Upper GI Conditions Flashcards
What is dysphagia?
Difficulty swallowing
What causes dysphagia?
3 things
- Mechanical obstruction
- Neurologic Disorders
- Muscular disorders
Sensation of food being stuck in the throat, choking, and coughing are manifestations of?
Dysphagia
What is the medical term for vomiting?
Emesis
Involuntary or voluntary forceful ejection of chyme from stomach through the esophagus and out the mouth
Vomiting
Increased intracranial pressure, severe pain, reverse peristalsis are causes of?
Vomiting
What could indicate bile due to GI obstruction?
Yellow or green vomitus
What could indicate content from lower intestine due to intestinal obstruction?
Deep brown vomitus
Fluid, electrolyte, and pH imbalances could be caused by …
recurrent vomiting
Where is vomiting coordinated?
The medulla
Stomach section protrudes through an opening in the diaphragm toward the lung
Hiatal hernia
Weakening of the diaphragm, muscle, trauma are causes of?
Hiatal hernia
Indigestion, heartburn, frequent belching, nausea, chest pain are manifestations of?
Hiatal hernia
Chyme or bile that periodically backs up from the stomach into the esophagus?
GERD
Certain foods, alcohol, nicotine, certain medications are causes of?
GERD
Heartburn, dry cough, and other symptoms confused with angina may warrant ruling out cardiac arrest are typically seen with?
GERD
Inflammation of the stomach’s mucosal lining?
Gastritis
Organisms via food/ water, meds, alcohol, stress are causes of?
Gastritis
What is helicobacter pylori?
A type of bug that imbeds into the mucous layer; MOST COMMON CAUSE OF CHRONIC GASTRITIS
What is the inflammation of the stomach and intestines, usually from infection or allergic reaction?
Gastroenteritis
Ingestion, heartburn, epigastric pain, nausea/ vomiting are manifestations of?
Gastritis
lesions affecting stomach lining or duodenum?
Peptic ulcer disease
Certain medications, H. pylori infections, smoking, alcohol, stress are causes of?
Peptic ulcer disease?
Excessive acid or H. pylori infections are associated with which type of ulcer?
Duodenal
Epigastric pain that is relieved in the presence of food is associated with?
Duodenal ulcers
Less frequent, but more deadly with pain that typically worsens with eating?
Gastric ulcers
Develop because of a major physiological stressor on the body?
Stress ulcers
Stress ulcers associated with burns
Curling’s ulcers
Stress ulcers associated with head injuries?
Cushing’s ulcers
Hemorrhaging is often the first indicator of?
Stress ulcers
Ulcers frequently developing in the stomach and can form within hours of an event are?
Stress ulcers
Hardened bile deposits/ calculi
Cholelithiasis (gallstones)
What could obstruct bile flow and cause gallbladder rupture, pancreatitis
Cholelithiasis
Inflammation or infection in the biliary system caused by calculi
Cholecystitis
Biliary colic, abdominal distention, nausea, vomiting, jaundice fever are manifestations of?
Cholelithiasis
