Neonatology presentations and DDX Flashcards
Potential presentation from a neonate and potential causes
What are the common causes of Postnatal collapse? (2)
- Sepsis
2. Congenital heart disease
What are the less common causes of Postnatal collapse? (1)
- Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
What are the common causes of Jaundice? (4)
- Physiological
- Breast milk jaundice
- Sepsis (Group B strep infection)
- Feeding difficulties
What are the less common causes of Jaundice? (5)
- Biliary atresia
- Hypothyroidism
- Haemolytic disease of the newborn
- G6PD deficiency
- Hereditary spherocytosis
What are the common causes of Rashes of the newborn? (3)
- Nappy rash (irritant, candida, seborrhoiec)
- Milia, erythema toxicum
- Mongolian blue spot
What are the less common causes of Rashes of the newborn? (3)
- Seborrheic dermatitis
- Haemangioma
- Congenital infection (CMV)
What are the common causes of Jittery baby? (1)
- Hypoglycaemia
What are the less common causes of Jittery baby? (3)
- Drug withdrawal (neonatal abstinence syndrome)
- Hypocalcaemia
- Congenital infection (CMV)
What are the common causes of Seizures/abnormal neurology? (2)
- Hypoglycaemia
2. Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy
What are the less common causes of Seizures/abnormal neurology? (5)
- Drug withdrawal
- Benign neonatal myoclonus
- Shoulder dystocia (Erb palsy)
- Metabolic disease
- CNS infection (Meningitis, HSV, encephalitis)
What are the common causes of Breathing difficulty? (3)
- Transient tachypnoea of the newborn (TTN)
- Sepsis
- Pneumonia
What are the less common causes of Breathing difficulty? (3)
- Meconium aspiration
- Pneumothorax
- Congenital anomaly (diaphragmatic hernia, trache-oesophageal fistula)
What are the common causes of Blue baby? (1)
- Cyanotic congenital heart disease
What are the less common causes of Blue baby? (1)
- Sepsis
What are the common causes of Feeding difficulties/weight loss >10%? (1)
- Inexperience mother
What are the less common causes of Feeding difficulties/weight loss >10%? (2)
- Any other conditions above
2. Tongue tie
What are the common problems that preterm/small baby suffer would you consider? (7)
- Breast feeding difficulties
- Respiratory distress syndrome (surfactant deficiency)
- Patent ductus arteriosus
- Hypoglycaemia
- Hypo and hypernatraemia
- Anaemia, jaundice, infection
- Hypothermia
What are the less common problems preterm/small babies you might consider? (5)
- Necrotising enterocolitis
- Retinopathy of prematurity
- Intraventricular haemorrhage
- Osteopenia of prematurity
- Neurodevelopmental disability (incl. complications such as reflux and aspiration)
