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Archived - Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) 2020 > 1 - Systematic Approach > Flashcards

1 - Systematic Approach Flashcards

1
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4 Types of Respiratory Problems

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  1. Upper Airway Obstruction
  2. Lower Airway Obstruction
  3. Lung Tissue Disease
  4. Disordered Control of Breathing
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4 Types of Circulatory Problems

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  1. Hypovolemic Shock
  2. Distributive Shock
  3. Cardiogenic Shock
  4. Obstructive Shock
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ABCDE

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Airway
Breathing
Circulation
Disability
Exposure
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Signs of Maintainable Airway

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Airway is obstructed but can be maintained by simple measures - head tilt-chin lift

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Signs of not Maintainable Airway

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Airway obstruction that cannot be maintained without advanced interventions - intubation

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Signs of upper airway obstruction

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  1. Increased inspiratory effort with retractions
  2. Abnormal inspiratory sounds (snoring or high pitched stridor)
  3. Resp effort but no airway/breath sounds
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Ways to position a responsive child for optimal breathing

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  1. Allow the child to assume a position

2. Elevate HOB

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Ways to position an unresponsive child for optimal breathing

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Turn child on side if you do not suspect cervical injury

Use a head tilt-chin or jaw thrust

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Foreign Body? <1 year of age

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5 Back slaps and 5 Chest thrusts

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Foreign Body? >1 year

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Give abdominal thrusts

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Fast Respiratory rate possibly reasons

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Sepsis
Fever
Pain
Dehydration
CHD
Anemia
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What is an ominous clinical sign of impending arrest in infant or children

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Bradypnea or irregular RR in acutely ill children

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Three types of apnea

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  1. Central Apnea
  2. Obstructive
  3. Mixed Apnea
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Central Apnea is…

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No respiratory effort

Central nervous system is not send signals regularly or at all

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Obstructive Apnea is…

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Inspiratory effort without airflow

Obstruction is in the way

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Mixed Apnea is…

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Periods of obstructive and central apnea

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17
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When do agonal gasps present in a child?

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Very late deterioration

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18
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Increased respiratory rate is from

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conditions that increase resistance to airflow

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Examples of conditions that increase resistance to airlfow

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  1. Bronchitis
  2. Asthma
  3. Anything that causes stiff lungs and difficult to inflate
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3 objective signs of a child trying to compensate and increase respers

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  1. Nasal Flaring
  2. Retractions
  3. Head bobbing/seesaw respirations
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Retractions

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inward movement of the chest wall/tissues/sternum during inspiration. Trying to move air into the lungs

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Retractions w/ stridor or an inspiratory snoring

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Upper Airway Obstruction

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Retractions by expiratory wheezing

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Lower Airway Obstruction

obstruction during both ins and exp

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Retractions WITH

grunting or labored respirations

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Lung Tissue Disease - Grunting to keep the alveoli open

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25
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Head Bobbing is using what muscles

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neck muscles

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26
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Seesaw respirations are seen in children w/

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neuromuscular disease

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27
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Tidal volume measurement

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5 to 7ml/kg

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28
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Minute Ventilation Equation

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RR X Tidal Volume

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29
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Stridor/Reason

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High pitched - Upper Airway Obstruction

30
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Snoring reason

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Soft tissue swelling or dec LOC

31
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Grunting/Reason

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Low pitched sound during expiration
Exhale against a partially closed glottis
Lung Tissue Disease
Pain from abd pathology

32
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Gurgling/Reason

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Bubbling sound during insp and exp

Upper airway obstruction due to secretions, vomit, blood

33
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Wheezing/Reason

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Whistling - mostly during expiration

Usually intrathoracic

34
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Isolated inspiratory wheezing suggests

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a foreign body / upper ariway/trachea

35
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Crackles mainly during exp or insp?

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Inspiratory

Fluid filled alveoli opening causing crackles

36
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Wet crackles

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Fluid filled alveoli

37
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Dry crackles

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Atelectasis or interstitial lung disease (Scaring of the lung tissue)
Cause of RUBBING

38
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Infant/child develops “Barking”

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Upper Airway Obstruction

39
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O2 saturation does not indiacte

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02 delivery

40
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Profoundly anemic?

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Saturation could be 100% but 02 content in the blood and 02 delivery may be low

41
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What to be careful with CO posioning

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Falsely high 02 saturation bc it counts the carboxyhemoglobin as fully saturated hemoglobin

42
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What is methemoglobin

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When the iron in the body is in the ferrite state not the normal ferrous
Cannot bind oxygen meaning - no O2 to tissues

43
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Methemoglobin clinical signs

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if methemoglobin concentrations are above 5% - the pulse ox will read approximately 85% regardless of the degree of methemoglobinemia

44
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Some drugs that can cause methemoglobin

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Nitrates, Topical anesthetics (benzoincaine), local anesthesia

45
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Pulsus Paradoxus

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Cardiac Tamponade
Dec pulse strength (and BP) during inspiration
More than 10mmhg decrease systolically due to the preload causing the septum wall to curve in towards the left ventricle

46
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What is and Causes of cardiac tamponade

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What is: Excessive accumulation of fluid within the pericardial sac
Cancer, Kidney failure
TB, pericarditis

47
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Beck’s Triad

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  1. Low BP
  2. Increased JVD
  3. Muffled heart sounds
48
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Hypotension w/ hemorrhage is how much of a loss of circulation blood volume

49
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UO for infants and young children

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1.5 to 2ml/kg per hour

50
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UO for older children and adolescents

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1 ml/kg per hour

51
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Disability is evaluating

A

neurologic function

52
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Standard evaulation

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  1. APVU (alert, responsive to voice, responsive t pain, unresponsive)
  2. GCS
  3. Pupil reaction
  4. BS
53
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Eye Opening GCS

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(4) Spontaneous
(3) Speech
(2) Pain
(1) No response

54
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Verbal GCS

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(5) Oriented
(4) Confused
(3) Inappropriate Words
(2) Incomprehensible Words
(1) No Response

55
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Motor GCS

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(6) Obeys Commands
(5) Localizes Pain
(4) Withdraws from pain
(3) Abnormal Flexion (Decorticate Rigidity)
(2) Abnormal Extension (Decerebrate Rigidity)
(1) No Response

56
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AVPU And GSC equivalent

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Alert = 15
Verbal = 13
Painful Stimulation = 8
Unresponsive = 6

57
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Pinpoint puppils

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Narcotic Ingestion

58
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Dilated puppils

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Cocaine, ICP

Sympathetic autonomic activity

59
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Unilaterally dilated pupils w/ AMS

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Ipsilateral (same side) uncal herniation (lateral herniation of the temporal lobe)

60
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Hypoglycemia in an infant vs child

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infant: <45
child: <60

61
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Petechiae suggests

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low PLT count

62
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Petechia and Purpura may be signs of..

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Septic Shock

63
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Secondary Assessment Consists of

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  1. Focused Hx
  2. Focused PE
  3. Ongoing Reassessment
64
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Focused Hx mnumonic

65
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SAMPLE

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S/S
Allergies
Medications
PMH
Last Oral Intake
Events
66
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Focused PE

A

Brief head to toe

67
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Infants compensate for hypercarbia through

A

renal retention of bicarb

68
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Arterial Lactate means…

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Metabolic acidosis - associated w/ tissue hypoxia

Anaerobic Metabolism

69
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What is lactic acid

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When there is not enough oxygen to break down glucose/glycogen and the body instead breaks down carbohydrates for energy

70
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What lactic acid level is abnormal

71
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Retractions WITH

Stridor or Snoring

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Upper Airway Obstruction

72
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Retractions WITH

Expiratory Wheezing

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Lower Airway Obstruction (Asthma/Bronchitis)

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