Biliary Disease: Treatment Options (Nursing)

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.