NUR 2063 Exam 2 Study Guide
- Sharp abdominal pain LRQ - Subsides if it ruptures, increase if it escalates. Nausea,
vomiting, distension, bowel pattern changes, infection, inflammation, indicates of peritonitis
Answer Clinical manifestations - appendicitis
- Pink or brown urine, foamy urine - Causes renal failure - Caused by kidneys ability to excrete
waste and fluid decreased / kidney cant filter
Answer Clinical manifestations - glomerulonephritis term-4
- Systemic inflammatory response causing sepsis, acute cholecystitis
Answer Com- plication of perforated gallbladder
- Ulcers, gallstones, foreign objects, hernias, impacted stool, intussusception (Bowel sucked
into the next section), tumors, crohns disease
Answer Types of disorders causing mechanical bowel obstruction
- occult blood
Answer Caused by polyps, blood unable to be seen by the naked eye - Means there is bleeding located somewhere else in the digestive tract - FOBT
- Dysphagia
Answer difficulty, or painful swallowing
- Alcoholism
Answer Most common cause of chronic pancreatitis. 1 / 3
- Gallstones
Answer Most common cause of chronic pancreatitis.
- Esophageal ulcers, cancer, obstruction, inflammation of the esophageal well
Answer Serious complications of GERD
- proximal duodenum, antrum
Answer Most frequent location of peptic ulcers
- Ulcerative colitis - inflammation of the large intestine Crohns disease - inflammation of
the digestive tract
Diarrhea, bleeding ulcers, stomach pain, weight loss
Answer Review the inflammatory bowel disorders
- Infection from H-pylori and long term use of NSAIDs
Answer Review causes of peptic ulcer disease
- Upper abdominal pain, epigastric pain, sensation of fullness nausea, vom- itting, heartburn,
burping
Answer Clinical manifestations of chronic gastritis
- Medication abuse for NSAIDs, excessive smoking, and alcohol abuse
Answer -
What types of things put a patient at risk for developing acute gastritis?
- Upper abdominal pain, epigastric pain, sensation of fullness nausea, vomiting, heartburn, 2 / 3
burping, atrophy of gastric lining
Answer Manifestations of chronic gastritis
- Weakening diaphragm muscle, intrathoracic pressure, trauma, congenital defects
Answer Causes of hiatal hernia
- Caused by pressure on the abdomen and the inflammation from the peritoneum, and
muscle spasms
Answer What is the cause of a rigid abdomen in peritonitis
- Enuresis
Answer Involuntary urination by child 4-5 YOA - Psychological or structural cause - resolves itself
- stress incontinence
Answer Loss of urine from pressure exerted on the bladder - coughing, sneezing - occurs when the sphincter muscle of the bladder is weakened
- Postrenal failure occurs because of urinary tract obstruction
Answer Post intra renal conditions
- Prerenal failure is diminished renal blood flow, heart dysfunction - in- trarenal reduced
blood supply, hemolytic uremic syndrome, renal inflamma- tion, toxic injury
Answer Pre intra renal conditions
- Blood through renal artery, branches to smaller blood vessels to nephrons, exits through renal
- / 3
veins