Acute illness in children Flashcards
Define laryngomalacia?
- congenital softening of the tissues of the larynx
Symptoms of laryngomalacia?
- nosy breathing
- stridor
Inspiratory wheeze in a child may be?
- laryngomalacia
Symptoms of sepsis?
- tachypnoea
- tachycardia
- hypotension
- pyrexia
Define bronchiolitis?
- acute inflammatory injury of the larynx
What viral cause of bronchiolitis?
- RSV
- Respiratory syncytial virus
Symptoms of bronchiolitis?
- winter months
- noisy breathing out wheeze
- lower airway
- bubbly cough
Croup is also known as___
- laryngotracheobronchitis
Common cause of viral croup
- parainfluenza
Symptoms of croup
- barking cough
- stridor
- sternal intercostal in drawing
Treatment of croup
- oral corticosteroids
What vaccine has reduced the occurrence of epiglottitis?
- Hib
Symptoms of epiglottitis?
- fever
- drooling
- stridor
- systemically unwell
Crackles on auscultation of the lung fields and temperature may be?
- pneumonia
Meningitis is often ___bacterial/viral___
- either
Encephalitis is often __bacterial/viral___
- viral
- HSV
Symptoms of meningitis?
- pyrexia
- bulging fontanelle
- non-blanching rash
Diagnosis of meningitis?
- clinical
- lumbar puncture
- imaging
Describe a febrile seizure?
- short generalised seizure in children
- response to temperature
- short duration
Symptoms of pyloric stenosis
- milk vomiting
- hungry baby but being sick
- mass in abdo
Prolonged QT is caused by?
- heart conduction abnormality
- inherited mutation
Investigations into pyloric stenosis?
- USS abdo
When should you USS for a urogenital infection?
- recurrent infections
- fails to respond to treatment
- assess for renal tract abnormalities
