Infant Health Flashcards
Infancy: 28 days to 12 months
health supervision visits at:
1, 2, 4, 6, 9, and 12 months
Screening: > Tb is screened for at -1- visit(s) > -2- follow up? > H&H @ -3- > -4-: every visit up to age 2 > Dental development starting at -5-
- all six
- Bili
- 4 months (Rh incompatible, ABO, Koontz positive)
- Length, weight, head circumference
- six months through 36 months (first and last tooth eruption)
Infant vitals:
HR: -1-
RR: -2-
Avg BP: -3-
- 100-150
- 30-55
- 100/65
Infant Head Assessment
Fontanel assessment - every visit up to -1-
Head control at -2-
Also assess for -3-
- 18 months
- 4 months (very mild lag, if any)
- micro-/macrocephaly
Neck
Assess for: Masses; -1-; -2- (esp. in LGA
babies
Tonsillar -3-: clue to -4- problem/tonsillar -5-
- crepitus
- clavicular fracture
- asymmetry
- airway
- hypertrophy
Skin: -1- spots, -2-, -3- edema (tip to -4- disease)
- Mongolian
- hemangiomas
- periorbital
- cardiac
Assessment
Nose
> flattened: -1-
> flaring -2-
- FAS, DiGeorge?
2. respiratory; c-section? tachypnea/TTM?
Mouth: -1-, -2-, -3- (healthy?), -4- (-5- = malabsorption/vitamin deficiency)
- size
- clefts
- teeth
- lips
- cheilosis/cheilitis
Assess strength of cry: cri-du-chat =
high-pitched cry, indicative of genetic disease (5p deletion)
Chest: naked for breathing; shape? (-1-)
heart: -2-
Breasts in both males & females: -3-; -4-
- barrell, pectus excavatum or carinatum
- murmurs, clicks, thrills
- gynecomastia, galactorrhea
- physiologic up to 2 months
Abdomen: liver palpation, diastinus recti - the -1- where the -2- haven’t yet -3-
- midline ridge
- abdominal muscles
- fully grown to center
Genitalia: boys: -1-, -2- location
girls - -3-, -4-
- two palpable testicles
- meatus
- symmetrical
- seperable inner & outer labia
Hip assessment: O&B are hard to do -1-; Alice sign: -2-: -3- same -4-
- on older children
- uneven leg length
- hips, knees at
- level while standing
Assessment of skin folds: -1-, -2-, and -3-
> Look for -4-
- gluteal
- popliteal
- upper thigh
- symmetry
Lymph nodes: cause for alarm: -1-, EMERGENCY - concerning for -2-
- supraclavicular
2. mediastinal mass
Development scales:
Bayley (-1- scales; age range: -2-), newborn -3-assessment, -4- questionnaire, denver -5-
- Cognitive, Language, & Motor Scales
- 1 month to 3.5 years (42 months)
- behavioral
- ages & stages
- developmental scales