CSA Stage 1 (VIII)

1. Which of the following is not an enquiry into the history of weight loss in anorexia nervosa?

Can you describe your diet for me please? What do you eat fir breakfast, lunch and dinner?
How is your appetite?
Do you know how much you currently weigh?
Have you noticed any change in your weight recently?
Why have you decreased your calorie/food intake?
What was your weight before?
Do you exercise? What exactly do you do? How many times a week an for how many hours each session?

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After the surgery, the removed appendix is sent to the laboratory. This is routine to check for signs of cancer, but it more a precautionary measure and is rare to find serious problems
Key hole surgery is preferred, making recover rates quicker
Open surgery makes a single larger cut in the lower right hand side of the abdomen to remove the appendix
Key hole surgery involves 3 or 4 small incisions in your tummy, where a tube (pump gas to inflate abdomen), a laparoscope (tube with camera relaying images to monitor) and small surgical tools are used to remove the appendix
Carried out under local anaesthetic, via a laparoscopic surgery or open surgery
Open surgery uses dissolvable stitches or regular stitches that need to be removed
Laparoscopic surgery conclusion involves the closure of the incisions with dissolvable stitches. If regular stitches are used, they will need to be removed 7 - 10 days later by GP
Open surgery may involve making a larger cut (laparotomy) in the middle of the abdomen to examine organs or in cases where there are problems (e.g. peritonitis)
Open surgery required when appendix has already burst and formed a lump known as the appendix mass, when surgeon isn't very experienced with laparoscopic removal, or with people who have had previous abdominal surgery

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