Answer
1) Acute Pancreatitis
2) Cutaneous sign
- Grey Turner sign (bluish discoloration of flank)
- Cullen sign (bluish discoloration of periumbilical area)
3) use the mnemonic "I GET SMASHED"
- Idiopathic is the MOST common aetiology
- Gall stone is the most common KNOWN aetiology
- Ethanol (alcohol consumption)
- Traumatic pancreatic injury
- Scorpion bite
- Mumps
- Autoimmune disease
- Steroid
- Hypercalcaemia/ lipidemia/trygeliceridemia and hypothermia
- ERCP
- Drugs
4) Complication of acute pancreatitis
a) Systemic
o Shock, cardiac arrythmia
o ARDS
o Renal failure
o DIC
o Hypoglycaemia, hyperglycaemia, hyperlipidaemia
o Paralytic ileus
o Visual distrubance, confusion, irritability, encephalopathy
o Subcutaneous fat necrosis, arthralgia
b) Local
o Acute fluid collection
o Sterile/infected pancreatic necrosis
o Pancreatic abscess
o Pseudocyst
o Pancreatic ascites
o Pancreatic effusion
o Portal/ splenic vein thrombosis
o Pseudoaneurysm
5) Score for assesment of severity
- Modified Glasgow score
- Ranson criteria
- APACHE II
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