NUR 6001 Exam 2 GI Questions With
Correct Answers
Liver - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-dullness is normal
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right upper quadrant
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Spleen - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-dullness is normal
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left upper quadrant
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Costovertebral angle - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-CVA tenderness can be a sign of
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kidney problems such as infection or stones
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Cholecystitis/ Cholelithiasis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Female, Fat, Forty
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Fever
elevated neutrophils, AST/ALT, amylase
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diagnose with gallbladder ultrasound
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severe epigastric or RUQ pain that is referred to the shoulder
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Murphys sign |
severe, dull or boring, constant pain, N/V, pleuritic pain and fever
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developing hours after meals, frequently at night awakening patients from sleep
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, Intestinal obstruction - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-severe, abrupt, spasm like paim
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referred to umbilicus and epigastrium
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gripping
Leaking abdominal aneurysm - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-steady, throbbing, midline
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pain over aneurysm that may radiate to back or flank
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described as tearing | |
Liver disease - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-viral hepatitis, alcohol related hepatitis,
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nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, fatty liver, cirrhosis, hepatic cysts and malignancy
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jaundice, hepatomegaly, cholestasis, portal HTN, ascites, encephalopathy
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Hiatal Hernia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-common, asymptomatic, sometimes severe
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symptoms of acid reflux, esophagitis in patients with GERD
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heartburn, belching, dysphagia, chest or abdominal pain, feeling of fullness
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Hepatitis disease - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-RUQ, jaundice, history of ETOH or
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drugs, sexual practice, travel, N/V, color of stool or urine, weight loss, abdominal
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distention, elevated AST/ALT, check hepatitis profile
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Correct Answers
Liver - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-dullness is normal
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right upper quadrant
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Spleen - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-dullness is normal
| | | | |
left upper quadrant
| |
Costovertebral angle - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-CVA tenderness can be a sign of
| | | | | | | | | | |
kidney problems such as infection or stones
| | | | | |
Cholecystitis/ Cholelithiasis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Female, Fat, Forty
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Fever
elevated neutrophils, AST/ALT, amylase
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diagnose with gallbladder ultrasound
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severe epigastric or RUQ pain that is referred to the shoulder
| | | | | | | | | |
Murphys sign |
severe, dull or boring, constant pain, N/V, pleuritic pain and fever
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developing hours after meals, frequently at night awakening patients from sleep
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, Intestinal obstruction - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-severe, abrupt, spasm like paim
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referred to umbilicus and epigastrium
| | | |
gripping
Leaking abdominal aneurysm - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-steady, throbbing, midline
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pain over aneurysm that may radiate to back or flank
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described as tearing | |
Liver disease - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-viral hepatitis, alcohol related hepatitis,
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nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, fatty liver, cirrhosis, hepatic cysts and malignancy
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jaundice, hepatomegaly, cholestasis, portal HTN, ascites, encephalopathy
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Hiatal Hernia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-common, asymptomatic, sometimes severe
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symptoms of acid reflux, esophagitis in patients with GERD
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heartburn, belching, dysphagia, chest or abdominal pain, feeling of fullness
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Hepatitis disease - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-RUQ, jaundice, history of ETOH or
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drugs, sexual practice, travel, N/V, color of stool or urine, weight loss, abdominal
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distention, elevated AST/ALT, check hepatitis profile
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