CPS Adolescent health Flashcards
A family is undergoing family-based treatment with you for their daughter who has an eating disorder. They are struggling to gain her cooperation since they are very busy to enforce refeeding. Furthermore, parents are separated. They also wonder whether they should remove her from school. What are your recommendations?
-for many parents, a leave of absence or reduced hours at work is needed to ensure adequate supervision of nutrition = write them a letter to their employer -continue schooling for the child but if there is concern the child is not eating their lunch, parents may need to bring the child home for lunch -reinforce the need to stop all physical activity as the refeeding process gets started -reinforce to parents that the time commitment and intense supervision required at the beginning of treatment is time well spent and offers the child the best chance of complete recovery -reinforce that the illness has affected the child’s ability to adequately care for themselves and that without the parents being a united front and taking charge, recovery will not occur.
Amenorrhea What are the causes of primary and secondary Amenorrhea?

An adolescent patient comes to you after having unprotected sex. She does not want to take Plan B or Yuzpe and instead requests a copper IUD. -what are the criteria for insertion? -what is your management?
Criteria: should be considered for use up to 7 d after unprotected sexual intercourse for women who are in a stable, mutually monogamous relationship and at low risk for STIs -Management: 1. Exclude existing pregnancy: order pregnancy test 2. At time of insertion, endocervical specimens for chlamydia and gonorrhea 3. CONSIDER prophylactic antibiotics for both chlamydia and gonorrhea ***IUD can be removed during or after the next period
An adolescent patient comes to you because they took Plan B and then vomited 20 minutes later. She asks if she should take it again. What do you say?
Yes she should! If vomiting occurs within 1 hr of taking emergency contraception, should retake the dose.
An adolescent patient has chosen to take emergency contraception after having unprotected intercourse. She asks you when she can start taking her regular OCP again. She also wants to know when she should come back for follow up. What do you say?
-Can start a new pack of pills the day after she takes EC. -book f/u appointment for 1 wk after her next expected menstrual period. At that appt, can counsel about choices regarding sexual activity, contraception, STI and safer sex. -may need a pregnancy test if next period is more than 1 wk late, unusual, heavy bleeding or pain.
Anorexia How do you calculate TGW based on old charts?
Current weight: 39.6 kg. Height: 163 cm
What would her target goal weight be based on
this new information?


Anorexia How do you Calculate TGW based on weight when lost menses?
Current weight: 39.6 kg. Height: 163 cm
Girl remembers she lost her period around 43.2kg but
can’t be sure. Calculate a target goal weight based on this information
- 2 kg + 2 kg = 45.2 kg
- 6 kg / 45.2kg = TGW of 87.6%
Anorexia How do you calculate TGW based on BMI?
You are in ED seeing a 16 year old patient with likely Anorexia
Nervosa. Her current weight: 39.6 kg. Height: 163 cm. Her physical exam is normal and her orthostatic vitals are
also within normal limits. You do not have access to any growth
records. She is with her Dad and he doesn’t remember what weight she was when she lost her period.
Calculate a target goal weight
50%ile BMI for 16 year old female = 20.5 kg/m2
- 5 kg/m2 x 1.63 m x 1.63 m = 54.5kg
- 6kg/54.5 kg = TGW 73%
Anorexia nervosa Wha are the recommended tests in a child with suspected eating disorder?
- CBC and ESR
- Renal, bone bioch, LFT’s and albumin
- Endocrine:
a. TFT’s
b. FSH, LH, Estradiol, Prolactin if ammenorrhea - ECG
- BMD if no preiods for 6 months
Anorexia nervosa What are the clinical features of eyes, teeth, salivary glands, throat, heart cf binge eating/purging

Anorexia nervosa What are the clinical features of GIT, MSK, CNS, mental cf binge eating/purging

Anorexia nervosa What are the clinical features of weight, metabolism, skin and hair cf binge eating/purging

Anorexia nervosa What are the optional tests in a child with suspected eating disorder?
- GIT
a. Upper and small GIT series & Barium enema
b. Celiac screen - Brain MRI to r/o brain tumor
Anorexia nervosa What are the 2 types of anorexia nervosa ?
Restricting type:
During the last 3 months, the individual has not engaged in recurrent episodes of binge eating
or purging behavior (i.e., self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas). This subtype
describes presentations in which weight loss is accomplished primarily through dieting, fasting, and/or
excessive exercise.
Binge-eating/purging type:
During the last 3 months, the individual has engaged in recurrent episodes of
binge eating or purging behavior (i.e., self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas).
Anorexia nervosa What is the DSM 5 criteria for anorexia nervosa?
A. Restriction of energy intake relative to requirements, leading to a significantly low body weight in the
context of age, sex, developmental trajectory, and physical health. Significantly low weight is defined as a
weight that is less than minimally normal or, for children and adolescents, less than that minimally expected.
B. Intense fear of gaining weight or of becoming fat, or persistent behavior that interferes with weight gain,
even though at a significantly low weight.
C. Disturbance in the way in which one’s body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight
or shape on self-evaluation, or persistent lack of recognition of the seriousness of the current low body
weight.
Anorexia Purging What is the blood picture in frequent vomiting or use of diuretics?
Hypokalemia with an increased serum bicarbonate level
Anorexia Purging What is the blood picture in laxative abuse?
nonanion gap acidosis
Anorexia Wha are the 4 ways to calculate TGW?

Anorexia What are the criteria for Binge Eating Disorder? DSM 5
A. Recurrent episodes of binge eating. An episode of binge eating is characterized by both of the following:
- Eating, in a discrete period of time (e.g., within any 2-hour period), an amount of food that is definitely
larger than what most people would eat in a similar period of time under similar circumstances.
- A sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g., a feeling that one cannot stop eating or
control what or how much one is eating).
B. The binge-eating episodes are associated with three (or more) of the following:
- Eating much more rapidly than normal.
- Eating until feeling uncomfortably full.
- Eating large amounts of food when not feeling physically hungry.
- Eating alone because of feeling embarrassed by how much one is eating.
- Feeling disgusted with oneself, depressed, or very guilty afterward.
C. Marked distress regarding binge eating is present.
D. The binge eating occurs, on average, at least once a week for 3 months.
E. The binge eating is not associated with the recurrent use of inappropriate compensatory behavior as in
bulimia nervosa and does not occur exclusively during the course of bulimia nervosa or anorexia nervosa.
Anorexia What are the ECG findings in anorexia?
- Classic teaching is QTc prolongation. EXAM>>
- Typically bradycardia & Increased QT dispersion (difference between the maximum QT interval and the minimum QT interval and reflects heterogeneous ventricular depolarization).
- Hypokalemia - < 3 mEq/L -ST segment sagging, T wave
depression, and U wave elevation.
- ECG usually has low voltage, with nonspecific ST or T wave
changes.




























