is a common characteristic of patients diagnosed with Crohn Disease.

During a follow-up appointment at the clinic, your 6 month postoperative partial gastrectomy patient is preparing to leave and states “I’ll see you in 6 months for my 1 year follow-up appointment.”  Which of the following statements is most appropriate for you to add before your patient leaves the room?

Categorize each lab that would be ordered and monitored related to the diagnosis. All choices will be used 

While admitting a patient for a GI disorder, you begin discussing her medications and come to a startling conclusion when your patient shares that she has been taking all of her prescription medications together at the same time just before going to bed every night.  Select the following medications that are problematic when taken together.  SELECT ALL THAT APPLY 

Following a UGI study, you know you have provided the proper amount of patient education when you patient is able to verbalize the important statements below which she may experience as a result of the contrast medium of barium sulfate that was used for her UGI study.

Which of the following foods should be avoided by a patient with cholecystitis or a post-surgical patient recovering from a cholecystectomy? Select all that apply. 

Match the disease to the description. 

While assessing a middle-aged patient at the clinic, you ask your patient when he had his last bowel movement.  He reluctantly responds that he regularly has abdominal cramping and rectal bleeding with 15-20 liquid stools daily which contain blood.  You know that these symptoms are characteristic of which of the following diseases listed below?

This surgical procedure to strengthen the lower esophageal sphincter (LES), as relaxation of the LES is thought to be the cause of GERD, can be performed to strengthen the sphincter by wrapping a layer of the upper stomach wall around the sphincter and esophagus to lessen the possibility of acid reflux.

A patient with a longtime history of diverticulosis presents to the ED.  Your patient states that he has been suffering with his most recent symptoms below for the past 4 days.  Choose the symptoms below which lead you to believe your patient, with the initial diagnosis of diverticulosis, has progressed to diverticulitis.    SELECT ALL THAT APPLY