Neonatology Flashcards

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What is the newborn period defined as?

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First 28 days of life

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Key components of newborn medical history?

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  1. Parents medical/genetic hx
  2. Maternal past obstretic hx
  3. Current antepartum and intrapartum obstretic hx
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What is the Apgar score?

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Infant evaluation at birth (0 is not good, 2 is good)

  • HR
  • Respiratory effort
  • Muscle tone
  • Response to catheter in nostril
  • Color
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Describe circumcision’s place in medicine

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Elective procedure to be performed only in healthy, stable infants

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Medical benefits of circumcision

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  • Prevention of phimosis, paraphimosis, balanoposthitis, UTI

- Later benefits: decreased penile cancer, STIs

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Risks of circumcision

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  • Local infection
  • Bleeding
  • Removal of too much skin
  • Urethral injury
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What circumcision techniques are preferred?

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Ones that allow visualization (Plastibell and Gomco clamps) preferred over blind techniques (Mogen clamp)

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Mogen clamp use in circumcision

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  • Blind technique
  • Not preferred
  • Risk of glans amputation
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Contraindications to circumcision

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Infants with genital abnormalities (e.g. hypospadia)

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10
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How are newborns screened for hearing abnormalities?

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Universal screening with auditory brainstem recording

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General causes of pathologic unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia

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  • Overproduction of bilirubin (either hemolytic or nonhemolytic)
  • Decreased rate of conjugation
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What are the hemolytic causes of increased bilirubin production?

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  • Immune mediated (positive Coombs)
  • Nonimmune (negative Coombs)
  • Bacterial or viral sepsis
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How to tell if the overproduction of bilirubin is hemolytic or nonhemolytic?

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  • Hemolytic causes will have an increased retic count

- Nonhemolytic causes will have normal retic count

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Nonhemolytic causes of increased bilirubin production?

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  • Extravascular hemorrhage (cephalohematoma)
  • Polycythemia
  • Exaggerated enterohepatic circulation (bowel obstruction)
  • Breast feeding associated jaundice (inadequate intake)
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15
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Main causes of decreased rate of bilirubin conjugation

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  1. Crigler-Najjar syndrome (rare and severe)
  2. Gilbert syndrome (common, milder)
  3. Hypothyroidism (maybe?)
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16
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What is MC: Crigler-Najjar or Gilbert syndrome?

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Gilbert syndrome

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17
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What do Crigler-Najjar and Gilbert syndromes cause?

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Decreased rate of bilirubin conjugation

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18
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What is kernicterus? What is it characterized by?

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Chronic bilirubin encephalopathy of the neonatal period

  • Extrapyramidal movement disorder
  • Gaze abnormality
  • Auditory disturbances
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19
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What is considered neonatal hypoglycemia?

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Blood glucose under 45 mg/dL

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20
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Clinical presentation of hypoglycemia in infants

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  • May be asymptomatic

- Lethargy, poor feeding, irritability, seizures

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21
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Which infants are at risk for hypoglycemia?

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  • Large for gestational age (LGA)
  • Small for gestational age (SGA)
  • Preterm
  • Stressed
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22
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Clinical presentation of respiratory distress in a term infant

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  • Tachypnea (RR over 60)
  • Intercostal and sternal retractions
  • Expiratory grunting
  • Cyanosis in room air
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23
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Describe neonatal murmurs

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Heart murmurs are common in the first days of life and do not usually signify structural heart problems

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24
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What does a murmur present at birth indicate?

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A valvular problem

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25
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What is recommended to identify congenital heart disease in newborns?

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Pulse ox prior to discharge (anything under 95% at sea level needs echo)

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26
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MC birth injuries?

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  • Soft tissue bruising
  • Fractures (clavicle, humerus, femur)
  • Cervical plexus palsies
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27
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Features observed in fetal alcohol syndrome

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  • Short palpebral fissures
  • Thin vermillion of upper lip
  • Pre and postnatal growth deficiency
  • Microcephaly
  • Optic nerve hypoplasia
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28
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Why have multiple births increased in the US?

A

Assisted reproductive technologies

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29
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What type of twins are more at risk for twin-twin transfusion syndrome and congenital anomalies?

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Monochorial (identical)

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30
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What is twin to twin transfusion syndrome?

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  • Disease of the placenta that affects identical twins

- Disproportionate blood supply

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31
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When can intrauterine growth restriction start in twins?

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32 weeks

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32
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When can intrauterine growth restriction start in triplets?

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26-27 weeks

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33
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Cerebral palsy is MC in what type of twins?

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Monochorial (identical)

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34
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How does the length of gestation relate to multiple births?

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More fetuses typically results in shorter gestation period

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35
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What are potential obstretic complications in multiple births?

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  • Polyhydramnios
  • Pregnancy induced HTN
  • PROM
  • Abnormal fetal presentations
  • Prolapsed umbilical cord
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36
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When asphyxia occurs at birth, what best predicts neurologic outcome (risk of CP)?

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10 min Apgar score (better predictor than the 5 min score)

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37
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What is the MC cause of respiratory distress in preterm infants?

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Hyaline membrane disease (RDS type 1)

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Describe hyaline membrane disease (RDS type 1)

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  • Surfactant deficiency in alveoli (in production and inactivation due to protein leak)
  • MC cause of resp distress in preterm infants
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CXR findings of hyaline membrane disease

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  • Hypoaerated
  • Air bronchograms
  • Ground glass (reticulogranular)
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Describe transient tachypnea of the newborn (RDS type 2) including how to treat

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  • AKA retained fetal lung fluid
  • A/w precipitous or C-section without labor
  • O2 support w/resolution usually in 12-24 hrs
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41
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What is bronchopulmonary dysplasia?

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  • Major sequelae of neonatal respiratory distress
  • Used to be MC in premies that required prolonged mechanical ventilation
  • Less severe now bc of surfactant, prenatal glucocorticoids, revised ventilation strategies
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42
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What is the pathology of bronchopulmonary dysplasia?

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Inflammation, hypercellularity then fibrosis

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43
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Risk factors for bronchopulmonary dysplasia

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  • Oxygen required over 28 days
  • History of PPV or CPAP
  • Premature gestational age
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44
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What reduces the risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia in newborns?

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Early use of surfactant

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45
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Signs of PDA?

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  • Hyperdynamic precordium
  • Widened pulse pressure
  • Hypotension
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When does PDA usually present in a newborn?

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Days 3-7 as the respiratory distress from hyaline membrane disease (HMD) is improving

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Treatment of PDA

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  • Medical ligation (initially effective in 2/3 pts, indomethacin)
  • Surgical ligation if indomethacin fails (mortality of 1-10%)
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48
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What is the MC acquired GI emergency in the newborn?

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Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)

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Risk factors for NEC

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  • Preterm infants

- Full term infants with polycythemia, congenital heart disease, birth asphyxia

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Signs of NEC

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  • Feeding intolerance w/gastric residuals
  • Vomiting
  • Bloody stools
  • Abd distention/tenderness
  • Pneumatosis intestinalis on KUB
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51
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Symptoms of anemia in infants

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  • Poor feeding
  • Lethargy
  • Tachycardia
  • Poor weight gain
  • Periodic breathing (?)
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52
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What to know about treatment of an asymptomatic infant with low hematocrit?

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Transfusion is NOT indicated

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53
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Clinical presentation of intraventricular hemorrhages in infants?

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  • Small bleeds can be asymp

- Larger cause hypotension, metabolic acidosis, altered neuro status

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54
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Periventricular-intraventricular hemorrhage occurs almost exclusively in _____

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Premature infants (20-30% in infants under 31 weeks EGA and under 1500 g)

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Describe an intraventricular hemorrhage

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Ischemia with reperfusion injury to the capillaries in the germinal matrix in the immediate perinatal period

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56
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CNS complications a/w an intraventricular hemorrhage are MC in which pts?

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Preterm infants exposed antenatally to intrauterine infection

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57
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Describe retinopathy of prematurity (ROP)

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Occurs only in the incompletely vascularized premature retina

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58
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Describe the risk of severe ROP

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Inversely proportional to gestational age

59
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How is ROP graded?

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Stages of abnormal vascular development and retinal detachment

60
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Rate of preterm births in the US?

A

Increased over 30% in the past 30 years

61
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Which type of preterm births have increased the most in the US?

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Late preterm births (34 0/7 to 36 6/7 weeks EGA)

62
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How do cyanotic congenital heart defects present in newborns?

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  • Cyanosis (initially w/o associated resp distress)
  • Failure to increase PaO2 w/supplemental O2
  • Decreased lung markings on CXR suggests R heart obstruction
63
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What CXR finding suggests right heart obstruction?

A

Decreased lung markings

64
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What are the cyanotic congenital heart defects?

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  1. Truncus arteriosus
  2. Transposition of great vessels
  3. Tricuspid atresia
  4. Tetralogy of Fallot
  5. Total anomalous pulm venous return
65
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Describe acyanotic heart disease in newborns

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  • Most have L sided outflow obstruction

- Metabolic acidemia

66
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CXR findings of acyanotic heart disease in newborns

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Large heart and pulmonary edema

67
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Describe persistent pulmonary hypertension

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  • Newborn with some pulm condition (aspiration of meconium, pneumonia)
  • Pulm vascular resistance does NOT decrease
  • This leads to hypoxia with poor response to high concentrations of inspired oxygen
68
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What is persistent fetal circulation most often associated with?

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Parenchymal lung disease

69
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Which infants are MC affected by persistent fetal circulation?

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Full term or postterm

70
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Treatment goals of persistent fetal circulation

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  • Increase systemic arterial pressure

- Decrease pulm arterial pressure to reverse the R-L shunt

71
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Treatment of persistent fetal circulation

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  • Oxygen/ventilation and crystalloid infusions (1st)
  • Systemic pressors if compromised cardiac function (2nd line)
  • Correction of metabolic acidemia
72
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Why does metabolic acidemia need to be corrected in persistent fetal circulation?

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Acidemia exacerbates pulmonary vasoconstriction

73
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If conventional therapy fails, what should be used as treatment for persistent fetal circulation?

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Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) - lungs put at rest

74
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Complications of persistent fetal circulation

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10-15% will develop neuro sequelae:

  • Cerebral palsy or cognitive delays
  • Chronic lung disease, sensorineural hearing loss, feeding problems (all less common)
75
Q

MC arrhythmias seen in newborns?

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PACs (less often PVCs)

76
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Describe PACs in newborns

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  • Irregularly irregular
  • Common during 1st few days of life
  • Benign and resolve within 1st week
77
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Treatment of tachyarrhythmias in newborns?

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  • Ice to the face (vagal)
  • IV adenosine
  • Long term therapy is digoxin or propranolol
78
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Describe intestinal atresia in newborns. How is it diagnosed? What can cause it?

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  • Narrowing or absence of a portion of intestine
  • Surgical emergency!
  • Often diagnosed prenatally by US
  • Can be caused by polyhydramnios
79
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X-ray findings of intestinal atresia

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Double bubble

80
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Clinical presentation of intestinal atresia

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Bilious (green, yellow) vomiting and distention soon after birth

81
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What do most cases of intestinal atresia present with?

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Other congenital anomalies (54% of cases)

82
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Treatment of intestinal atresia

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Duodenoduodenostomy

83
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Clinical presentation of intestinal malrotation

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  • Usually present in first 3 wks of life with bilious vomiting
  • Later presentations may be undiagnosed (intermittent obstruction, malabsorption, diarrhea)
84
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Imaging of intestinal malrotation

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  • Plain film (double bubble or just no distal gas)
  • UGI (gold standard, 96% sensitive)
  • Barium enema for confirmation (to locate cecum)
85
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What is the gold standard imaging for intestinal malrotation?

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UGI - 96% sensitive

86
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What is the Ladd procedure?

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  • Treatment of intestinal malrotation
  • Duodenum mobilized
  • Mesenteric root extended
  • Bowel fixed in more normal layout
87
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Treatment of intestinal malrotation

A

Ladd procedure

88
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Describe cystic fibrosis

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  • Autosomal recessive
  • 1 in 40 people are carriers
  • Causes defects in water and salt movement leading to thick secretions
89
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Effects of CF on lungs, GI, and male reproductive?

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  • Lungs: mucus plugging, poor clearance
  • GI: meconium ileus, pancreatic insufficiency
  • Male infertility
90
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Clinical presentation of CF in infants

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  • Meconium ileus (15% pts)
  • Failure to thrive (FTT) with good appetite and frequent stools
  • Chronic airway infections start in 1st year leading to bronchiectasis
91
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Describe Hirschsprung disease

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  • Congenital megacolon

- Absence of ganglion cells in colon

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Clinical presentation of Hirschsprung disease

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  • Colonic muscles fail to relax in front of advancing bolus
  • Vomiting, distention, failure to pass meconium
  • Toxic megacolon in 50% pts (enterocolitis w/fever, explosive diarrhea)
93
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Diagnosis of Hirschsprung disease

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Unprepped barium enema

-Shows distinct transition point between narrow distal and dilated proximal colon

94
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Treatment of Hirschsprung disease

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Surgical resection with diversion or pull through

95
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What is an omphalocele?

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  • Abdominal wall defect

- Membrane covered herniation of abd contents into base of umbilical cord

96
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What do most cases of omphalocele present with?

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Either an abnormal karyotype or an associated syndrome (over 50% cases)

97
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What is gastroschisis?

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  • Abdominal wall defect
  • Uncovered intestine through abdominal wall to the right of umbilical cord
  • NO membrane or sac (like omphalocele)
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How does gastroschisis differ from omphalocele?

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Both are abdominal wall defects in newborns, but omphalocele is membrane covered and gastroschisis is UNCOVERED

99
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Epidemiology of gastroschisis

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  • Prevalence increasing worldwide

- Environmental risk factors: illicit drugs (meth, cocaine) and COX inhibitors (ASA, ibuprofen)

100
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Treatment of gastroschisis

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  • Silastic bowel bag to decrease fluid and electrolyte losses
  • Surgery
101
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Prognosis of gastroschisis

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Bowel motility, especially duodenal, may be slow to return

102
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Describe congenital diaphragmatic hernia

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  • Abdominal wall defect
  • Herniation of abd contents through posterolateral defect
  • Failure of diaphragm fusion
  • Bowel blocks space for lungs to grow resulting in lung hypoplasia
  • 80% involve L diaphragm
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Clinical presentation of congenital diaphragmatic hernia

A
  • Can be found incidentally at autopsy

- Respiratory distress with scaphoid abdomen

104
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How to treat congenital diaphragmatic hernia

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Early intubation WITHOUT bag and mask (this causes bowel to inflate and makes lung function even worse)

105
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What should be considered in GI bleeds of newborns?

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Could be maternal blood (not even from the infant)

106
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When is GERD in an infant pathologic and should be treated?

A
  • Failure to thrive
  • Poor intake d/t dysphagia and irritability
  • Apnea or cyanotic episode
  • Wheezing and recurrent PNA
107
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How to diagnose GERD in infant?

A

Clinical diagnosis

108
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What should be considered in the treatment of GERD in infants?

A

Most antireflux therapies have NOT been studied enough in infants (especially premature)

109
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Treatment options for GERD in the infant

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  • Thickened feeds
  • Gastric acid suppressants
  • Prokinetic agents are of little benefit and have significant side effects
  • Aging (GERD improves w/time)
110
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What are the major routes of perinatal infection?

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  1. Bloodborne transplacental
  2. Disruption of the barrier provided by amniotic membranes allowing infection to ascend
  3. Passage through an infected birth canal or exposure to infected blood at delivery
111
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What provides passive protection to a fetus against some infectious organisms?

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Transfer of IgG across the placenta (particularly during 3rd trimester)

112
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Describe early onset sepsis in a newborn including presentation

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  • First 7 days of life
  • Resp distress MC
  • Hypotension, acidemia, neutropenia
113
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Describe late onset sepsis in a newborn

A
  • More subtle than early onset

- Poor feeding, lethargy, hypotonia, temp instability, altered perfusion

114
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What increases newborn infection rates?

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  • ROM over 24 hrs prior to delivery
  • Early rupture w/chorioamnionitis
  • Preterm infant (5 times higher risk)
115
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MC pathogens of early onset infection in newborns?

A
  • Group B hemolytic strep (GBS)

- Gram neg enteric (E coli)

116
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MC pathogens of late onset sepsis in newborns?

A

Coagulase-negative staph (MC in infants w/indwelling central lines)

117
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Treatment of early onset infections in newborns

A

Ampicillin and aminoglycoside (or 3rd generation cephalosporin)

118
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Treatment of late onset infections in newborns

A
  • Same coverage as early onset but expanded coverage for staph
  • Vancomycin esp for preterm infants w/indwelling line
119
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Describe neonatal meningitis

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  • Low risk for infant presenting in first 24 hrs
  • Late onset infection is MC
  • MC organisms are GBS and gram negative enteric (E coli)
120
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Early onset neonatal infection is usually associated with what?

A

Pneumonia

121
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Neonatal pneumonia is usually a/w what type of infection?

A
  • Early onset infection

- May be bacterial OR viral

122
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Describe neonatal UTIs

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  • UNCOMMON in first days of life
  • Can suggest GU anomalies
  • MC Gram negative enteric (E. coli) or Enterococcus
123
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Describe neonatal omphalitis

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  • Infection of the umbilical stump
  • Strep, staph, or gram negative organisms
  • Erythema and edema around stump
124
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Possible complications of neonatal omphalitis

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  • Septic thrombophlebitis
  • Hepatic abscess
  • Necrotizing fasciitis
  • Portal vein thrombosis
125
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Describe neonatal conjuctivitis caused by N. gonorrhoeae

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  • Colonizes an infant during passage through infected canal

- Presents at 3-7 days w/copious purulent conjunctivitis

126
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Describe neonatal conjuctivitis caused by C. trachomatis

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  • Acquired at birth after passage through infected birth canal
  • Presents at 5 days to several weeks of age w/congestion, edema, minimal discharge
127
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Topical optho treatment of neonatal conjunctivitis caused by C. trachomatis?

A

Alone it will NOT eradicate nasopharyngeal carriage and leaves risk for pneumonitis

128
Q

Which infants are MC affected by Vit K deficiency?

A

Exclusively breast fed children

129
Q

How can early (0-2 weeks) vitamin K deficiency bleeding be prevented?

A

Either parenteral or oral vit K

130
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How can late (2 wks-6 mos) vit K deficiency be prevented?

A

Parenteral vit K

131
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Describe neonatal thrombocytopenia

A
  • Platelets under 10-20,000

- Generalized petechiae, oozing at cord or puncture sites

132
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In a well infant, what should be suspected if thrombocytopenic?

A

Isoimmune thrombocytopenia

133
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In a sick or asphyxiated infant, what should be suspected if thrombocytopenic?

A

DIC

134
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Treatment of neonatal thrombocytopenia

A

Transfusion of platelets indicated if:

  • Clinical bleeding
  • Plt ct under 10-20,000
  • Preterm infant at risk for intraventricular hemorrhage (or plt under 40-50,000)
135
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Prognosis of infants who have mothers with ITP?

A

Low risk for serious hemorrhage despite thrombocytopenia

136
Q

Describe neonatal anemia and causes

A

Hct under 40% at term birth

  • Acute blood loss
  • Chronic blood loss
  • Hemolytic anemia
137
Q

Labs to work up neonatal anemia?

A
  • CBC
  • Blood smear
  • Retic count
  • Type
  • Direct and indirect Coombs
138
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How does neonatal polycythemia present?

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Plethora, tachypnea, retractions, hypoxemia

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Pathophys of polycythemia

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Hyperviscosity with decreased perfusion of capillary bed

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Etiology of neonatal polycythemia

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50% are appropriate weight for gestational age (AGA) so etiology is indeterminant

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Treatment of neonatal polycythemia

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Only recommended for symptomatic

-Isovolemic partial exchange transfusion with normal saline (decreases Hct)

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Clinical presentation of neonatal renal failure

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  • Birth depression, hypovolemia, hypotension, shock
  • Low or delayed urine output
  • Rising serum Cr
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Role of prenatal US for renal issues?

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Identifies many renal anomalies prior to birth - MC hydronephrosis

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Describe neonatal stroke

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  • Often occurs antenatally

- MC clinical presentation: seizures (focal or generalized)