Child health Flashcards
1
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Developmental milestones? (2)
A
- Median age - age when 50% population achieve a skill
* Limit age - age when skill should have been acquired by 97.5% of children
2
Q
Development delay?
A
Failure to attain appropriate developmental milestone’s for child’s corrected chronological age
3
Q
Patterns of abnormal development? (3)
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- Delay = global or specific
- Deviation e.g. autism
- Regression e.g. Rett’s syndrome
4
Q
Red flags for development? (7)
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- Asymmetry of movement
- Not reaching objects by 6 months
- Unable to sit unsupported by 12 months
- Unable to walk by 18 months (check CK)
- No speech by 18 months
- Vision or hearing
- Loss of skills
5
Q
Global developmental delay?
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Significant delay in 2 or more of
- gross/fine motor, speech/language
- cognition, social/personal, ADL
6
Q
Screening for Down’s syndrome? (7)
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- Cardiac
- Vision
- Hearing
- Thyroid function
- Sleep related breathing disorders
- Growth charts
- Development
7
Q
Developmental delay IQ? (3)
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- Mild learning disability = 50 - 70
- Severe learning disability = 20 - 50
- Profound learning disability = <20
8
Q
Specific developmental delays? (4)
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- Motor delays = DMD, cerebral palsy
- Language delays
- Sensory deficits = oculocutaneous albinism, Treacher-collins
- Developmental deviations = autisim
9
Q
Sign for duchennes muscular dystrophy?
A
Gower’s manoeuvre
10
Q
Conditions associated with cerebral palsy? (8)
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- Mobility problems
- Learning difficulties
- Epilepsy
- Visual/hearing impairment
- Communication difficulties
- Feeding difficulties
- Sleep problems
- Behaviour problems
11
Q
Autistic triad? (3)
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- Communication
- Social interaction
- Flexibility of thought/imagination
12
Q
Autistic communication? (2)
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Receptive language
- Delayed
- Abstract language difficult
- Expressive > receptive
Expressive language
- Delayed
- Echoes
- Odd tone/pitch
- Chunks of video speak
13
Q
ASD flexibility of thought/imagination? (3)
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- Concrete and literal
- Concept of time
- Ritualistic behaviour
14
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ASD sensory issues? (7)
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- Fussy eater
- Textures of clothes
- Sleep
- Toilet training
- Hair washing./cutting
- Nail cutting
- Noise
15
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Developmental delay Ix? (5)
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- Chromosomes
- Neonatal PKU, thyroid studies, CK
- MRI brain
- EEG
- Metabolic studies
