00:00 Now what do we do for treating cholecystitis? Well, if it's not infected the first thing is dietary changes. 00:06 We're going to encourage the patient to limit dairy because it's got a lot of fat. 00:10 Wanted to let dairy fried foods or any foods with higher fat that stimulates the patient's gallbladder. 00:17 Now the amount and types of food may vary somewhat between patients, but for sure high fat foods are usually the trigger. 00:26 What if it progresses, now it is acute or it's infected. 00:30 Were going to need to treat the patient with antibiotics and have to consider removing the gallbladder. 00:36 Now cholecystectomy means ectomy means removal of the gallbladder. 00:42 So they do that with either a laparoscopic procedure or they'll do with an open abdominal surgery. 00:48 Laparoscopic is all done with scopes and they can kind of cut it up and pull it out. 00:53 But if you have an open abdominal surgery, then there has to be made an abdominal incision. 00:58 It's a little rougher for the patient to recover from.
The lecture Biliary Disease: Treatment Options (Nursing) by Prof. Lawes is from the course Gallstones and Cholecystitis: Diagnosis (Nursing).
If a client is suffering from acute cholecystitis which treatments will they undergo? Select all that apply.
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