Upper GI Conditions

Question 1

What is dysphagia?

Answer 1

Difficulty swallowing

Question 2

What causes dysphagia?
3 things

Answer 2

1. Mechanical obstruction
2. Neurologic Disorders
3. Muscular disorders

Question 3

Sensation of food being stuck in the throat, choking, and coughing are manifestations of?

Answer 3

Dysphagia

Question 4

What is the medical term for vomiting?

Answer 4

Emesis

Question 5

Involuntary or voluntary forceful ejection of chyme from stomach through the esophagus and out the mouth

Answer 5

Vomiting

Question 6

Increased intracranial pressure, severe pain, reverse peristalsis are causes of?

Answer 6

Vomiting

Question 7

What could indicate bile due to GI obstruction?

Answer 7

Yellow or green vomitus

Question 8

What could indicate content from lower intestine due to intestinal obstruction?

Answer 8

Deep brown vomitus

Question 9

Fluid, electrolyte, and pH imbalances could be caused by …

Answer 9

recurrent vomiting

Question 10

Where is vomiting coordinated?

Answer 10

The medulla

Question 11

Stomach section protrudes through an opening in the diaphragm toward the lung

Answer 11

Hiatal hernia

Question 12

Weakening of the diaphragm, muscle, trauma are causes of?

Answer 12

Hiatal hernia

Question 13

Indigestion, heartburn, frequent belching, nausea, chest pain are manifestations of?

Answer 13

Hiatal hernia

Question 14

Chyme or bile that periodically backs up from the stomach into the esophagus?

Answer 14

GERD

Question 15

Certain foods, alcohol, nicotine, certain medications are causes of?

Answer 15

GERD

Question 16

Heartburn, dry cough, and other symptoms confused with angina may warrant ruling out cardiac arrest are typically seen with?

Answer 16

GERD

Question 17

Inflammation of the stomach’s mucosal lining?

Answer 17

Gastritis

Question 18

Organisms via food/ water, meds, alcohol, stress are causes of?

Answer 18

Gastritis

Question 19

What is helicobacter pylori?

Answer 19

A type of bug that imbeds into the mucous layer; MOST COMMON CAUSE OF CHRONIC GASTRITIS

Question 20

What is the inflammation of the stomach and intestines, usually from infection or allergic reaction?

Answer 20

Gastroenteritis

Question 21

Ingestion, heartburn, epigastric pain, nausea/ vomiting are manifestations of?

Answer 21

Gastritis

Question 22

lesions affecting stomach lining or duodenum?

Answer 22

Peptic ulcer disease

Question 23

Certain medications, H. pylori infections, smoking, alcohol, stress are causes of?

Answer 23

Peptic ulcer disease?

Question 24

Excessive acid or H. pylori infections are associated with which type of ulcer?

Answer 24

Duodenal

Question 25

Epigastric pain that is relieved in the presence of food is associated with?

Answer 25

Duodenal ulcers

Question 26

Less frequent, but more deadly with pain that typically worsens with eating?

Answer 26

Gastric ulcers

Question 27

Develop because of a major physiological stressor on the body?

Answer 27

Stress ulcers

Question 28

Stress ulcers associated with burns

Answer 28

Curling's ulcers

Question 29

Stress ulcers associated with head injuries?

Answer 29

Cushing's ulcers

Question 30

Hemorrhaging is often the first indicator of?

Answer 30

Stress ulcers

Question 31

Ulcers frequently developing in the stomach and can form within hours of an event are?

Answer 31

Stress ulcers

Question 32

Hardened bile deposits/ calculi

Answer 32

Cholelithiasis (gallstones)

Question 33

What could obstruct bile flow and cause gallbladder rupture, pancreatitis

Answer 33

Cholelithiasis

Question 34

Inflammation or infection in the biliary system caused by calculi

Answer 34

Cholecystitis

Question 35

Biliary colic, abdominal distention, nausea, vomiting, jaundice fever are manifestations of?

Answer 35

Cholelithiasis