Abdominal aortic aneurysms
Activity
e-Learning Module
e-Learning Module
In this module you will learn the etiology and pathophysiology of aortic aneurysms and their treatment.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Surgery Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Characterization of abdominal pain (location, severity, character, pattern).
- Temporal sequence of abdominal pain (onset, frequency, duration, progression).
- Alleviating and exacerbating factors of abdominal pain (position, food, activity, medications).
- Associated signs and symptoms of abdominal pain (nausea vomiting, fever, chills, anorexia, wt. loss, cough, dysphagia, dysuria/frequency, altered bowel function diarrhea, constipation, obstipation, hematochezia, melena, etc.).
- Pertinent medical history: prior surgery or illness, associated conditions (pregnancy, menstrual cycle, diabetes, atrial fibrillation or cardiovascular disease, immunosuppression). Medications: anticoagulation, steroids etc. (for abdominal pain).
Assessments
e-Learning Module Completion
Tags
Basic Sciences
Etiology
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Surgery Rotation
Discipline
Surgery
MCC Presentations
Acute Abdominal Pain
McMaster Program Competencies
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
MeSH
Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal [C14.907.109.139.075]
