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S4 - ICM - Benjamin - Pt with Diarrhea
Ross University School of Medicine - Semester 4
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02/15/2010

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Term

3 or more loose stools/day

More than 200g of stool/day

Increase in frequency and fluidity of stool

 

All indicate what?

Definition
diarrhea
Term

What did you eat?

 

Vibrio

Definition
Seafood
Term

What did you eat?

 

Bacillus cereus

Definition

Reheated Rice

(remember, fried rice is premade and reheated)

Term

What did you eat?

 

Staph aureus

Definition
Mayo, custard, meats
Term

What did you eat?

 

Clostridium perfringens

Definition
Reheated meat
Term

What did you eat?

 

C. botilinism

Definition
Canned food
Term

What did you eat?

 

E. coli O157:H7

Definition
Undercooked meat
Term

What did you eat?

 

Salmonella

Definition
Poultry, eggs, meat
Term
Recent antibiotic use causing diarrhea points to which bug?
Definition
C. diff
Term

Your patient presents with diarrhea (obviously), abdominal tenderness. Sigmoidoscopy reveals pseudomembranous colitis.

 

What tests would you perform?

What would be the expected diagnosis?

What would be a good treatment?

Definition

Stool reveals C. diff toxins; therefore, that is your causative agent.

 

Stop antibiotics, fluid replacement, oral vanco/bacitracin

Term
What is the triad for Reactive Arthritis aka Reiter's Syndrome.
Definition

1. Urethritis

2. Conjuctivitis & Anterior uveitis

3. Arthritis

Term
What percentage of body weight loss is considered to be severe dehydration?
Definition
Greater than 10%
Term
See if you can picture the diarrhea decision wheel
Definition
[image]
Term
How would you expect a patient with Ingestive Diarrhea to present?
Definition

They're usually not very sick.

 

Caused by Megnesium, sorbitol, disaccharides

Term

How does a patient with Toxic Diarrhea present?

 

What are some usual causes of this?

Definition

Fever, chills, nausea, pain.

 

Vibrio, E.coli, shigella, Staph, bacillus

Term
Traveler's diarrhea is usually caused by...
Definition

ETEC

 

Also salmonella, campylobacter, shigellae, vibrio, etc.

Term

Child, watery diarrhea, South America, dehydration.

 

What is the causative agent?

Definition
Rotavirus
Term

Non-bloody "rice-water" stool after travel.

 

What is the bug?

Definition

Vibrio cholera

 

Recall that this is a comma-shaped bacteria.

Term

Water, explosive, cramps, N/V

later: fatty stool, bloating, flatulence, weight loss

 

What is the bug?

Definition
Giardia
Term
List 4 bugs that cause bloody diarrhea.
Definition

EHEC

Shigella (mucous + pus)

Campylobacter (pus)

Entamoeba hystolitica (liver)

Term
Very little diarrhea, feer, headache, bradycardia, lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly, rose spots on chest, reactive arthritis.
Definition
Salmonella typhi
Term
What are three malabsorptive diarrheas?
Definition
Whipples, Ciliac sprue, tropical sprue
Term
Carcinoid tumors, medullary carcinoma of the thyroid, VIPoma, ZE, parathyroid adenoma, and small cell carcinoma of the lung can all cause...
Definition
Hormonal diarrhea: watery stool with moderate to high volume.
Term
Bloody diarrhea WITHOUT steatorrhea can by caused by...?
Definition
Colonic diarrheas such as ulcerative colitis, diverticulitis, ischaemic colitis, carcinoma of the colon, radiation colitis.
Term
Cobblestone mucosa with creeping fat
Definition
Crohn's
Term
Friable (easy to crumble or break apart) mucosal pseudopolyps
Definition
Ulcerative colitis
Term
Picture the AIDS Diarrhea Chart
Definition
[image]
Term
Woman with diarrhea worse in the morning with crampy pain. Alternating diarrhea and constipation.
Definition
IBS
Term
What is common between Giardiasis, Cryptosporidum, Entamoeba Hystolitica and Cyslopora?
Definition

They all cause Persistent duration diarrhea.

 

Rota virus is acute

Ulcerative colitis is chronic

Term
Your patient comes into the ER exhibiting Kussmaul breathing. A family member says that the patient has had severe diarrhea for several days. What is causing the change in breathing? What is the treatment?
Definition

During diarrhea, you lose bicarbonate which leads to metabolic acidosis. Your body tries to compensate by producing respiratory alklyosis aka Kussmaul breathing.

 

Tx: replace exlyctrolytes and water.

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