1. PEDIA

Question 1

BRASSY COUGH + HIGH FEVER + PX IN DISTRESS + ACUTELY ILL + COPIOUS PURULENT SPUTUM

Diagnosis?

Answer 1

Bacterial Tracheitis

Question 2

Ragged air column sign

Answer 2

Bacterial Tracheitis

Question 3

PNA etiologies

Young Infants? 0-28 days

Answer 3

GBS
E COLI
LISTERIA
S. PNEUMONIAE

Question 4

PNA etiologies

3 WEEKS - 3 MONTHS

Answer 4

RSV
PARAINFLUENZA 
CHLAMYDIA
MYCOPLASMA
S. PNEUMONIAE
S. AUREUS

Question 5

PNA etiologies

4 MOS - 4 YRS

Answer 5

VIRUSES
S. PNEUMONIAE
H. INFLUENZAE TYPE B
MYCOPLASMA

Question 6

STACCATO COUGH

Answer 6

Chlamydia

Question 7

Brassy cough

Answer 7

Staphylococcus

Question 8

Barking seal cough

Answer 8

Parainfluenza

Question 9

Whooping + posttussive vomiting

Answer 9

Bordetella

Question 10

Severe in am

Answer 10

Asthma

Question 11

Subglottic narrowing / steeple sign

Answer 11

Croup /LTB

Question 12

Moderate to severe croup tx?

Answer 12

Racemic Epinephrine

Single dose dexa 0.6mg/kg

Question 13

Rapidly progressing obstruction
+ drooling
+ hyperextended neck
+ large cherry red swollen epiglottis

Answer 13

Acute epiglottitis

Question 14

Acute epiglotitis antibx?

Answer 14

Cefotaxime
Ceftriaxone
Meropenem

Question 15

Posterior pharungeal wall bulging

Answer 15

Retropharyngeal abscess

Question 16

SOAPBRAINMD

SLE CRITERIA OF DIAGNOSIS

Answer 16

S-SEROSITIS
O- ORAL ULCERS
A- ARTHRITIS
P- PHOTOSENSITIVITY
B- BLOOD CHAnges
R- renal disorder
A- ANA ABNORMAL TITER
I- IMMUNOLOGICAL CHANGES
N- NEUROLOGICAL SIGNS
M- MALAR RASH
D- DISCOID RASH

Question 17

What chromosome is alpha thalassemia?

Answer 17

C16

Question 18

What chromosome is beta thalassemia

Answer 18

C11

Question 19

What is Meckel’s diverticulum?

Answer 19

The embryological remnant of the vitelline duct.

NOTES
Vitelline duct connects the embryological midgut to the yolk sac.
Rule of Twos: 2 feet from the ileocecal valve (in the ileum), 2 inches long, 2% of population, 2x more common in males, 2% symptomatic.