vomiting
Let an agent explain vomiting and its causes in general terms from clinical sources, identify warning signs that need urgent care, describe management approaches, and route personal questions to clinicians.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Help Warning signs first.
Urgent
Emergency signs.
Urgent
Urgent.
- Which signs, such as vomiting blood, fecal vomiting, severe pain, confusion or signs of dehydration, need emergency care? action
- Is the user describing such signs, which need emergency services now? boundary
Care
When to see a clinician.
Care
Care.
- When should vomiting be assessed by a clinician, in general terms? provenance
- Is the user asking about their own or a child symptoms, which need a clinician? boundary
Understand The sign.
Mechanism
Mechanism.
Mechanism
Mechanism.
- How does the vomiting reflex work, and what triggers it? definition
- Is the question about vomiting, regurgitation or nausea? boundary
Causes
Causes.
Causes
Causes.
- What causes vomiting, from infections and pregnancy to obstruction and psychological factors? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific cause? action
Manage Management.
Self-care
Self-care.
Self-care
Self-care.
- What general self-care such as rehydration is advised for mild vomiting, per health services? action
- Which references are standard? provenance
Treatment
Treatment.
Treatment
Treatment.
- How do clinicians treat vomiting and its causes, including antiemetics, in general terms? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Context Special groups.
Pregnancy
Pregnancy.
Pregnancy
Pregnancy.
- What are morning sickness and hyperemesis gravidarum, and when is help needed? provenance
- Which entry fits hyperemesis gravidarum? action
Children
Children and animals.
Children
Children.
- How does vomiting differ in infants, children and pets, and when is it urgent? provenance
- Which entry fits paediatric gastroenteritis? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.KNW
- Other names and narrower kinds
- fecal vomiting, psychogenic vomiting, hematemesis, hyperemesis, chronic vomiting, glowing vomit, Projectile vomiting, anticipatory vomiting, coffee ground vomiting
What it is Filled
The forceful expulsion of stomach contents through the mouth, a clinical sign and health problem with many causes including infections, food poisoning, motion sickness, pregnancy, medications, migraine, bowel obstruction and psychological factors as in psychogenic vomiting, with serious forms such as hematemesis, vomiting blood, fecal vomiting in bowel obstruction, hyperemesis in pregnancy and chronic vomiting; vomiting causes dehydration and electrolyte loss and can signal emergencies.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain vomiting and its causes in general terms from clinical sources, identify warning signs that need urgent care, describe management approaches, and route personal questions to clinicians.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Reflex mechanism
- Many causes
- Dehydration risk
- Red flag forms
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Give a diagnosis or recommend medicines, including anti-emetics, in place of a clinician.
- Advise inducing vomiting, which recognised guidance no longer supports.
- Treat repeated self-induced vomiting as a weight management method rather than routing the person to care.
- Dismiss persistent vomiting in an infant, a pregnant person or an older adult as minor.
Only with a human decision
- Any decision about medication, fluids or hospital care for a person requires human judgment.
- Responding to signs of an eating disorder requires human involvement.
May
- Explain the common causes of vomiting and what warning signs need medical attention.
- Explain the general role of rehydration using recognised public health guidance, while leaving decisions about fluids for a particular person to a clinician.
- Urge urgent medical care when there is blood, severe pain, head injury, or vomiting in an infant.
Moral aspects Filled
- Dehydration from vomiting kills infants and older people quickly, so advice that delays care is dangerous.
- Self-induced vomiting is a feature of eating disorders, and material about it can reinforce harm.
Who is affected
- Infants and young children
- People with eating disorders
- Pregnant people and older adults
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns it; the treating clinician answers for each patient's care.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1441305 - registry parent class
- Q2057971 - registry parent class
- Q54926352 - registry parent class
- Q779939 - registry parent class
related
- clinical sign - in registry terms
- digestive sign - in registry terms
- health problem - in registry terms
- nausea - usually
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.vomiting
- Wikidata: Q127076 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127076)
- ICD-11: MD90 nausea or vomiting
- MeSH: D014839 vomiting
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Forceful expulsion of stomach contents
- Acute, chronic, psychogenic vomiting; hematemesis, fecal vomiting, hyperemesis
- Regurgitation is passive; nausea is the sensation; retching produces nothing
- Not a visible object; expulsion of stomach contents.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain causes and mechanism
- identify warning signs
- relay management approaches
- route personal questions
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Missing emergencies such as hematemesis or obstruction
- Dehydration especially in children and older people
- Agents giving personal medical advice
- Aspiration
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Clinical guidelines on gastroenteritis, hyperemesis and antiemetics
- Emergency guidance on hematemesis and bowel obstruction
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a clinical sign.
- acute vomiting from infection or toxins
- chronic and cyclic vomiting
- psychogenic vomiting
- hematemesis
- fecal vomiting
- hyperemesis gravidarum
- vomiting in infants and children
- vomiting in animals
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q127076: vomiting - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Vomiting - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should hematemesis and hyperemesis gravidarum be separate primary entries?
- How should clinical guidelines be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming forms and a figurative sense; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q127076/spec.json