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L15 - URTI / LRTI in children Flashcards

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Presentation of URTIs inchildren

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  • Coryza (cold)
  • sore throat
  • ear ache
  • sinusitis (uncommon)
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Presentation of LRTIs in children

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  • cough
  • wheeze
  • respiratory dsitress
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Treating a child with the common cold?

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Pain treated with paracetamol or ibuprofen.

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Describe pharyngitis?

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  • Pharynx and soft palate inflamed.
  • Local lymph nodes are enlarged and tender.
  • Usually due to viral infection.
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Pharyngitis commonly caused by?

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Adenoviruses
Enteroviruses
Rhinoviruses

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What is acute otitis media?

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Ear pain and fever.

Most common in children between 6-12 months

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On examination of a child with acute otitis media, what might be seen?

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Tympanic membrane seen to be bright and red, bulging.

Less of normal light reflection.

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Indications for tonsilectomy?

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  • Recurrent severe tonsilitis
  • Perionsillar abscess (quincy)
  • Obstructive sleep apnoea
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Stridor

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Due to partial obstruction of lower portion of upper airway, including upper trachea and pharynx.

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Croup

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  • Barking cough like sea lion.
  • Harsh stridor.
  • Variable degree of difficulty breathing with chest retraction.
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Whooping cough caused by…

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Bacterium bordetella pertussis.

Spread from person to person by airborne droplets.

Sudden attack (paroxysm) of coughs followed by whoop.

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Acute bronchitis

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Inflammatory condition

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Bronchiolitis

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Bronchioles of young child swollen by inflammation.

Passage of air to and from alveoli difficult.

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Give an example of a cause of bronchiolitis and pneumonia in infants

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RSV - Respiratory synctial virus

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Describe what happens if RSV inhaled

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  • Virus establishes infection in the nasopharynx and lower respiratory tract.
  • Young infant develops cough, rapid respiratory rate and cyanosis.
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How might a neonate develop interstital pneumonia at birth?

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Caused by chlamydia trachomastis acquired from the mother at birth.

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Pneumonia

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Infection that inflames the air sacs in one or both lungs.

Sac’s may fill with fluid or pus.

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Patients with pneumonia usually present feeling unwell and have…

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  1. Chest pain: may be pleuritic in nature
  2. Cough: may produce sputum
  3. Dyspnoea: shortness of breath
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An X-ray of patient with pneumonia may show…

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Shadow’s indicating consolidation.

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What virus causes measles?

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Rubeola virus

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Incubcation period and symtpoms of measles

what are koplik’s spots?

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Incubation period 10-14 days.

Symptoms: fever, runny nose, conjunctivitis, cough

Koplik’s spots: white lesions on buccal mucosa.

Rash 1-2 days after

22
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Where does the rubeola virus replicate?

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Epithelium of nasopharynx, middle ear and lung

23
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TB causes by…

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Aerosol transmission

24
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Broncholitis

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Inflammatory condition of tracheobronchial tree.

Characterised by cough and excessive mucus production.

25
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B. Pertussis colonises…

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Ciliated respiratory epithelium causing the specifically human infection - whooping cough.

26
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Empyema

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Infection of pleural space

27
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What may be given for relief, to patients with severe upper airway obstruction?

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Nebulished epinephrine with oxygen

28
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Acute epiglotitis

often caused by?

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Intense swelling of the epiglottis and surrounding tissue.

Usually caused by H.influenzae type B.

Onset is usually very acute.

29
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Describe what symptoms a child with epiglotitis may present with?

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  • Increased fever
  • very ill
  • intensely painful throat that prevents child from speaking or swallowing
  • soft inspiratory stridor
  • child sitting immobile, with an open mouth to optimize the airway
30
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Symptoms of viral illness (common cold)

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Nasal discharge 
Sneezing 
Painful throat / ears 
Pyrexia 
Headache 
Malaise
31
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Signs of viral illness

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  • Red pharynx
  • pus
  • bilateral red tympanic membranes
  • yellow / green discharge
32
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Tonsilitis commonly caused by…

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Group A streptococcus

- may require throat swab

33
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Treatment of tonsilitis

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Analgesia

Antibiotics is bacterial infection

34
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Treatment for croup

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Dexamethasone (corticosteroid)

- decreases laryngeal mucosal edema.

35
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What score is used evaluate the severity of croup?

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Westley score: assesses five factors

  1. Level of consciousness
  2. Cyanosis
  3. Stridor
  4. Air entry
  5. Retractions
36
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Epiglottitis may be caused by

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Haemophilus influenza type B

37
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Bronchiolitis may be caused by…

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Human metepneumovirus
Adenovirus
Influenza

38
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Signs of bronchioitis

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Tug 
Nasal flare 
Head bob 
Recession 
Crackles 
Wheeze on chest examination
39
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Symptoms of pneumonia

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Pyrexia 
Lethargy 
Breathlessness 
Cough 
Chest pain 
Abdominal pain
40
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Signs of pneumonia

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Pyrexia 
Tachcardia 
Tachypnoea 
Desaturation 
Recession 
Crepitations 
Wheeze
41
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Pneumonia caused by…

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Under 5s: RSV, strep pneuomoniae, mycoplasma, viruses

Over 5s: strep pneumoniae, mycoplasma, viruses

42
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Possible investigations for Pneuomonia

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CXR

Cough swab

43
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Symptoms of empyema: patient might have?

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  • Fever
  • cough
  • breathlessness
  • lethargy
  • malaise
  • reduced exercise tolerance
44
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Signs of empyema

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  • Reduced chest expansion
  • reduced breath sounds
  • stony dull on percussion
45
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Causes of empyema

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Strep pneuomoniae, staph aureas

46
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Investigations for empyema

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Blood culture
Pleural fluid PCR and culture
CXR
USS

47
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Possible treatment for empyema

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antiobiotics, chest drain

48
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Describe a lung abscess

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Pus in cavity in lung parenchyma.

49
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Describe how a lung abscess may form

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Pneumonitis
Necrosis
Cavitation
Abscess formation

50
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Types of TB

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Latent
- immune system can’t kill bacteria, but prevents it spreading to body
Active
- immune system fails to kill or contain the infection and it spreads within lungs/ body. symptoms develop.

Latent TB can develop into an active TB disease at a later date.

51
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Describe nontuberculous mycobacteria

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Mycobacteria which do not cause TB.
Resembles TB.
Difficult to eradicate.
Incidence rising in CF patients.

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