ENT/Ophthal/Gen Surg SAQ Flashcards
- A child presents with fever, ear pain and laterally displaced pinna
a. Diagnosis
b. Immediate treatment
c. 3 complications
A. Mastoiditis B. Start CFTX or cefuroxime Get CT with contrast C. 1. Sinus venous thrombosis 2. Meningitis 3. Conductive hearing loss 4. Facial palsy 5. Subdural + epidural abscess
2.13 yo with sinusitis. Febrile for 24hrs on day 1 of Illness. Thick nasal discharge for past 2 weeks. Now worsening cough at night. Daily fevers over last 2 days.
a. What are 2 things in history that makes you suspect sinusitis?
b. What are 3 intracranial complications of sinusitis?
A. Thick nasal discahrge. Daily fever. B. 1. Meningitis 2. Sinus venous thrombosis 3. Epidural abscess 4. Subdural empyema 5. Brain abscess
Extracranial
- Periorbital cellulitis
- Orbital cellulitis
- Pott’s puffy tumour (osteomyelitis of frontal bone)
- 4 year old boy presents with erythematous, fluctuant swelling over the anterior cervical area on the left which has been present for 7-10 days.
A) What is the most common organisms responsible for this?
b) What are 4 other infectious causes of this?
A. Group A strep B. 1. Staph aureus 2. Non-tubeculous mycobacterium 3. Bartonella henselae 4. Tularemia 5. M tuberculosis 6. Plague (Y pestis)
Unilateral
- 6 year old with kissing tonsils on exam. History reveals signs of OSA. You do a sleep study and diagnose OSA, get an urgent ENT consult and the plan is for T&A within 3 days.
a. What investigation needs to be done before the surgery?
b. What are two complications of sleep apnea?
A.
- Assess for signs of velopharyngeal insufficiency + contraindications (over cleft palate, submucosal cleft, neurologic or neuromuscular abN)
- PMHx or FHx of bleeding disorders. If positive, screen CBC, INR, PTT
- Assess for acute signs of infection. May need to delay surgery
B.
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Systemic hypertension
- Daytime somnolence
- Inattention
- Fatigue
- Metabolic syndrome
- A baby presents with a well-defined erythematous midline neck mass following a URTI.
a) What is it?
b) What physical exam maneuver can you do to prove it?
A. Thyroglossal duct cyst
2. On swallowing or sticking out their tongue, it should move up b/c located over hyoid bone (vs dermoid cysts moves with the overlying skin)
- Timeline for diagnosing acute sinusitis in a 5 year old
Acute sinusitis <30d
Subacute sinusitis: 1-3mo
Chronic sinusitis: >3mo
- List 4 non-infectious risk factors of hearing loss in the newborn period. (2 points)
- Family history of SNHL
- Craniofacial anomalies
- Ototoxic medications
- Hyperbilirubinemia at exchange transfusion level
- BW <1500g
- Mechanical ventilation >5d or ECMO
- Dysmorphisms associated with syndromic causes of hearing loss
- A 3 month old child had a TEF repaired in the first few weeks of life. He now presents in your office with stridor. List 2 (or was it 3?) causes of his stridor.
- Croup
- Tracheomalacia
- Vocal cord paralysis from recurrent laryngeal nerve injury during TEF repair
- Foreign body
- Anaphylaxis
- Infantile hemangioma
- Hypocalcemic laryngeal spasm
- A teenage girl reports respiratory distress with vigorous exercise. She has stridor and wheezing, and reports cough, chest and throat tightness. Ventolin and inhaled steroids are no help. During an episode, a CXR done in the ER is normal, and sats are 100% on room air.
A. What is the MOST likely diagnosis?
B. What treatment do you suggest?
A. Vocal cord dysfunction
B. Speech therapy for training in relaxation + control of VC movement
- A new mom wants to know about diminishing risk of otitis media. What 3 preventative measures can you tell her about?
What are the 11 RFs for AOM in the CPS statement?
- No smoking in home, limit exposure to second hand smoke
- Encourage breastfeeding
- Routine vaccination + annual flu shot
- Avoid pacifier
- Young age
- Orofacial abnormalities
- Shorter duration of breastfeeding
- Prolonged feeding with bottle while lying down
- Pacifier use
- FHx of AOM
- Exposure to cigarette smoke
- Exposure to other children
- Household crowding
- First Nations or Inuit ethnicity
- Lower levels of secretory IgA or persistent biofilms in middle ear
- Description of a 2 week old baby whose mom is concerned because he has “noisy breathing?, gets worse when he cries or is upset. On exam, looks well; high pitched sound with breathing.
A. Most likely diagnosis?
B. What one thing can you do on physical exam to support your diagnosis?
A. Laryngomalacia
B. Should be more apparent in supine lying flat and improve with prone or upright
- List 2 xray findings compatible with retropharyngeal abscess. Is this xr adequate - why/why not?
- Prevertebral soft tissue space in front of C2 >7mm, or C6 >14mm
- Air fluid level in retropharyngeal space
- Teen with wheezing, stridor, dyspnea and cough intermittent with extreme exercise and anxiety. Inconsistent inspiratory and expiratory spirometry curves.
A. Diagnosis?
Vocal cord dysfunction
- Young boy with chronic draining ears, pneumonia & widespread eczema. Platelets are low. Diagnosis?
Wiscott-Aldrich Syndrome
Thrombocytopenia
Immunodeficiency - recurrent bacterial, viral, fungal
Eczema
X-inked
Dx: sequence analysis of WAS gene
Photo of leukocoria, though the photo was bad and also looked slightly like corneal clouding with glaucoma. 18 month boy brought because his eye “didn’t look right” - you do an exam and red reflex showed leukocoria.
A. What is most important diagnosis to consider (1)
B. What are 2 other possible diagnoses (2)
A. Retinoblastoma B. 1. Cataract 2. ROP 3. Retinal detachment 4. Persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous