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What are the age related variations
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check them for choking and swallowing. Older people you need to look at their food. Children you assess the same thing. And check the movement of food
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what is one the first questions to ask during a gastrointestinal assessment?
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Any past histories such as gastric reflex disease, if they smoke, and etc.
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What kind of things are caused by smoking in the GI problems
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Stomach cancers, pancreatic cancer, and etc.
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Why is alcohol consumption important to GI?
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Affect the liver because the liver is working hard to clean out the alcohol. It can causes pancreatitis and liver scelriosis.
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What is GERD?
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None as gastric reflex disease it causes damage to the mucous membranes to the esophagus caused by stomach acids
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What causes cardiac arrest in Kidney failure patients that stopped dialysis
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Too much potassium build up
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Emesis
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Cough up coffee ground things could mean a GI bleed
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How much saliva a day do we produce?
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1 liter
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If distension is present what is the first question you ask?
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You ask them if they are passing gas.
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What color is rectal bleed
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Bright red on the stool
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What is color is a GI bleed
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Generally black
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What happens with liver cirrhosis
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People can have stomach distension due to severe scarring of the liver. Can be caused by alcohol and other harmful factors
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Ascites
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Fluid building inside the abdomen. its cause is because the liver stops working.
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What percent can the liver start showing sounds that there is a problem?
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65%
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Light palpitation means
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Superficial or about 2 cm.
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What are you listening of the renal artery?
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You are assessing perfusion.
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you are assessing perfusion because
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It is to detect aortic aneurysm. Its if you hear a whooshy sounds. Which is no beuno.
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SLide 54
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Quadrants of their underlying organs
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Palpation
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Using the pal mar surface you make circular motions to fill for abnormalities.
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With Palpation
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lightly do this for assessing for tenderness and observe for facial expressions.
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McBurney's Sign
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Is a sign for acute appendicitis.
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Illiopsoas Muscle test
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Is appendicitis is suspected
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Obturator muscle test
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If the appendix ruptured or pelvic abscess suspected
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Reveiw the skin anatomy
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adhkladh
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Types of skins lesions
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Primary secondary and vascular skin lesions
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what can thinning of the hair could mean
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Hyperthyroidism, malnutrition, or circulatory problems.
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what is the cause of pressure ulcer
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lack of circulation and mobility
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What is the average out break of an ulcer
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1-2 days
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what is the average day of recovery of an ulcer
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7-14 days
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What contributes to the development of pressure ulcers?
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Immobilization, nutrition, incontinence, perfusion circulation, how we move the patient, friction and sheer. Skin integrity
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edicare does not what
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Compensate for pressure ulcers in a long term care facility. This causes this the health care facility to step up their game.
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Pressure ulcer classification stage 1
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Intact skin non blancheable redness
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Pressure ulcer classification stage 2
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Partial thickness loss of skin. Its an open ulcer that is like a blister
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Pressure ulcer classification stage 3
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It is when the ulcer is subcutaneous fat that is visible
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Pressure ulcer classification stage 4
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Is when an ulcer has an exposure of a bone, tissue, or muscle.
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