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