High Yield Flashcards
Low risk criteria for BRUE (name 5)
- Age >60 days
- Born >=32 weeks gestation and CGA >=45 weeks
- No CPR by trained provider
- Duration <1 minute
- First event
PECARN Indications for CT
AMS
GCS <15
Palpable/Basilar skull fracture
- Name 2 Contraindications to activated charcoal (AC)
- Name 3 reasons cases when AC is ineffictive
- AMS, or unable to protect airway
- Periodic table elements, corrosive substances, rapidly absorbed liquid ingestions
Name the antidote:
3. Toxic alcohols (methanol, ethylene glycol)
4. Organophosphate
5. Methemogloninemia
6. Iron
7. Cyanide
- Fomepizole (ethanol)
- Atropine, pralidoxime
- Methylene blue
- Deferoxamine (chelation)
- Cyanokit
Indications for NAC (name 4)
- 4 hour level > cutoff
- Single ingestion > 150mg/kg or > 7.5g
- Unknown time of ingestion and level > 10mcg/mL
- Abnormal AST/ALT or coags
Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome
1. Findings (name 4)
2. Genetics
- Neutropenia (bone marrow failure), steatorrhea (pancreatic insufficiency), FTT, skeletal abnormalities (metaphyseal dysplasia)
- Autosomal recessive
Spherocytosis
1. Definitive test
2. Screening calculation
3. Inheritance
- Eosin-5-maleimide (EMA) aka epithelial membrane antigen binding
- MCHC/MCV ratio >0.36
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration, Mean corpuscular volume - 1/3 de novo, 75% AD, 25% AR
Smith-Lemli-Opitz
1. Inheritance
2. Exam
3. Cause
- AR
- LBW, microcephalic, bitemporal narrowing, hypertelorism, ptosis, epicanthal folds, large, low set rotated ears, cleft palate, micrognathia, poly/syndactyly, underdeveloped male genitalia, retardation, FTT
- Cholesterol mutation, 7-de hydro cholesterol reductase
Fragile X
1. Findings
2. Genetics
3. Cause
- Macrocephaly, large protruding ears, prominent jaw, elongated facies, macroorchidism, joint laxity. ASD/intellect disability.
- X-link dominant
- Trinucleotide repeat expansion
Russell-Silver
1. Findings
- IUGR, triangular shaped facies, hemihypertrophy.
Trisomy 18
1. Findings
- IUGR, hypotrophy, hypotonia, microcephaly, micropthalmia, clenched hands, rocker-bottom feet, delays, FTT.
Name 4 types of B-cell primary immune deficiencies (PIDs)
- X-linked agammaglobulinemia
- Common variable immunodeficiency
- Selective IgA deficiency
- IgG subclass deficiencies
- Hyper IgM (reduced IgG + IgA)
Name 4 types of T Cell immunodeficiencies with partial defects
- DiGeorge
- X-linked Hyper IgM syndrome
- Wiskott-Aldrich
- Ataxia-telangiectasia
Name 5 neutrophil/phagocyte function disorders
- Chronic granulomatous disease
- Leukocyte adhesion defects
- Chediak-Higashi
- Cyclic neutropenia
- Schwachman-Diamond
Typical age of presentation of PIDs
- T Cell - 1 month (SCID) to 3
- Neutrophil - early infancy
- B Cell - late infancy (after 6mo when maternal Abs wear off), early childhood (most common type!)
Name the 4(+) stages of pressure ulcer
- Intact skin, nonblanching erythema
- Partial thickness injury, dermis exposed. Often pink, red or moist. No slouch/eschar.
- Full-thickness, adipose exposed, +slough/eschar. No underlying structures
- Exposure of fascia, muscle, tendon, ligament or bone.
Unstageable. Stage 3 or 4 obscured by eschar
Name 4 types of RTA
- Distal RTA (I), can’t excrete H+, excrete K+ instead, hypokalemia
- Proximal RTA (II), inability to reabsorb bicarb (Seen in Fanconi syndrome)
- Mixed RTA (III), osteopetrosis
- Hyperkalemic RTA (IV), or hypoaldosteronism
Name 6 findings in Fanconi syndrome
- Proximal RTA (non-anion gap metabolic acidosis),
- Hypophosphatemia
- Glucosuria
- Proteinuria
- Hyperuricosuria (urine pH <5.5)
- Thrombocytopenia
Treatment of proximal RTA (name 4+)
- DC offending agent
- Sodium bicarb or citrate
3 potassium salts (K citrate) - K+ sparing diuretic
- Phosphate and Vit D (if Fanconi syndrome)
Name four QI measures and give an example of each
- Outcome measure - test of progress towards the project’s aim
- Process measure - measure of action taken
- Structural measure - assess capacity or infrastructure of a system
- Balancing measure - measure of a related outcome or process that may be affected.
Name the triad that characterizes McCune-Albright syndrome
- Fibrous dysplasia
- Cafe-au-lait spots
- Endocrine abnormalities (precocious puberty)
Define the 5 ASA Physical Status Classes
Class I - Healthy patient
Class II - mild systemic disease that is not limiting activity
Class III - Severe systemic disease that limits activity
Class IV - Severe systemic disease that is a constant threat to life
Class V - Substantial risk of death within 24 hours
What are 4 studies of correlation and when is each used?
- Linear regression - dependent variable is continuous
- Logistic regression - dependent variable is categorical (cannot be quantified)
- Pearson correlation - Analyze the linear relationship between two continuous variables
- Spearman correlation - evaluate relationships between ordinal variables