Medical management of acute pancreatitis - initial management of acute pancreatitis
Medical management of acute pancreatitis based on the revised Atlanta classification and as per the severity of acute pancreatitis (Systemic inflammatory response syndrome as well as determinant based classification) is a complex topic and here, you can learn it from the most experienced medical gastroenterologists in the field in India, Dr. Aniruddha Phadke from Lilavati hospital and research center, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The video gives you everything on acute pancreatitis - etiology, signs and symptoms, and treatment. It is a nice overview on the clinical presentation, differential diagnosis, severity scoring systems as well as management and treatment of acute pancreatitis.
Acute pancreatitis is a commonly seen disease in the surgical outpatient department as well as in medicine. Dr. Phadke takes you on a journey in understanding the basics of this fascinating disease right from the definition of acute pancreatitis to the etiology or the causes of acute pancreatitis to its classification which has undergone a world of change since the Atlanta classification in 1992. With the Modified Marshall scoring system coming up for severity assessment, the revised Atlanta classification of acute pancreatitis 2012 is the best version so far.
This video on pancreatitis deals with the questions such as "What is pancreatitis?", Definition of pancreatitis, phases, and severity important for the management of acute pancreatitis and the nomenclature of various phases as well as types of pancreatitis such as interstitial edematous pancreatitis, acute necrotizing pancreatitis, acute necrotic collection, acute peripancreatic fluid collection, walled-off necrosis and so on. The current management of acute pancreatitis also relies on pancreatitis phases, which has also been discussed in this video.
The talk then focuses on the management of acute pancreatitis in the first 72 hours and covers all the topics such as ERCP for acute pancreatitis, what fluids to give in acute pancreatitis and at what rate, what medications to give, when to suspect abdominal compartment syndrome and how to manage it, how to assess the patient clinically and plan treatment, when to give or not to give antibiotics and so on. Hence, have a look at the video as it pours on you the 30 years of experience of this seasoned medical gastroenterologist on this complex topic. I am sure that the video will clear all the controversies in the treatment of acute pancreatitis.