Surgery Flashcards
What electrolyte is mainly responsible for refeeding syndrome?
Hypophosphotemia
Increased release of which hormone leads to hypophosphotemia, hypokalemia, and hypomagnesia during refeeding syndrome?
Insulin
What other abnormality is associated with omphalocele and presents with biliary vomiting in infants?
Midgut rotation
What intestinal complication has hyperactive “tinkling” bowel sounds?
Small bowel obstruction
Which inflammatory bowel disease presents with cobblestoning, skip lesions, and deep serpiginous ulcers?
Chron’s Disease
Which inflammatory bowel disease presents with continuous, shallow ulcerations, and pseudopolyps?
Ulcerative colitis
Which inflammatory bowel disease has pathology that extends beyond the submucosa, if often transmural, and may have noncaseating granulomas?
Chron’s Disease
Which inflammatory bowel disease has pathology that is usually limited to the mucosa?
Ulcerative colitis
What is the most likely diagnosis in someone presenting with constipation, hematochezia, and fecal incontinence after treatment for prostate cancer?
Radiation proctitis
What medication can be used when variceal bleeding is suspected? By what MOA?
Octreotide infusion; somatostatin mimic that inhibits splanchnic vasodilation
Toxic Megacolon is a complicatino that may arise from which other intestinal disorder?
C. Diff
What digestive disease leads to “trachealization” of the esophagus that appears with small, whitish exudates with multiple, stacked indentations?
Eosinophilic esophagitis
What (2) lung function measurements are the best predictors of postoperative outcomes following lung resection surgery?
FEV1 and diffusion capacity of CO
What lung disease can occur after chest trauma that leads to localized pulmonary edema within 24h?
Pulmonary contusion
What is suspected in a patient that comes in with altered mental status after a motor vehicle accident with a bone fracture?
Fat embolus
