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BNP and D-dimer

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17
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In severe dyspnea what is the initial treatment goal?

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PaO2 >60

SaO2 =/>90%

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18
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What is hypoxia?

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Insufficient alveolar oxygen content or insufficient delivery of oxygen to the tissue

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19
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Oxygen delivery is a product of?

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CaO2 multiply to cardiac output

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20
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Tissue hypoxia occurs in state of?

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  • Low cardiac output
  • Low hemoglobin
  • Low SaO2
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What is hypoxemia?

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An abnormally low arterial oxygen tension (PaO2 <60mmHg)

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What is the most common cause of hypoxemia?

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Alveolar hypoxia

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23
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What is relative hypoxemia?

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Term used when the arterial oxygen tension is lower than expected for a given level of inhaled oxygen

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24
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How to calculate Alveolar oxygen partial pressure?

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  • Inhaled oxygen concentration (21%)
  • Atmospheric pressure (760mmHg)
  • Displacement by water vapor (47mmHg)
  • CO2
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25
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What is normal P(A-a)o2?

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<10mmHg

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26
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Predicted formula for P(A-a)o2

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P(A-a)o2 = 2.5 + 0.21 (age in years) (± 11)

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27
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Hypoventilation mechanism

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increased PaCO2 and normal A-a O2 gradient

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28
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Why is there always a some degree of right to left shunting?

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Direct left atria return from coronary and bronchial veins

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29
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Right to left shunt mechanism

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Increase in the A-a O2 gradient

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30
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What is the hallmark of significant right to left shunting?

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Failure of arterial oxygen levels to increase in response to supplemental oxygen

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31
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All the mechanism that increase A-a O2 gradient improves with oxygenation except?

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Right to left shunting

32
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What are the mechanism of hypoxemia?

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  1. Hypoxia
  2. Right to left shunt
  3. V/Q mismatch
  4. Diffusion impairment
  5. Low inspired oxygen (high altitude)
33
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However, the acute compensatory mechanisms are always activated when Pao2 reaches _____, and compensatory mechanisms fail when Pao2 falls below ____.

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However, the acute compensatory mechanisms are always activated when Pao2 reaches 60 mm Hg (8 kPa), and compensatory mechanisms fail when Pao2 falls below 20 mm Hg (2.67 kPa).

34
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Define hypercapnia

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Paco2 >45mmHg

35
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What are the causes of alveolar hypoventilation?

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  • Decrease in respiration
  • Decrease in tidal volume
  • Increase in dead space
36
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How COPD can produce alveolar hypoventilation?

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Increase in dead space

37
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Acute elevation of PaCO2 at what level can cause cardiovascular collapse?

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PaO2 >100mmHg

38
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Acute CO2 - bicarbonate equilibrium

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10mmHg:1mEq/L

39
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Chronic CO2 - bicarbonate equilibrium

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10mmHg:3.5mEq/L

40
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How can hypercapnia treated?

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Increase minute ventilation and tidal volume

41
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This drug is use as respiratory stimulant

42
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What is acute, subacute and chronic cough?

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Acute <3 weeks
Subacute 3-8 weeks
Chronic >8 weeks

43
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Acute cough is usually cause by what?

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Self -limited upper respiratory or bronchial infections

44
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What is the hallmark of acute bronchitis?

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Productive cough

45
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Pertusis cough is acute ranging from?

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1 - 6 weeks

46
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Most common cause of chronic cough

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  1. Smoking (morning)
  2. Upper airway cough syndrome (postnasal discharge)
  3. Asthma (night)
  4. GERD
  5. ACE blocker
47
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What is the mechanism of cough in ACE inhibitor?

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Accumulation of bradykinin and substance P taht stimulates pulmonary cough receptors

48
Q

Part of most proprietary cough preparations, soothe the pharynx and modestly alter the cough reflex

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Demulcents

49
Q

Drug that reduces coughin in patients with acute bronchitis?

50
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For patient with intractable coughing paroxysmal in the ED, we can give what?

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Lidocaine 4ml (40 or 80mg) neb - suppres gag reflex due to posterior pharyngeal anesthesia

51
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What is hiccups?

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Involuntary spastic contraction of the inspiratory muscle

52
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What are the causes of hiccups?

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Stimulation, inflammation and injury to the nerves (phrenic and vagus)

53
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What are the classifications of hiccups?

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Benign <48 hours
Persistent <48 hours
Intractable >1 month

54
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What are the example of benign hiccups?

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  • Gastric distention
  • Alcohol ingestion
  • Smoking
  • Changes in temperature
55
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Drug that stimulates hiccups

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Chemotherapy and Dexamethasone

56
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If the hiccups is called psychogenic in cause what is the characteristic?

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Resolution during sleep

57
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If patient with persistent hiccups what can you do at ED?

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  • Look at external auditory canal
  • CXR
  • Fluoroscopy - diaphragmatic movement
58
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Method that can be use to eliminate hiccups

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  • Swallowing a teaspoon of dry granulated sugar
  • Sip ice water
  • Drink water quickly
59
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What drug can you give with intractable hiccups?

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Chlorpromazine (FDA approved) 25-50mg IV every 2-5 hours and Metoclopromide

60
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Give some example of persistent and intractable hiccups

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  • CNS lesions

- Uremia, hyperglycemia

61
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If intractable hiccups does not resolve to Chlorpromazine you can give what?

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  • Nifedipine
  • Valproic avid
  • Baclofen
  • Gabapentin
62
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Reason for patient with central cyanosis?

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Inadequate pulmonary oxygenation and abnormal hemoglobin

63
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Cyanosis is usually visible when deoxygenated hemoglobin exceeds _____

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Cyanosis is usually visible when deoxygenated hemoglobin exceeds 5 grams/dL (50 grams/L)

64
Q

This is called a bluish discoloration of skin due to drugs

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Pseudocyanosis (normal lips and mucous membrane)

65
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Sample drugs that can produce pseudocyanosi?

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  • Chlorpromazine
  • Minocycline
  • Amiodarone
  • Nicorandil
  • Gold
  • Silver
66
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What will pulse oximetry show in patients with methemoglobinemia and carboxyhemoglobinemia?

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  • Methemoglobinemia (overestimate the true oxygen saturation)
  • Carboxyhemoglobinemia (read as oxyhemoglobin so overestimate)
67
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Administer oxygen to all patients with central cyanosis; failure to improve suggests what?

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  • Shock
  • Abnormal hemoglobin
  • Pseudocyanosis
68
Q

In developed country, what is the most common cause of pleural effusion?

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  • Heart failure
  • Pneumonia
  • Cancer
69
Q

How many ml of fluids per day is reabsorbed by visceral microcirculation?

70
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Pleural effusion in chest xray upright seen is about how many ml?

71
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How can you say that pleural effusion is significant?

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A significant pleural effusion is large enough to produce a pleural fluid strip >10 mm wide on lateral decubitus radiographic views or by US

72
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How can diuretics obscure the distintion between exudates and transudates. If known transudative pleural effusions?

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The resorption of water is faster than the protein. So protein concentration is increase in the range consistent with exudative etiology

73
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Thoracentesis is indicated with pleural effusion when?

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If with dyspnea at rest (1-1.5L)

74
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What are the components of light criteria?

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  • Protein

- LDH

75
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What is the normal pleural fluid ph?

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Around 7.64

76
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Increase pleural fluid amylase indicates?

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  • Pancreatitis

- Esophageal rupture

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