Quiz 6: GI System

Question 1

GI System Chart Review

Answer 1

Lab Values:
- CBC: Possibility of internal bleeding
- Check for anemia
- Check for iron deficiency

Medical History:
- History of GI conditions
- History of recent trauma/spleen rupture
- Long term NSAID use

Question 2

GI System Subjective Questions

Answer 2

Have you recently experienced….
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Constipation
- Diarrhea
- Abdominal Pain
- Change in stool color
- Change in the frequency of BM
- CHange in appetite

Question 3

GI system signs and symptoms

Answer 3

• Abdominal Pain
• Dysphagia
• Odynophagia
• GI bleeding
• Epigastric pain radiating to the back
• Symptoms affected by food
• Feeling of fullness
• Constipation
• Diarrhea
• Fecal Incontinence
• Joint pain
• Referred shoulder pain
  -Tenderness over mcburneys pint (appendicitis)
• Neuropathy