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  1. Case 6-2019: A 29-Year-Old Woman with Nausea, Vomiting, and Diarrhea

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  2. Case 5: A 13-year-old Boy with Abdominal Pain and Diarrhea

    A 13-year-old boy presents to his primary care provider with a 5-day history of abdominal pain and a 2-day history of diarrhea and vomiting. He describes the quality of the abdominal pain as sharp, originating in the epigastric region and radiating to his back, and exacerbated by movement. Additionally, he has had several episodes of nonbloody, nonbilious vomiting and watery diarrhea. His ...

  3. Acute Gastroenteritis

    Acute gastroenteritis is a common infectious disease syndrome, causing a combination of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. There are more than 350 million cases of acute gastroenteritis in the United States annually and 48 million of these cases are caused by foodborne bacteria. ... Studies found that the use proton pump inhibitors ...

  4. Acute gastroenteritis: from guidelines to real life

    Acute gastroenteritis causes 1.5 million visits to primary care providers each year and 220,000 hospital admissions for children under the age of 5 years; ... Droperidol has been well studied as a postoperative antiemetic agent, but there are no studies on its efficacy in gastroenteritis related vomiting.105 ...

  5. Gastroenteritis in Children

    Acute gastroenteritis is defined as a diarrheal disease of rapid onset, with or without nausea, vomiting, fever, or abdominal pain. In the United States, acute gastroenteritis accounts for 1.5 ...

  6. Acute Infectious Gastroenteritis in Infancy and Childhood

    Acute infectious gastroenteritis is diagnosed on clinical grounds. Its leading manifestations are sudden loosening of stool consistency and increased stool frequency to more than three times per day (or more than two times per day beyond the patient's usual frequency), sometimes accompanied by vomiting or fever (6, 7).The main elements of the differential diagnosis in children are other ...

  7. Incidence, Etiology, and Severity of Acute Gastroenteritis Among

    Acute gastroenteritis (AGE), characterized by diarrhea, vomiting, fever, and abdominal pain, ... Past viral AGE burden studies used indirect methods, such as billing codes without laboratory confirmation of disease; relied on clinician-ordered diagnostic testing results, which can bias detection away from viral pathogens; ...

  8. Acute Diarrhea in Adults

    Postinfectious irritable bowel syndrome is a common sequela of acute gastroenteritis, occurring in 4% to 36% of patients depending on the infective pathogen, with a pooled prevalence of 11% in one ...

  9. Acute gastroenteritis

    Acute gastroenteritis is a common infectious disease syndrome, causing a combination of nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and abdominal pain. There are more than 350 million cases of acute gastroenteritis in the United States annually and 48 million of these cases are caused by foodborne bacteria. Traveler's diarrhea affects more than half of people ...

  10. PDF Acute Gastroenteritis: Adult

    Acute Gastroenteritis: AdultA. Gastrointestinal. Clinical Decision Tools for RNs with Additional Authorized Practice [RN(AAP)s] ate: June 9, 2022BackgroundGastroenteritis, also known as enteritis or gastroenterocolitis, is an inflammation of the stomach and intestines that manifests as anorexia, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea (Thomas, 2019 ...

  11. PDF Acute Gastroenteritis PedsCases Podcast

    2. Review the clinical presentation of gastroenteritis 3. Review the common causes of gastroenteritis 4. Develop an approach to the management of acute gastroenteritis Case Alright, let's begin the case. You are a third-year medical student doing your pediatric emergency rotation at Children's hospital and you meet Tommy, a 5-year old boy, with

  12. Etiology of acute gastroenteritis among children less than 5 ...

    The etiology of moderate to severe acute gastroenteritis (AGE) varies in different regions of the world and depends on multiple host and environmental factors [3-6]. Case-control studies have reported comprehensive data on the etiology of moderate to severe diarrhea from low-income countries in Africa and South Asia [3,5].

  13. Case Study on Acute Gastroenteritis

    However, acute gastroenteritis is still a frequent problem in the United States. Each year, gastroenteritis is responsible for about 1.5 million doctor visits, 200,000 hospital admissions, and 100 to 300 deaths. Acute gastroenteritis is considered one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide.

  14. Acute bacterial gastroenteritis: a study of adult patients with

    Objectives: To investigate the presenting clinical features of acute bacterial gastroenteritis in adult patients treated as outpatients in the emergency department (ED), and the pathogens responsible in this setting and population; and to identify the frequency with which positive stool culture result changes management. Method: This was a retrospective study of all patients who attended the ...

  15. Viral Gastroenteritis

    Acute infectious gastroenteritis is a common illness seen around the world. Viral pathogens cause most of these cases. Acute diarrheal disease is generally self-limiting in industrialized nations but can have significant morbidity for young and elderly patients. In underdeveloped countries, viral diarrheal diseases are a significant cause of death, especially in infants.[1][2] According to the ...

  16. Case Study: Salmonella Gastroenteritis in a 4-Month Old Infant

    Our case is a 4-month-old male who presents with gastroenteritis in the ED and evaluated for sepsis. Stool cultures were taken and resulted in a positive salmonella gastroenteritis diagnosis. Gastroenteritis. is a common presentation in infants and is often not infectious in etiology.We present this case because it is imperative to acknowledge ...

  17. Use of Open-Source Epidemic Intelligence for Infectious Disease

    After the invasion, syndromic reports increased; acute gastroenteritis (87.1% of reports) was the most common, followed by influenza-like illness (6.5%), fever of unknown origin (3.2%), and meningitis (3.2%). According to individual reports from June 2022 of acute gastroenteritis, many illnesses were identified as dysentery or suspected cholera.

  18. Half of Patients Show Prolonged IBS Post-Gastroenteritis

    In addition, most studies came from Europe and North America, with limited data from areas with a high prevalence of acute gastroenteritis, such as the Asia-Pacific region and Africa.

  19. Acute gastroenteritis in children

    Acute gastroenteritis accounts for millions of deaths each year in young children, mostly in developing communities. In developed countries it is a common reason for presentation to general practice or emergency departments and for admission to hospital. Dehydration, which may be associated with electrolyte disturbance and metabolic acidosis ...

  20. Acute Gastroenteritis: A Case Discussion

    Course in the Ward 2nd Hospital Day. Case Discussion. Definition • Infections of the gastrointestinal tract caused by bacterial, viral, or parasitic pathogens • Diarrheal disorders • Term used in public health setting • Diarrhea • 3 or more unusually watery stools passed in 24 hours WHO - Treatment of Diarrhea.