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What is dysphagia? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔difficulty swallowing
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What are the main clinical consequences of dysphagia? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔> malnutrition
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> aspiration
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Clinical manifestations of dysphagia - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔>
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Pain with swallowing
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> Choking/aspiration
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> Malnutrition
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> Weight loss
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Treatments for dysphagia - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔> "Thickener"
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> Aspiration precautions
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> Positioning
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> Surgical correction
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Esophageal pain etiology - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Two types:
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> Pyrosis (heartburn)
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,> Pain in the middle of the chest
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Mimics Angina Pectoris |\ |\




May radiate |\




Pathogenesis of esophageal pain - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Reflux
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of gastric contents (acid) into esophagus
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> Pyrosis
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Esophageal distention |\




Powerful esophageal muscle contraction |\ |\ |\




> Chest pain
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Clinical manifestations of esophageal pain - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔> Chest pain |\ |\




> Shortness of breath
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> Retrosternal burning
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> Water brash (regurgitation of sour fluid or tasteless saliva into
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the mouth-hypersalivation)
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> Nausea
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Esophageal pain treatment - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔> prevention
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> causative agent specific
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,Diarrhea etiology - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Increase in frequency
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and fluidity of bowel movements
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Acute
> Infection
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> Stress
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> Food allergy
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> Leakage of stool around an impaction
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Chronic
> Greater than 4 weeks
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> Malabsorption
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> Chronic infection
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Pathogenesis of diarrhea - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Motility
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disturbance
> Decreased contact time of chyme with small intestine
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> Absorptive capacity in large intestine is exceeded
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Exudative
> Inflammatory processes
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> Mucous
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, > Blood
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> Protein
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Secretory
> Toxins that stimulate intestinal fluid secretion and impair
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absorption
> Staphylococcus aureus
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Osmotic
> Increased amounts of poorly absorbed solutes in the intestine
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cause sodium and water influx
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Etiology of constipation - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔> Small,
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infrequent, or difficult bowel movements
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> Fewer then 3 stools per week
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> Low fiber diet
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> Lack of exercise
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> Slow peristalsis (elderly, postoperatively, narcotics)
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> Can lead to impaction
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Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) etiology - cause -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔> Backward flow of gastric contents into
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esophagus

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