Child health Flashcards
Treatment for croup
Oral dexamethasone, neb adrenaline if severe
Treatment for epiglottitis
IV ceftrioxne, oxygen and senior ENT help
What is treatment for persistent DDH
Open surgery
What is the treatment for unstable DDH
Harness
Way of remembering Salter Harris classification
Straight, Above, Lower, Through/two, Erasure
Necrotising entercolitis treatment
Nil by mouth, clindamycin, ceftaxime
What murmur do you get in a ventricular septal defect
Pansystolic murmur
What murmur do you get with an atrial septal defect
Ejection systolic- splitting of s2
Mx of patent ductus arteriosus
Ibuprofen, to inhibit prostaglandin synthesis
What type of hyperbilirubinamia would breast milk jaundice cause
unconjugated
What type of hyperbilirubiaemia would biliary atresia cause
conjugated
What can unrepaired hydroceles lead to
Indirect inguinal hernia due to the process vaginalis not closing
Ground glass appearance on CXR
RDS
What presents with a characteristic salmon pink rash
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Common causative organism for croup
Hemophillus influenza type B
slapped cheek syndrome is caused by ?
Parovirus B19 sparing on nasolabial folds
What is meconium ileus associated with
CF
What vaccines are live
MMR, smallpox, chickenpox, yellow fever
Double bubble sign on xray
Duodenal atresia
Describe bronchiolitis
Typical presentation at 3-6 months
Corzyal symptoms with increased work of breathing (subcostal recession and head bobbing)
Caused by respiratory syncytial virus
Supportive treatment
mnemonic for tetralogy of fallot
PROVe
Pulmonary stenosis
Right ventricular hypertrophy
Overriding aorta
Ventricular septal defect
What is the most common congenital heart disease in down syndrome
atrioventricular septal defect
What organism causes scarlet fever
Strep pyogenes
Presentation of NEC
Bilious vomiting, bloody stools, absent bowel sounds, met acidosis
Abdo x-ray: dilated bowel loops and thumbprinting with gas in abdomen
Presentation of congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Genetic defect (autosomal recessive) in 21 hyroxylase deficiency causing underproduction of cortisol and aldosterone and overproduction of androgens
Ambigous gentialia, hypotension, hypoglycaemia, dehydration, vomiting
MM- hydrocortisone, fludrocortisone, saline
What is hirshsprungs disease
Nerves in rectum are missing so stool cannot be passed. Failing to pass meconium can be a sign
Can be confirmed with a rectal biopsy to determine absence of ganglion cells
What does coxsackie virus A16 cause
Hand foot and mouth
What does strep pyogenes cause
Scarlet fever
What is the cause of slapped cheek syndrome
Parovirus B19
Sausage shaped mass on RUQ
intusseption
