GI recap

Question 1

GORD

• symptoms
• Ix
• Mx

Answer 1

symptoms - heartburn, waterbrash, retrosternal chest pain, regurg food/ acid
Ix - clinical, OGD if ALARMS 55**/ treatment resistent dyspepsia, N&B, low Hb, raised plt count
Mx
- c - avoid alc/ smoke/ caffeine
- m - rennie/ gaviscon, PPI, H2R antagonist
- s - lap funduplication

Question 2

ALARMS 55

Answer 2

anaemia
loss of weight
anorexia
melaena/ mass/ haematemessis
swallowing difficulties
>55yrs