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Pancreatitis treatment -No oral intake: IV fluids
-opioid analgesics: morphine sulfate
-cholecystectomy
Myocardial Infarction- STEMI -ST elevation in EKG
-MI has traveled through all three layers of heart
wall
Myocardial Infarction- Non STEMI Depressed ST
Costochrondritis -inflammation of rib cartilage
- lasts only a short while after exercise
Peritonitis Inflammation of serous membrane
Cause: infection by perforation (bowel, appendix,
etc)
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S/S: Widespread abdominal pain, Peritonitis
rebound tenderness, rigid abdomen,
dehydration
"Left shift" and high WBC
Appendicitis Pain, tenderness upon pressure of lower left
quadrant, fever
S/S: Epigastric Pain, Jaundice, Gall Cholelithiasis
stones
Fair, Fat, Female, Fertile and over
Forty
Cholecystits gallstone stuck in the cystic duct
RUQ pain, + Murphy's sign, Radiating Cholecystits
pain to the right lower shoulder, Test
for pancreatic enzymes in order to
rule out pancreatitis
Pancreatitis bile duct obstruction, digestive enzymes eating at
pancreas
Angina Pectoris Chest pain caused by reversible myocardial
ischemia
Stable angina Coronary artery luminal narrowing, symptom
occurrence during exertion, ST segment
depression on ECG?
Unstable Angina chest pain at rest or chest pain of increasing
frequency
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