Neonatology Flashcards
APGAR
2 points = heart rate > 100, resp good crying, muscle tone active motion, reflex irritability- cough/sneeze, cry, color pink!
1 point = brady, slow irreg breath, some flexion, grimace, body pink w/ blue extremities
Exam
General observation, skin exam w/ lanugo in preemies, vernix caseosa (thick creamy in preterm infant), acrocyanosis pretty normal, cutis marmorata (mottling) b/c of vasomotor instability
Pallor can ban be asphyxia/shock/sepsis
Jaundice
always abnormal in first 24 hours
subsequently often seen during first few days after birth, no serious disease
Milia
small cysts around pilosebaceous cysts
Mongolian spots
dark blue bruise areas, lumbosacral/buttocks, no pathologic, hispanic, asian, AA
Pust
Benign transient rash dry superficial vesicles over dark macular base, often in AAs, different from viral infections like HSV and impetigo
Erythema toxicum neonatorum
Benign rash in first 72 hours after birth, fela bites on trunk/extrmeities (not palms and soles), 50% of ful-term infants, much less in preterm. eosinophils in lesions
Nevus simplex
salmon patch, most common vasc lesion, 30-40% of newborns, pink macular lesion on nabe of neck, upper eyelids, glabella (between eyebrows), nasolabial region
Nevus flammeus
Port wine stain, dilated capillary like vessles over face/trunk, maybe in area of opthalmic branch of trigem/maybe as part of Sturge-Weber (intracranial/spinal vasc malform)
Strawberry hemangiomas
Benign prolif vascular tumors in 10% infants, often noticed after birth, grown, then resolve in 18-24 months
Neonatal acne
0% of newborns, 1-2 weeks after life, never present at birth. no tx needed
Microcephaly
head circ below 10th percentile, familial, structural brain malform, chromosomal/malform syndromes, fas
Caput succedaneium
Diffuse edema of soft tissue, crosses cranial sutures, involving parietal/occiptial bones
Craniosynostosis
Premature fusion of cranial sututres which may result in abnormal shape and size of skull
Craniotabes
Soft areas of skull w/ ping-pong ball feel, maybe parietal bones, not related to rickets, usually disappear
Ears
assess maturity, should be firm w/ characteristic shape, look for preauricular tags/sinuses, and appropriate shape/location
Eyes
Abnormal red reflex= cataracts, glaucoma, retinoblastoma, severe chorioretinitis
Nose
examine immediately, rule out choanal atreasia (try to pass ng tube if suspct)
Clefts
lip/soft/hard palate inspect
submucous clefs in soft portion of the palate ruled out by digital palpation
clefts may be associated w/ other dysmorphic features
Micrognathia
small chin + cleft palate + glossoptosis, upper airway obstruction in Pierre Robin syndrome
Macroglassia
Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (hemihypertrophy visceromegaly, macroglossia), or hypothyroidism, or a mucopolysaccharoidosis)
Neonatal teeth
rare, usually in lower area of incisors
Epstein pearls
small white epidermoid mucoid cysts, disappear on own
Neck cysts
Lateral neck cycst = branchial cleft and cystic hygroma