1. The nurse should assess for an important early indicator of acute pancreatitis, which is a prolonged and elevated level of:

2. Bile is stored in the:

3. A patient is diagnosed with gallstones in the bile ducts. The nurse knows to review the results of blood work for a:

4. A patient with calculi in the gallbladder is said to have:

5. An action not associated with insulin is the:

6. The obstruction of bile flow due to cholelithiasis can interfere with the absorption of:

7. The major stimulus for increased bicarbonate secretion from the pancreas is:

8. Mild acute pancreatitis is characterized by:

9. The diagnostic procedure of choice for cholelithiasis is:

10. Clinical manifestations associated with a tumor of the head of the pancreas include:

11. Nursing measures for pain relief for acute pancreatitis include:

12. With pancreatic carcinoma, insulin deficiency is suspected when the patient evidences:

13. Clinical manifestations of common bile duct obstruction include all of the following except:

14. Chronic pancreatitis, commonly described as autodigestion of the pancreas, is often not detected until what percentage of the exocrine and endocrine tissue is destroyed?

15. A major symptom of pancreatitis that brings the patient to medical care is:

16. Zollinger–Ellison tumors are associated with hypersecretion of:

17. A nurse should monitor blood glucose levels for a patient who is diagnosed as having hyperinsulinism. A value inadequate to sustain normal brain function is:

18. The nurse knows that a patient with low blood sugar would have a blood glucose level of:

19. Pharmacologic therapy is frequently used to dissolve small gallstones. It takes about how many months of medication with UDCA or CDCA for stones to dissolve?

20. The risk for pancreatic cancer is directly proportional to:

21. Statistics show that there is a greater incidence of gallbladder disease for women who are: