GI FA Flashcards
Most common cause of lower GI bleed > 40
Diverticulosis
Diagnostic test for equivocal US in cholecystitis
HIDA scan
Risk factors for cholithiasis
Fat, forty, female, fertile, flatulent
Inspiratory arrest during palpation of the RUQ
Murphy’s sign (acute cholecystitis)
Most common cause of SBO with or without history of abd surgery
Adhesions
Hernia
Charcot’s triad
RUQ pain, jaundice, fever/chills. (Ascending cholangitis)
Difference between Mallory-Weiss and Boerhaavr tears
Mallory-Weiss: superficial tear. Boerhaave: full-thickness rupture
IBD extraintestinal findings
Uveitis, ankylosing spondylitis, pyoderma gangrenosum, erythema nodosum, primary sclerosing cholangitis
25 year old with pain, watery diarrhea after meals. Fistulas between bowel and skin, nodular tibia lesions.
Crohn’s
Most common diarrhea?
Campylobacter
Diarrhea with recent abtibiotics
C diff
Camping diarrhea
Giardia
Traveler’s diarrhea
ETEC
Church picnics/mayonnaise diarrhea
S aureus
Uncooked hamburgers diarrhea
E Coli O157:H7
Fried rice diarrhea
Bacillus cereus
Poultry/eggs diarrhea
Salmonella
Raw seafood diarrhea
Vibrio, HAV
AIDS diarrhea
Isospira, Cryptosporidium, MAC
Pseudoappenditicitis diarrhea
Yersinia
Sudden onset of severe, diffuse abd pain. Peritoneal signs, AXR with free air under diaphragm. Management?
Emergent laparotomy to repair perforated viscus
Reynold’s pentad
Charcot’s (RUQ pain, jaundice, fever/chills) + shock and AMS (supprative ascending cholangitis
Med treatment for hepatic encephalopathy
Dec protein intake, lactulose, rifaximin
First step for acute GI bleed management
ABCs
4 year old with oliguria, petechiae, jaundice following bloody diarrhea
HUS due to E coli O157:H7
Post-HBV exposure treatment
HBV immunoglobulin
Drug induced causes of hepatitis
TB meds (INH, rifampin, pyrazinamide), tetracycline, acetominophen
Highest risk of incarcerated hernia
femoral
40 year old female with elevated Alk Phos, bilirubin, pruritis, dark urine, and clay-colored stools
Biliary tract obstruction
50 yo man with history of alcohol abuse, epigastric pain radiating to the back, relieved by sitting forward
Confirm acute pancreatitis with elevated amylase and lipase. Make the pt NPO and on IV fluids, O2, analgesia, “tincture of time”