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Question 1

What is the reccomended limits per week women and men?

Answer 1

14 units

Question 2

What is binge drinking?

Answer 2

6-8 units

Question 3

What can be seen on your hands from chronic alcoholism?

Answer 3

Palmar Erythema- related to underlying liver cirrhosis

Dupuytren’s Contracture - benign fibrosis of the palmar fascia

Question 4

What can be seen on the skin from chronic alcoholism?

Answer 4

caput medusae - portal hypertension due to cirrhosis

Question 5

What can occur in the brain due to chronic alcoholism?

Answer 5

subdural haemotoma 
peripheral neuropathy (due to thiamine deficiency)

Question 6

Where does aspiration pneumonia usually occur?

Answer 6

inferior right lobe

Question 7

What heart changes are due to alcohol?

Answer 7

dialated cardiomyopathy - heart loses force on contraction so has to work harder and gets floppy but thicker

Question 8

What can occur in the liver due to alcohol?

Answer 8

fatty liver - reversible - occurs 3-6 days after drinking

cirrhosis - irreversible

Question 9

What does red velvety muscosae in the oesophagus indicate?

Answer 9

Barretts oesophagus (the metaplastic epithelium)