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What is syphilis?
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What is tetanus?
What are the two responses of the immune system?
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What are the two phases of the metabolic response to trauma?
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What is the body's main source of energy?
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What hormones help provide glucose and increase Na and water retention?
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What happens to the body in case of prolonged trauma or starvation?
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Why is nutritional therapy important for surgical patients?
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What are the diagnostic points for malnutrition?
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What is the body's source of energy?
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What is the effect of prolonged trauma or starvation on the body?
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What are the two phases of metabolic response to trauma?
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Study Notes
Medical Topics Summary
- Syphilis is a bacterial infection caused by Treponema pallidum, transmitted through sexual contact, direct contact, or mother-to-fetus. It is classified into early and late stages, with primary and secondary symptoms that can lead to tertiary syphilis.
- Anthrax is an infection caused by Bacillus anthracis, transmitted through contact with animal tissues or spores. It can cause cutaneous anthrax, respiratory anthrax, and gastrointestinal anthrax, with a high mortality rate.
- Tetanus is an acute bacterial infection caused by Clostridium tetani, which produces a neurotoxin that results in prolonged skeletal muscle contraction. It is transmitted through contamination of a wound and can cause severe spasms, lockjaw, and asphyxia.
- The immune system has two responses: innate and adaptive. Innate immunity includes physical and chemical barriers, complement, and inflammation, while adaptive immunity involves T and B lymphocytes and produces memory cells.
- Hypersensitivity reactions are excessive immune responses, classified into four types, varying in severity from mild to life-threatening. Type I hypersensitivity involves mast cell degranulation and can cause allergic rhinitis, asthma, eczema, urticaria, and systemic anaphylaxis.
- Type II hypersensitivity is antibody-mediated and directed against cellular or extracellular matrix antigens, leading to cellular destruction, functional loss, or tissue damage.
- Type III hypersensitivity is mediated by the formation of antigen-antibody aggregates called immune complexes and can trigger the classical complement pathway, leading to tissue damage in various organs.
- Type IV hypersensitivity is T cell-mediated and produces an inflammatory reaction against exogenous and endogenous antigens, causing contact dermatitis, autoimmune diseases, and transplant rejection.
- Immunodeficiency is a state where the immune system fails to fight infections or cancer, caused by acquired or primary factors such as HIV infection, environmental factors, nutrition, or genetic disorders such as severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID).
- Wounds can be open or closed, classified based on depth, and can heal by primary, secondary, or tertiary intention. Wound healing involves three phases: clot formation, inflammatory phase, proliferative phase, and remodeling phase.
- Surgical wound classification includes clean, clean-contaminated, contaminated, and dirty/infected wounds, with different management strategies such as cleaning, debridement, and skin closure without tension.
- Scar types include atrophic, hypertrophic, and keloid scars, which can result from wound healing complications such as prolonged inflammation, unfavorable wound site, or tension. Scar management can involve excision and resuturing.
Metabolic Response to Trauma and Nutritional Support for Surgical Patients
- Metabolic response to trauma refers to the body's reaction to injury or impact, such as surgery, burn, or sepsis.
- The metabolic response consists of two phases: Ebb and Flow. In the Ebb phase, the body tries to decrease energy consumption, characterized by an increase in pulse rate, respiratory rate, cardiac output, and hyperthermia.
- The Flow phase consists of two sub-phases: Catabolic and Anabolic. The Catabolic phase is characterized by a decrease in cardiac output, hypotension, weak pulse, decrease in O2 consumption, and hypothermia.
- The body needs glucose for energy, which is obtained through glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis in the liver. Cortisol, aldosterone, and ADH hormones help provide glucose and increase Na and water retention.
- The body has three energy sources: glycogen in the liver, body fat, and protein in skeletal muscle.
- In case of prolonged trauma or starvation, the body starts cannibalizing itself, leading to a decrease in body weight, body fat, skeletal muscle wasting, and an increase in glucose in the blood.
- Nutritional therapy can be given orally, enterally (through the gastrointestinal route), or parenterally (through the venous system) to prevent or treat malnutrition.
- Malnourished patients make poor surgical candidates, and surgery causes a stress response that leads to hypermetabolic or catabolic response. Malnutrition increases the risk of post-operative complications.
- Nutritional methods include oral nutritional supplements, nasogastric tube feeding, gastrostomy feeding, jejunal feeding, and parenteral nutrition.
- Rapid recovery after surgery requires a decrease in Nil By Mouth time before surgery, carbohydrate loading before surgery, minimal surgery, rapid feeding after surgery, and early mobilization.
- Diagnostic points for malnutrition include BMI < 20 kg/m2, weight loss > 10% of body weight over the last 3 months, and albumin serum level < 30gm/L (in the absence of hepatic or renal disease).
- Enteral nutrition can be started when bowel function returns, starting with oral clear liquids. If the patient cannot eat enough for 5-7 days, enteral nutrition should be started. Parenteral nutrition is indicated when enteral feeding is not possible, and it can be given through a peripheral or central vein. Complications of enteral and parenteral nutrition include nausea, vomiting, malabsorption, diarrhea, hepatic steatosis, cholestasis, and gastrointestinal atrophy.
Metabolic Response to Trauma and Nutritional Support for Surgical Patients
- Metabolic response to trauma refers to the body's reaction to injury or impact, such as surgery, burn, or sepsis.
- The metabolic response consists of two phases: Ebb and Flow. In the Ebb phase, the body tries to decrease energy consumption, characterized by an increase in pulse rate, respiratory rate, cardiac output, and hyperthermia.
- The Flow phase consists of two sub-phases: Catabolic and Anabolic. The Catabolic phase is characterized by a decrease in cardiac output, hypotension, weak pulse, decrease in O2 consumption, and hypothermia.
- The body needs glucose for energy, which is obtained through glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis in the liver. Cortisol, aldosterone, and ADH hormones help provide glucose and increase Na and water retention.
- The body has three energy sources: glycogen in the liver, body fat, and protein in skeletal muscle.
- In case of prolonged trauma or starvation, the body starts cannibalizing itself, leading to a decrease in body weight, body fat, skeletal muscle wasting, and an increase in glucose in the blood.
- Nutritional therapy can be given orally, enterally (through the gastrointestinal route), or parenterally (through the venous system) to prevent or treat malnutrition.
- Malnourished patients make poor surgical candidates, and surgery causes a stress response that leads to hypermetabolic or catabolic response. Malnutrition increases the risk of post-operative complications.
- Nutritional methods include oral nutritional supplements, nasogastric tube feeding, gastrostomy feeding, jejunal feeding, and parenteral nutrition.
- Rapid recovery after surgery requires a decrease in Nil By Mouth time before surgery, carbohydrate loading before surgery, minimal surgery, rapid feeding after surgery, and early mobilization.
- Diagnostic points for malnutrition include BMI < 20 kg/m2, weight loss > 10% of body weight over the last 3 months, and albumin serum level < 30gm/L (in the absence of hepatic or renal disease).
- Enteral nutrition can be started when bowel function returns, starting with oral clear liquids. If the patient cannot eat enough for 5-7 days, enteral nutrition should be started. Parenteral nutrition is indicated when enteral feeding is not possible, and it can be given through a peripheral or central vein. Complications of enteral and parenteral nutrition include nausea, vomiting, malabsorption, diarrhea, hepatic steatosis, cholestasis, and gastrointestinal atrophy.
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Test your medical knowledge with this quiz on various topics such as syphilis, anthrax, tetanus, the immune system, hypersensitivity reactions, immunodeficiency, wound healing, and surgical wound classification. Learn about the different stages and symptoms of syphilis, the types of anthrax infections, the neurotoxin produced by tetanus, and the two responses of the immune system. Test your understanding of hypersensitivity reactions and their classification, as well as the types of scars that can result
