General Principles Flashcards

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Development milestones during toddlerhood

(Gross motor, fine motor, language, social/cognitive)

  1. 12 months
  2. 18 months
  3. 2 years
  4. 3 years
  5. 4 years
  6. 5 years
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2
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Skills necessary to begin toilet training

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Usually ready to start at >=2 years; But bedwetting is normal until age 5

  1. Voluntarily control sphincters
  2. Walk
  3. Remove pants
  4. Follow 2-step commands
  5. Communicate the need to urinate and stool
  6. Imittate actions of other people (e.g., sit on toilet)
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3
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Constipation

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4
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Cryptorchidism

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5
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Developmental milestones during first year of life (Gross motor, fine motor, language, social/cognitive)

  1. 2 months
  2. 4 months
  3. 6 months
  4. 9 months
  5. 12 months
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By 12 months, babies should triple their weight and their height should increase by 50%

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6
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Blunt abdominal trauma with a negative fast

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Should have a CT (despite negative fast) if high risk features are present: anemia, guarding

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7
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Persistant pneumothorax and significant air leak following chest tube placement

Blunt chest trauma

Pneumomediastinum

Subcutaneous emphysema

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Tracheobronchial rupture

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8
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Causes of posteroperative fever

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9
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Most frequent cause of nosocomial bloodstream infectionin patients with intravascular devices

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Coagulase negative staphylococci

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10
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Timeline of cause of posteroperative fever (Timing, causes)

  1. Immediate
  2. Acute
  3. Subacute
  4. Delayed
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Immunologic blood transusion reactions (Clinical features and etiology)

  1. Febrile nonhemolytic
  2. Acute hemolytic
  3. Delayed hemolytic
  4. Anaphylactic
  5. Urticarial/allergic
  6. Transfusion-related acute lung injury
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12
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Organisms causing UTIs related to indwelling urinary catheters

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Enteric organisms

  • Escheria coli*
  • Klebsiella pneumoniae*
  • Proteus mirabilis*
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13
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Management of blunt abdominal trauma in hemodynamically unstable patients

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14
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Gunshot would below this level can potentially involve the abdomen and requires exploratory laparotomy in unstable patients

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Nipple level (4th intercostal space)

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Pink stains or brick dust in neonatal diapers represents uric acid crystals.

Uric acid excretion is especially high at birth and decreases until adolescence.

Commonly seen during first week, or in later months with the morning void after the infant begins to sleep through the night.

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16
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Evaluation of neonatal dehydration

  1. Signs of dehydration
  2. Management of weight loss
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17
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Glasgow coma scale (GCS)

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Ability to open eyes

Motor response

Verbal response