Cholecystitis
Activity
e-Learning Module
e-Learning Module
In this module you will be introduced to the pathophysiology of acute cholecystitis and other diseases related to cholelithiasis and understand the role of anatomy in determining the disease process.
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).
- Explain the rationale for utilizing various diagnostic modalities in the evaluation of abdominal pain: Laboratory: CBC, amylase, electrolytes, BUN, creatinine, glucose, urinalysis, beta-HCG, liver profile.
- Explain the rationale for utilizing various diagnostic modalities in the evaluation of abdominal pain: Diagnostic imaging: Flat and upright abdominal radiographs, upright chest X-ray, ultrasound, CT scan abdomen and pelvis, GI contrast radiography, angiography.
- Explain the rationale for utilizing various diagnostic modalities in the evaluation of abdominal pain: Special diagnostic/Interventional techniques: upper endoscopy, procto-sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, laparoscopy.
- Gallstones.
- Cholecystitis
- Biliary Colic
- Choledocolithiasis
- Colangitis
Assessments
e-Learning Module Completion
Tags
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Surgery Rotation
Discipline
Surgery
MCC Presentations
Acute Abdominal Pain
Jaundice
Vomiting and/or Nausea
McMaster Program Competencies
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
MeSH
Cholecystitis [C06.130.564.263]
Cholelithiasis [C06.130.409]
