Med Study 1 Flashcards
Antidote for tylenol toxicity
N-Acetyl Cysteine
All glandular secretions, aka the parasympathetic nervous system, is blocked in this toxidrome
anticholinergic
Dry mouth, dry axilla, tachycardia, goofy (mad as a hatter).
Mumbling, picking at things often as well….
= what toxidrome?
= anticholinergic
Anticholinergic meds do what to your pupils?
dilate them
Is benadryl anticholinergic?
YUP
Mad a as a hatter
Hot as a hare
Dry as a bone
Blind as a bat
= what toxidrome?
anticholinergic
Name the anticholinergic side effects aka toxidrome:
dry (dry mouth, dry axilla) dilated pupils--blurry vision tachycardic mad as a hatter urinary retention constipation
Tinnitus is a symptom of this toxidrome
salicylates (aspirin)
The feared side effects of aspirin (salicylate) overdose:
Cerebral edema
Non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema
Why put aspirin overdose patients on a bicarb drip?
Helps keep the aspirin in the blood and out of the brain, and increases aspirin elimination in the urine
Acid base derangement seen in aspirin toxicity:
Anion gap metabolic acidosis
Describe the TCA (tricyclic antidepressant) toxidrome and how they cause such severe problems:
- anticholinergic effects
- TCAs are potent sodium channel blockers (cause cardiac arrhythmia–specifically widened QRS, decreased contractility)
- they are also alpha blockers–> cause hypotension and shock
- and the provoke seizures, can even develop status
How to treat TCA overdose:
- -the anticholinergic part – supportive
- -the seizures – benzos
- -the cardiac stuff – give sodium bicarb (the sodium will help unblock the sodium channels a little bit that the TCAs are blocking, this will help narrow the QRS a bit)
- -alpha agonists (like norepi) for the hypotension
Name some toxic alcohols:
methanol
ethylene glycol
How does methanol poisoning present?
Methanol is a toxic alcohol. It gets converted to formic acid, which makes you blind and damages the basal ganglia.
Presents with AG metabolic acidosis, blurry vision and altered mental status.
How does ethylene glycol toxicity present?
Ethylene glycol = another toxic alcohol
Metabolizes into oxalic acid, which combines with calcium to form calcium oxalate crystals
AG metabolic acidosis
And elevated creatinine
Calcium oxalate crystals think
ethylene glycol
4-methylpyrazole
= a potent inhibitor of alcohol dehydrogenase
used to treat methanol and ethylene glycol poisoning
because it will block alcohol dehydrogenase from converting this alcohols into their toxic metabolites (formic acid and oxalic acid, respectively)
or could actually use ethanol to treat these
ethylene glycol is found in
it’s antifreeze
used in cars
urine floresces
ethylene glycol
Where is methanol found?
wind shield wiper fluid
or like restaurant candle light things
or if you are trying to make your own ethanol
Ex of a hydrocarbon
gasoline
Lamp oils, gasoline, kerosenes… can cause this type of poisoning in kids
hydrocarbon
How hydrocarbon poisoning presents
Kids can aspirate it very easily, even through a closed glottis
hydrocarbons wipe out surfactant
causes horrible pneumonitis
How does organophosphate poisoning present?
Think kid on a farm
It’s the opposite of anticholinergic poisoning
Its over the top extreme cholinergic poisoning
So all the glandular glands are over active
so the kid will be: salivating, lacrimating, vomiting, diarrhea, sweaty, etc
small pupils
and bradycardia*** but actually could also be tachy
Pilocarpine
= cholinergic agonist aka a parasympathetic agent
used to treat dry mouth
so it makes the mouth wetter
and causes small pupils
What is the thing that will kill you in organophosphate poisoning?
Pulmonary edema
from pulmonary secretions
and bronchospasm
and seizures/status epilepticus
and paralysis–yikes–from overstimulation of receptors on muscles (just like how succinylcholine works)
How to treat organophosphate poisoning:
Give atropine (an anti cholinergic drug) to dry the excessive secretions, including pulmonary secretions
And, give an oxene, which will literally take the organophosphate off of the acetylcholinesterase enzyme
How do organophosphates work?
they bind to acetylcholinesterase and block it
that’s how they cause organophosphate aka cholinergic poisoning
MOA of CO poisoning:
CO is a potent mitochondrial inhibitor
It prevents ATP formation
Symptoms of CO poisoning:
First, affects the organs that use ATP the most – the heart and the brain. You get headaches, nausea, ataxia….. progresses to tachycardia, hypotension, coma, seizures, death
How to treat CO poisoning
OXYGEN oxygen and more oxygen
Keep kids away from prenatal vitamins because of this severe danger:
acute iron toxicity
Symptoms of iron toxicity:
First, you get GI symptoms, because iron is a potent GI irritant. So after you eat it, you get severe nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, bad GI symptoms.
Then once it’s absorbed into the body, you get hypotensive, metabolic acidosis, coma, organ damage
because lots of free iron has no where to bind, causes free radicals to form and lots of organ damage
When free iron hits the mitochondria, what happens?
You stop making ATP
How to treat acute iron poisoning:
deferoxamine (iron chelator)
A normal lead level should be
under 5
At what level do you think about giving chelation therapy for lead toxicity?
45 or higher
When lead levels are WAY too high, you worry about this toxic effect of lead:
cerebral edema
Chelator we use to treat lead toxicity at a level of 45 or higher, but without acute encephalopathy:
Succimer or also called DMSA (dimercaptosuccinic acid)
makes you pee out the lead
What is Succimer, or DMSA?
= an oral lead chelator
If a child is acutely encephalopathic from lead toxicity, how do you need to treat them?
In this case, need to use these two agents together: BAL (British anti lewisite, a painful IM med) and EDTA
Most common bacterial cause of diarrhea is
E. coli
What type of E.coli causes common traveler’s diarrhea?
ETEC (enterotoxigenic e.coli)
What kind of E.coli causes infantile diarrhea outbreaks in daycares?
EPEC (enteropathogenic E.coli)
p for puny
the little ones get it
What type of E. coli diarrhea is associated with HUS?
EHEC (enteroHEMORRHAGIC e.coli) aka 0157
HUS = hemolytic uremic syndrome
Name two bacterial causes of diarrhea other than E.coli:
Yersinia
Shigella
How does Yersinia sometimes present?
As “pseudoappendicitis”
aka diarrhea + RLQ pain
Is the BRAT diet (bananas, rice, applesauce and toast) necessary for kids who have bacterial diarrhea?
nope
4 most common bugs that causes sepsis and meningitis in neonates:
GBS
E. coli
Strep pneumo
Staph
(in infants 1 - 12 months of age, it’s this same list, + also salmonella)
This syndrome is caused by loss of gene activity on the maternally acquired chromosome 15 in the 15q11-13 region:
Angelman syndrome
If the deletion or inactivation of this same area came from the FATHER’s side, then the child will have Prader-Wili syndrome
How does Angelman syndrome present?
Microcephaly and developmental delays starting at 6 months of age
near absent speech wide based, ataxic gait easily excited and laughing child hand flapping protruding tongue and unique facial features
What causes cri-du-chat syndrome?
A deletion of part of chromosome 5
How does SCFE (aka slipped capital femoral epiphysis) present?
Usually in a pre teen or young teenager who is at peak linear growth velocity, has several weeks to months of hip/thigh/groin/knee pain and a painful limp
Which endocrine conditions are associated with SCFE?
hypothyroidism
obesity
hypogonadal conditions
What are brush field spots and who commonly has them?
Seen in patients with Trisomy 21
= small, whitish-gray spots on the iris
What is Mullerian aplasia, and what is the other name for this condition?
Other name: Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser synrome)
it’s when the mullerian duct, aka vagina, uterus and fallopian tubes, don’t develop
However, the rest of the female anatomy and all hormones and chromosomes are normal
How does mullerian aplasia usually present?
With primary amenorrhea
In a teen found to then have no uterus
However external female anatomy is normal
and breasts and pubic hair will still be tanner stage 5
Long term side effect of etoposide
can induce high risk AML or ALL within 3 years of exposure
True or false: Breast cancer is increased in survivors of Hodgkin lymphoma.
True (chest radiation is part of treatment).
Perinatally acquired HPV warts can show up until this age:
up to 20 months
If two live vaccines (for ex varicella and MMR) are not given on the same day, they need to be separated by at least this much time:
4 weeks or more
this is because if the second vaccine is given less than 4 weeks later, the antibody response to the first vaccine may decrease the efficacy of the immune response to the 2nd vaccine
(why is this only the case with live vaccines? hmm)
Iron absorption is enhanced by
ascorbic acid (aka vitamin c)
What is the most specific lab finding for iron deficiency?
a low serum ferritin (like less than 15)
If a permanent tooth is avulsed, how do you save it?
Hold it by the crown and rinse with water
Then reimplant it and hold it in place on way to dentist if child is cooperative
If child is not cooperative and might aspirate the tooth, then instead put the tooth in cold cow’s milk (safe, isotonic, does not harm the root)
the tooth will remain viable for 1- maybe 2 hours