CLIPP Cases Flashcards
Things to ask in well child visit
Interval hx, development, growth, diet and social history
Calories an infant requires a day? pre term? very low birth?
100-120 for full term
130 for pre-term
150 for very low birth weight
Baby weight course
Lose some in first week, expected to gain back birth weight by 2 weeks
What is the moro reflex
Abrupt change in infants head causes symmetric abduction and extension of arms followed by abduction and sometimes cry
Solid foods start when
Cereal at 4 months (rice)
Two month vaccines
DTaP RotaV Hib IPV PCV13
When should an infants birth weight double and triple?
Double by 5 months, triple by 12 months
4 things absence of red reflex could be
Cataracts
Glaucoma
Retinoblastoma
Chorioretinitis
6 month milestones
Rolls over and sits up
Reaches for items and looks at drops items
Turns towards voices and babbles
Feeds self and demonstrates stranger recognition
1 year milestones
Stands alone
Neat pincer grasp
Says mama and dada and a few other words
Points to things and can hand things
Mass in baby for constipation
likely LUQ
What is the HHEADS interview
For young adults about all the fun/bad stuff (more comfortable questions go first)
3 big things seen in mono
fatigue, pharyngitis, and lymphadenopathy
What depression feature is more common in adolescents that adults
Early morning waking
Progression in severe anorexia
Bradycardia, electrolyte imbalances, arrhythmias, circulatory collapse, death
Girls vs Boys starting puberty
Girls b/w 8-13 years of age
Boys b/w 10-15
VWD tx
Desmopression (releases factor 8)
75% of newborn bilirubin comes from
Breakdown of hemoglobin
Manifestations of kernicterus
lose the suck reflex
become lethargic
develop hyperirritability and seizures, and
ultimately die
Physiologic jaundice of newborn def
total bilirubin level ≤ 15 mg/dL (≤ 257 μmol/L) in full-term infants who are otherwise healthy and have no other demonstrable cause for elevated bilirubin.
deficient or completely absent UDPGT causes
Crigler-Najjar syndrome
Normal breast fed baby timing
typically nurses 8–12 times in 24 hours
Day 3 and 6 after birth pee patterns
Day 3: The baby should be voiding 3-4 times a day.
Day 6: Baby should be voiding at least 6–8 times a day.
Day 3 and 6 poo patterns
Day 3: Meconium should no longer appear in the stool and bowel movements should begin to appear yellow.
Day 6 or 7: Most newborns have 3–4 stools per day, although many infants pass stool with every feeding.
A healthy-appearing infant who develops jaundice, dark urine, and acholic (pale) stools between 3 and 6 weeks of age may have
Biliary atresia
Tx is surgery
What should solely breast fed infants start on after 6 months
Iron and fluoride (if water levels are low)
Where does jaundice start on a baby
Face and moves down to trunk
When do you worry about hemolysis as a cause for jaundice in newborn
If jaundice started in the first 24 hours