Unit 3 Disease Process Signs & Symptoms

Question 1

• heart burn
• chest pain
• esophageal reflux
• regurgitation
• belching
• dysphagia
• worsen symptoms: aspiration, respiratory issues

Answer 1

Sliding Hernia

Question 2

• feeling of fullness
• breathlessness
• feeling of suffocation
• chest pain that mimics angina
• worsen symptoms in a recumbent position & bending position

Answer 2

Rolling Hernia

Question 3

• pain 30 min after meal
•worsen by food ingestion
• hematemesis
•malnourishment

Answer 3

Peptic Ulcer Disease (Gastric)

Question 4

• flank pain
• fever
• urinary disturbances (blood in urine, yellow/orange urine, polyuria, anuria)
• diaphoresis
• N/V
• change in vitals (^ HR, ^ BP)
• intense growing pain
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Answer 4

Urolithiasis (Kidney stones)

Question 5

• fever
• flank pain
• N/V
•urinary disturbances (burning, urgency, nocturia)
• sudden onset of confusion or falls (OA)
• Changes in vital signs
•^WBC

Answer 5

Pyelonephritis (Kidney infection)

Question 6

• pain with bowel movement
• pain with sitting
• bleeding from anus

Answer 6

Hemorrhoids

Question 7

• board like abdomen
• abdominal pain
• diminished bowel sounds
• constant hiccups
• changes in V.S (^HR, fever, oliguria, BP decrease)

Answer 7

Peritonitis (inflammation of abdomen)

Question 8

• 5-6 soft bowel movements a day
• fever
• anorexia/malabsorption
• RLQ pain they stops after bowel movement
• decrease bowel sounds
• anemia from dehydration
• fistula formation

Answer 8

Crohn’s Disease

Question 9

• 10-20 liquid stool bowel movements daily
• constant pain
• dehydration
• anorexia
• fever
•tenesmus
• pain in LLQ
• anemia
• stool changes
• hyperactive bowels
• malaise
• bloody diarrhea

Answer 9

Ulcerative colitis (inflammation of colon)

Question 10

• LLQ pain
• bowel changes
• hx of constipation
• fever
• N/V
• abdominal distinction
• bleeding

Answer 10

Diverticulitis (pouches in international walls)

Question 11

• upper abdominal pain
• anorexia
• N/V
• gas/indigestion
• fever
• stool changes (clay color/consistency)
•C/D
• yellow green stills that looks like fat/fatty stools

Answer 11

Cholecystitis (inflamed gallbladder)

Question 12

• pain occurs 1.5-3hrs after meals
• often wakes at night with pain on a empty stomach
• relieved by food ingestion
• Melina (black tarry stool)
• well nourished

Answer 12

Peptic Ulcer Disease (Duodenum)