PA Boards 04: Dyspepsia

Medgeeks with Andrew Reid

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🗓️ 9 November 2013

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Epigastric pain and what to do about it?

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0:00.0	Hey what's up guys and welcome to episode number four of the Physician
0:03.6	assistant boards.com podcast and I just want to thank everybody for all of the
0:08.0	support and all of the downloads. I want to direct your attention really
0:11.8	quickly to Twitter.
0:13.0	If you guys have a Twitter, go ahead and follow me at PA
0:15.6	underscore boards and if you have any topics, any suggestions or anything you
0:19.9	want me to present on this podcast, then go ahead and leave me a tweet and I'll go ahead and
0:24.3	really try and answer everybody's questions. All right, so let's get right to it. Today's topic,
0:31.2	we're going to be speaking about dyspepsia. So what is dyspepsia?
0:35.4	Well, it can be a few things. It's either epigastric pain, early satiety, and or post-prandial fullness. Now you need one of the above symptoms, one out of
0:46.2	the three to really make the diagnosis of dyspepsia. But depending on what guideline you want
0:51.2	to follow, there's going to be varying definitions, time
0:53.7	durations to really adequately classify somebody with dyspepsia.
0:58.7	Don't get too hung up on the specifics because there really isn't a agreed upon universal definition.
1:03.0	But we're going to try and keep things simple here.
1:05.0	So we're going to make our own little definition and we're going to say
1:08.0	dyspepsia is a non-specific
1:11.0	is a non-specific epigastric discomfort that's present for a few weeks.
1:15.0	All right, but there's something you really should be aware of.
1:18.0	This is very common.
1:19.0	About one quarter of the population is going to be affected by dyspepsia every year.
1:24.8	And the interesting fact, about 70% of those patients will not have a diagnosis.
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