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GI Assessment - ANSWER ✔✔◦Swallowing, indigestion,
eructation(belching)
◦Nausea and vomiting
◦ Appearance of emesis
◦ Medications:
NSAID's
Laxatives
Opioids
,◦ Infections:
H. pylori
◦ Pain
◦ Weight changes
◦ Bowel movements:
Frequency, appearance
◦ Auscultation/Palpation/ Percussion
Dysphagia - ANSWER ✔✔Difficulty swallowing
Odynophagia - painful swallowing
Begins with food and progresses to liquids.
Usually a neuromuscular dysfunction/problem with cranial nerves
Puts pts at risk for aspiration
Dysphagia Diagnostics - ANSWER ✔✔Barium swallow test and xray
, Allows to see where food/liquid is going.
Dysphagia Treatment - ANSWER ✔✔Speech therapy retrains pts
how to swallow.
Thickened liquids
Pureed food
PEG tubes
GERD - ANSWER ✔✔A problem with the tone of the lower
esophageal sphincter allows stomach acid to regurgitate into the
esophagus
.Gastroparesis (delayed emptying of stomach) will exacerbate GERD.
GERD causes Metaplasia of the esophageal cells and can cause Barret
esophagus and become cancer
S/S of GERD - ANSWER ✔✔Dysphagia
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