safe care with gastrointestinal conditions

Question 1

how many quadrants are on the stomach?

Answer 1

4

Question 2

how many regions are on the stomach?

Answer 2

9

Question 3

what is the abdominal assessment?

Answer 3

inspect the stomach.
auscultate listening for the bowel sounds, any gurgling sounds.
palpation, wave like. start away from the pain. feeling for any accurate pain location and masses.
percusion- use to detect large armounts of fluid in the abdomen region.

Question 4

what does cloudy unrine mean?

Answer 4

dehydration, UTI, conditions related to the kidney

Question 5

what does brown urine mean?

Answer 5

dehydration, liver disease, porphyria, diet related

Question 6

what is red urine?

Answer 6

clotting, kidney stones, tumour in bladder

Question 7

what is green urine?

Answer 7

bacterial infection

Question 8

what is pink urine?

Answer 8

large prostrate. kidney stones, and tumours in the bladder.

Question 9

what is the bristol stool chart?

Answer 9

type1-7 of different types of poos. 1 being seperate hard lumps and 7 being watery no soild peices.

Question 10

what are the causes of abdo pain?

Answer 10

inflammatory bowel disease.
DKA (when there is severe lack of insulin in the body.)
lower lobe pneumonia (inflammation of the lobe)
constipation
UTI

Question 11

what is a UTI?

Answer 11

an infection in any part of the urinary system.

Question 12

what is the treatment for a UTI?

Answer 12

antibiotics and increase fluid intake

Question 13

what is appendictis?

Answer 13

inflammation of the appendix due to an virus that traps faecal matter and the mucus outflow is blocked and the appendix becomes distended.

Question 14

what are the signs of appendicitis?

Answer 14

nausea vommiting fever and pain

Question 15

what is gastroenteritis?

Answer 15

inflammation of the stomach/ small intenstine. spread through faecal-oral route.

Question 16

what are the signs of gastroenteritis?

Answer 16

vommiting, fever, diarrhoea, dehydration, abdominal pain

Question 17

what is the treatment for gastroenteritis?

Answer 17

oral fluids

Question 18

what are the 5 types of gi bleeds?

Answer 18

oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and rectum.

Question 19

what are the causes of an oesophagus bleed?

Answer 19

inflammination, tear, canver, dilated veins. causes vommiting with blood

Question 20

what are the causes of a stomach bleed?

Answer 20

ulcers, cancer, inflammation causes blood vomit

Question 21

what causes small intestine bleeds?

Answer 21

cancer, IBS

Question 22

what causes large intestine bleeds?

Answer 22

cancer, IBS inflammation

Question 23

what causes rectum bleeding?

Answer 23

haemorrhoids (lumbs around your bum)