6. 12/09/20 Flashcards

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What is the diagnostic treatment for intusussception

A

Air enema (also may be theraputic)

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2
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What conditions may cause dysmotility?

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Cerebral palsy, surgery and dilated bowel

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What causes bloody diarrhoea?

What are the outcomes?

A

E.coli 0157 HUS!

Thrombotic thrombocytopenia (AKI)
Anemia
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4
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What are the four main skill areas?

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Fine motor
Gross motor
Social
Speech/language

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What is gross motor testing?

What do we test?

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Testing large muscle groups

Good head control- 6wks
Sit without suport- 6 months
Straigh back sitting- 9 months
Walks alone- 12 months

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6
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What is fine motor testing

What do we test?

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Small precise movements. Do one at a time

Palmar grasp- 5 months
Pincer grasp- 10 months

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What is speech testing?

What do we test?

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Looking at speech. May be shy, try engage with child

Turns head to side- 6 months
Responds to name- 9 months
Knows nouns- 12 months
Uses two words coherently- 2 months

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What are social skills?

What do we test?

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Social smile- 6 weeks
Reaches for bottle- 6 months
Holds and bites food- 9 months
Waves bye bye- 12 months

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9
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What mouth symptoms does IBD present with

How does UC spread?

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Only in Crohn’s- angular stomatitis, mouth ulcer’s

UC only spreads distal to proximal

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How do crohn’s and UC present on colonoscopy?

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Crohn’s- proctitis, varying colon inflammation, skip lesions, crypt abscess’

UC- distal to proximal lesions

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What is the treatment for IBD?

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Anti-inflmattory measures (steroids)
Monoclonal antibodies (Infliximab)
immunosuppression (methotrexate, thiopurines)

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12
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What condition is UC associated with?

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Reactive arthritis

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13
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What is writer’s syndrome?

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Caused by chlamydia

Can’t pee (cystitis)
Can’t see (uveitis)
Can’t climb a tree (arthritis)

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What rash is associated with many GI causes in children (Celiac’s, IBD)

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Dermatitis herpaticams

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Q

What are the differentials for abdo pain in someone with sickle cell disease

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Sequestered liver and spleen (stripping of sickle cells)
Gall stones (increased heamolysis)
Appendicitis
Mesenteric ischemia

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What are two major complications of sickle cell disease?

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Sickle chest- clots in lungs, Decreased O2, increased sickling

Stroke’s

17
Q

What drug can be given to increase fetal heamoglobin and decrease sickle cell symptoms?

What are the side effects?

A

Hydroxycarbimide

Suppresses fertility while taking it

18
Q

What is a neuroblastoma?

A

A tumour of the sympathetic system