Case Files 1 Flashcards
Five things in apgar score
HR, Respiratory effort, muscle tone, reflex irritability (catheter in nose), and color
How does a child with a diaphragmatic hernia often present
Immediate respiratory distress, scaphoid abdomen, cyanosis, and heart sounds displaced to right side of chest
What does choanal atresia result in
Respiratory distress when a child stops crying: intubate until surgery can be completed
GDM when mothers fasting glucose above
95
What cause HCM from GDM
Glycogen deposition in myocardium
Why RDS from GDM
Inulin appears to interfere with cortisols ability to induce surfactant production
When do give IV glucose to IDM
When blood glucose less than 40 with any symptom of hypoglycemia
hypocalcemia also seen
Two labs for neonatal jaundice
Bilirubin and hematocrit
What kind of bilirubin is toxic to brain
Unconjugated (deposition into brain causes kernicterus)
What does end-tidal CO2 concentration (ETCO) measure
Non-invasive measure of bilirubin association
Tracutaneous bilirubinometer can also be used
4 findings suggestive of non-physiologic jaundice in newborn
- First 24-36 hours
- Rise > 5 in 24 hours
- Bili greater than 12 in healthy newborn
- Jaundice lasts > 2 weeks
Jaundice in 2nd to 3rd week of life likely
Breast milk jaundice
How does maternal phenobarbital reduce neonatal jaundice
Induces gluconuryl transferase
Defect in Crigler-Najjar
Severe uridine-diphosphate glucuronyslatransferase def (all newborns somewhat def)
Three features typical of GBS pneumonia
Rapid symptom onset, low WBC with left shift, and CXR show infiltrates
Majority of early onset neonatal sepsis occurs when
Within first 24 hours (def is within 6 days)
What is crucial for patients with suspected sepsis
Blood culture
MCC of neonatal sepsis from birth to 3 months
GBS
When do screen pregnant women for GBS
35-37 weeks
How does late onset GBS most commonly manifest
Bacteremia without a focus
Neonatal sepsis Ab tx for early vs late
Early: Pen and amino glycoside (gent)
Late: Vanc and 3rd gen ceph
Late onset neonatal infection (7-90 days) usually caused by
Environment (coag neg staph, E. coli)
Microphallus size
less than 2cm for neonate (
3 goals for intersex born baby
- Learn etiology
- Assign gender
- Intervene with surgical or other treatment
MCC of male pseudohermaphroditism
Androgen insensitivity syndrome
Hyper pigmentation of labial scrotal folds seen in
CAH
What is used for karyotype analysis in neonates
Activated lymphocytes
Whats elevated in the MC CAH? what helps
17-hydroxyprogesterone
Administration of hydrocortisone helps
Gonad + ovaries on US
True hermaphroditism
Androgen insensitivity syndrome
Blind vagina in girl with amenorrhea and no pubic hair
Infants born with intrauterine HSV infection suspected to have
Skin vesicles, chorioretinitis, microcephaly
Blueberry muffin rash with what
Congenital rubella infection
Also some CMV
Neonatal HSV CNS manifestations seen when
2-3 weeks of life
Congenital toxo triad
Hydrocephalus, intracranial calcifications, and chorioretinis