Acute Diarrhea Evaluation in Primary Care Acute Diarrhea luation in ...
Acute Diarrhea Evaluation in Primary Care Acute Diarrhea luation in ... Acute Diarrhea Evaluation in Primary Care Acute Diarrhea luation in ...
Developed vs. undeveloped countries • High prevalence of serious infectious • disease in underdeveloped areas • In developed countries, pain, fear, • explanations, & missed work • Most diarrhea in developed world • unexplained
Initial Evaluation • Evaluation primarily clinical – Low yield of diagnostic tests – Most illnesses selflimited limited – Deal with reason(s) for patient visit – Exclude chronic diarrhea, with flare – Consider causes not directly gastrointestinal – runner’s diarrhea; medication; colon – ischaemia
- Page 1 and 2: Acute Diarrhea Evaluation in Primar
- Page 3: Definition— —”Acute” • Pa
- Page 7 and 8: Initial evaluationdiagnostic poss
- Page 9 and 10: Food Poisoning Syndromes • Prefor
- Page 11 and 12: GI disease not related to food •
- Page 13 and 14: Gastroenteritis syndromes • Emesi
- Page 15 and 16: Calicivirus • 90% of epidemic gas
- Page 17 and 18: Rotavirus • Major illness in very
- Page 19 and 20: Traveller’s diarrhea • Usually
- Page 21 and 22: Foodrelated gastrointestinal infe
- Page 23 and 24: salmonella • Most common foodbo
- Page 25 and 26: Salmonella (continued) • Treatmen
- Page 27 and 28: E.coli O157:H7 (Enterohemorrhargic
- Page 29 and 30: Campylobacter jejuni • Common; ra
- Page 31 and 32: Clostridium difficile • No longer
Developed vs. undeveloped<br />
countries<br />
• High prevalence of serious <strong>in</strong>fectious<br />
• disease <strong>in</strong> underdeveloped areas<br />
• In developed countries, pa<strong>in</strong>, fear,<br />
• explanations, & missed work<br />
• Most diarrhea <strong>in</strong> developed world<br />
• unexpla<strong>in</strong>ed
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