PA Boards 26: Appendicitis

Medgeeks with Andrew Reid

Medgeeks

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 996 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2014

⏱️ 18 minutes

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This is a complete overview of appendicitis. I will walk you through the pathogensis, symptoms, physical exam findings, labs, imaging, and treatment of choice. Let's make this as easy as possible for you, the physician assistant student, to diagnosis appendicitis. Do not miss this life threatening disease!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 26 of the physician assistant boards
0:04.8	dot-com podcast and today we're going to talk about appendicitis.
0:08.9	Pendicitis is one of those tricky diagnostic dilemmas because a lot of times a penicitis
0:16.0	doesn't present the classic way that we wanted to present but we're going to go
0:20.5	over all of the details we're going to go over what causes it we're going to go over all of the details we're going to go over the
0:23.9	science the symptoms of physical exam the diagnostic utility of imaging and
0:28.8	the treatment of choice but before we go ahead and get started with appendicitis, I just want to go ahead and give you
0:35.8	guys an update on the website. So the website I have finished hematology, so I have essentially gone over all of the subjects for the pants
0:44.9	blueprint for you guys and there's only three remaining there's psychiatry
0:50.4	ID and dermatology D. meaning infectious disease.
0:55.0	So what's gonna happen is I'm gonna go over psychiatry first and then I'm gonna go over
1:00.0	ID and then dermatology and I'm gonna go in that order until we finally complete the entire
1:05.2	Pants blueprint for you guys.
1:07.2	So that's a good study aid that you guys can find over at my website at physician assistant boards.com.
1:14.1	Just go to the exam prep section and you'll find all of the
1:17.7	the content organized by the organ systems.
1:20.6	So hopefully that'll help you guys out.
1:22.4	And then once I finish that whole content,
1:25.0	I'm going to start on a new little project for you guys.
1:27.8	Still free.
1:28.5	Everything's going to be free on the website right now.
1:30.6	So just, you know, anything that you want to see or anything that I can
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