Neonatology Flashcards
Neonatal examination
First step after consent
wash hands and dry them
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What should be done if the baby is quiet
auscultate the heart first
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Signs to look about the baby’s skin color
- Pink
- Deep redness or purple color
- Acrocyanosis
- Pallor
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signs to look for the appearance of skin
- Vernix
- Lanugo hair
- Nails
- Pustular melanosis
- Milia
- Oral thrush
- nappy rash
- amoniacal dermatitis
- Erythema toxicum
- Mongolian blue spots
- Seborrhoeic dermatitis
- Hemangioma
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Fontanelle features
- wide
- Bulging
- Closed
- Sunken
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Fontanelle is also known as
- Soft spot
- Thel wala
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Reason for wide fontanelle
- Sutures seperating due to increased ICP
- Bone not formed- rickets
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normal size of fontanelle
2 fingerbreaths
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Purpose of fontanelle
to allow room for the brain to grow
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Reason for bulging fontanelle
Increased ICP( meningitis, Bleeding)
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Reason for sunken fontanelle
Dehydrated - Reduced breastfeeding
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Features to look for in the head
- Occipitofrontal circumference
- Fontanelle size
- Sutures- overriding, widely seperated
- Craniotabes
- Cephalhematoma
- Caput succedaneum
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Cephalhematoma
Bleeding under the periosteum on the parietal bones
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Caput succedaneum
Ecchymotic, edematous swelling of soft tissues
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Difference between cephalhematoma and caput succedaneum
cephalhematoma does not cross the midline and caput cross the midline
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Causes of the large anterior fontanelle
- congenital hypothyroidism
- Hydrocephalus
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Reasons for a small anterior fontanelle
- Microcephaly
- Craniosynostosis
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Features of face
- Dysmorphic features- epicanthic folds, microophthalmia, low set ears
- Eyes- Jaundice, Eye discharges, conjunctival/ retinal hemorrhages, red reflex, leukorrhea
- SIgns of facial nerve palsy
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Leukorrhea causes
- cataracts
- Tumors- retinoblastoma
- Persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous
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Ear
- Deformities
- Pre- auricular skin tags
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Mouth
- Precocious dentition
- Cleft lip/ palate
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Precocious dentition
- feeding difficulties
- risk of aspiration
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Chest
- Breast- hypertrophy, mastitis neonatorum, super numerary nipples
- Deformities- pectus excavatum, carinatum
- breathing pattern
- dyspnea, grunting
- Heart- location, HR, peripheral pulses
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Risk of super numerary nipples
more than 2 nipples- can cause CA
