Education & Training

 

AGA Education, Practice and Research

Focused Clincial Updates 2006

To receive full CME credit, you are required to complete the evaluation form and self-test for each chapter you complete. Upon completion of the evaluation form and test, a certificate with your name and number of credits you have claimed will be generated. You must print your certificate using the print function in your browser.

The objectives listed below are to be used when evaluating the program. After completing this program, each participant should be able to:

  • Identify how state of the art and emerging research will impact management of digestive conditions.
  • Review diagnostic and treatment options for patients with several digestive diseases.

 

GERD

Select one answer for each question. You may change your answers as many times as you need to until you click the "Submit" button located at the bottom of the test.

1. With regard to treatment of suspected GERD-related laryngitis:

Thirty days may be a sufficient therapeutic trial in this group

Treatment response with rabeprazole twice daily was more likely to result in symptom score improvement in patients with a positive 24-hour pH study

Laryngoscopy is not helpful in differentiating placebo and treatment response

All of the above

2. Prolonged relux monitoring:

Shows clearly that the addition of Bilitec testing can differentiate patients with erosive and non-erosive disease

An abnormal test identifies patients who will respond to a PPI

Response to a proton pump inhibitor given empirically predicts the results of pH monitoring

None of the above are correct

3. Which of the following are correct?

There is a positive association between control of intragastric acid and healing of all grades of erosive esophagitis

A positive relationship has been prospectively demonstrated between control of intragastric acid and healing of grades C and D erosive esophagitis

No clear association between control of intragatric pH and healing of erosive esophagitis can be demonstrated

Control of intraesophageal acid has no relationship to healing of erosive esophagitis

4. Which of the following is correct regarding the study of outcomes after anitreflux surgery?

Predictors of good outcome include male gender and abnormal esophageal acid exposure on pH study

Predictors of good outcome include female gender and abnormal esophageal acid exposure on pH study

Over 75% of patients report good or excellent outcomes

There were no predictors of positive outcomes for antireflux surgery