Week 5 GI

Question 1

What is the series of involuntary wave like muscle contractions which move food along the digestive tract?

Answer 1

Peristalsis

Question 2

What is pulmonary contusion?

Answer 2

A bruise on the lungs from chest trauma

Question 3

What is the bleeding between the tissue and cells called?

Answer 3

Interstitial hemorrhaging

Question 4

What is it called when you have unrelieved constipation, a collection of hardened feces wedged in the rectum a person cannot expel?

Answer 4

Impaction

Question 5

What incontinence?

Answer 5

the inability to control passage of feces gas to anus

Question 6

What is hemorrhoids?

Answer 6

Dialated, engorged veins in the lining of the rectum

Question 7

What is the accumulation of gas in the intestines causing the walls to stretch?

Answer 7

Flatulence

Question 8

What are two bowl related diagnostics test?

Answer 8

Hgb and Hct

H & H

Question 9

what is a barium swallow?

Answer 9

medical imaging test that uses barium, a white, chalky liquid, to visualize the upper gastrointestinal (GI) tract, including the esophagus, stomach, and part of the small intestine

Question 10

What is an enama

Answer 10

medical procedure where a solution is introduced into the rectum through a tube

Question 11

What is a medicine that helps pass stool?

Answer 11

-laxatives and cathartics
–opiates are used

Question 12

What is manual disimpaction?

Answer 12

a procedure to remove hardened stool from the rectum

Question 13

Name all 5 bowl Diversions

Answer 13

• Jejunostomy
  -Ileostomy
  -right colostomy
  -transverse colostomy
  -left colostomy