Newman Flashcards
Respiratorty distress in children
Ok
Most emergencies in kids
Are respiratory
Untreated respiratory distress
Cardiac arrest, cardiopulmonary failure
So want to intervene before it gets to that point
-bag or intubate
Cardiac arrest in kids
Usually due to progressive respiratory failrue->bradycardia, hypotension, cardiac arrest
What caues cardiopulm arrest in kids
Respiratory failure, cardiac failure, trauma, infection blah blah
At door what see
Appearance, breathing, circulation
The pediatric triangle
Flaring, gasping, dyspnea, pale, cyanotic, mottling pale, doesn’t always mean poor circulation, can be cold)
Nostrils flare indication of respiratory distress
Somnolent, lethargic, not moving, not interacting
Severe hypoxia, hypercarbia, Andorra respiratory fatigue
If haven’t intervened and HR goes down
Dwindle
If incosable by mom or nurse or if kid don’t want to be touched
Bad sign
Take note of all the info before you
Examine
Kid grunt
Effort to keep airway open longer
RSV season
Progressive-closing glottis to keep airway open
Slow, irregular respiratory pattern int he setting of respiratory distress is
Ominous sign
Body position in respiratory distress
Lean forward try to expand intrathoracici volume
Stridor
Croup, foreign body, inspiratory Barky cough
Narrow larynx or trachea
Wheezing
Squeaking noise by air in narrow tracheobronchial airway
Rales
Crackles, air passing through narrowed bronchi
-air through fluid, pneumonia
HR changes
Up with respi compromise then lose ability to compensate(hypoxia sets in) get bradycardia
Always O2 sat
Normal O2 sat
95 or higher
Hypercarbia
In resp distress co2 goes up, pH goes down , acidic , body hates this
Severely upper airway obstruction
Foreign body-doodling cant cough
Angioedema, epiglottis
Tension pneumothorax
Intervening can be lifesaving
Causes shift of mediastinal to side away from air leak, compresses the heart and good lunge
Can’t see lung markings
Signs of tension pneumothorax
Heart drop, sat droppping , respiratory distress
Put needle in and swoooooosh
Cardiac tamponade
Blood, serous fluid, air fill pericardial sack with life threatening compromise of venous return and cardiac stroke volume
Lupus with pericarditis, post op
Rare in kids
Becks triad of cardiac tamponade
Jugular venous distention, muffled cardiac sounds, hypotension (1/3 with cardiac tamponade)
Reropharyngeal and peritonsillar abscess
Sore throat, difficulty swallowing and oral pain, swelling
Hoarse voice
Can obstruct airway
Base of uvula shifted away from inflammation think peritonsilar absence
Retropharyngeal-of pharynx pushed up towards you
Croup
Acute laryngotracheobronchitis
Most common cause of infectious airway obstruction in kids 6 -36 months
Usually parainfluenza virus, or allergiv(less common)tracheitis is most often a secondary bacterial infection to croup kids
STRIDOR-CROUP
October to March
Vocal cord
Bronchiolitis
RSV
Wheeze
Less than 2
No treat-just supportive can wheeze forever
Mycoplasma viral
Can cause lobar pneumia and pleural effusions
Asthma
Inflammation, edema, bronchospasm, mucus
Triggers: infection, exercise, environmental irritants, stress GERD
Sudden worsening
Sudden changes can be due toalveolar disease and/atelectasis
Highest risk group for asthma for sudden death from asthma
Adolescence-teens , they don’t want to carrry medicine
Bronchioles
Asthma
Asthma cxr
Perihilar junkiness , bronchioles, rest of lungs kind of streaky,
CXR asthma attack
Lung expansion bilateral flattening of diaphragm
What most commonly causes anaphylaxis in kids
Food or meds
Life threatening, lips tingle, throat close,
*epinephrine !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Drug of choice
Foreign body resp distress
Sudden dramatic choking
Trachea body
Coughing, choking when FB is first ingested
Stridor, drooling choking if upper airway obstructed
Past carina where is foreign body
Right mainstem bronchus
Lower foreign body-cough, choking with first ingested
Delayed symptoms..recurrent pneumonia, chronic cough
Esophagus foreign body
Drooling swallowing problems
40% foreign bodies
No one knows there, no one saw it
Age group at risk for foreign body aspiration
1.5-3
Choking hazard
Button batteries if into trachea or esophagus within four hours corrode the mucosa and get tracheoesophageal fistula
How get foreign body out of trachea
Bronchoscopy
What happens when something gets in right mainstem bronchus
Ballvalve, air trapped, inspiratory and expiratory film can see!!!!!!
Put it together with ingestion and think right mainstem bronchus
Congenital or acquired CNS disesase
Neuromuscular delay-respiratory distress usually from chronic hypoventilation, infectious, trauma, medication, cerebral palsy
Reckless cell disease
Acute chest syndome-> sudden onset respiratory distress and chest pain, new infiltrates on cxr, fever
Sickle cell
If see kid with new infiltrate on x ray and have fever and resp distress think acute chest syndrome……..ACUTE CHEST SYNDROME
Hostpital antibiotics, oxygen, and pain control
Asthma is ___
Reversible
Diagnose asthma
Reversibility either spontaneously or with bronchodilator therapy
Limitation of airflow on pulmonary function testing or positive broncho-privation challenge
-methacholine challenge
Cough at night, cough exercising-make sure bronchospasm is part of differential
Asthma
Tightening smooth muscle that lines airway
Obstruction/inflammation
Mucus plugs