Paediatrics Flashcards
Rinne test
AC>BC = Normal/SNHL
BC>AC= CHL
Tanner stages
I:
- 0–15 years
- None
II:
- 8–15 years
- Commencement of puberty
- Breast budding first
- Pubic hair
- Scrotal/Testicular growth, penis growth after a year
III:
- Increase in hair and pigmentation
Development of pubic hair
Girls: 8 years
Boys: 9 years
List of autosomal dominant diseases
D -dystrophy myotonia
O - osteogenisis imperfecta
M - Marfan’s
I - intermittent porphyria
N - Noonan’s
A - achondroplasia, familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP)
N - neurofibromatosis
T - Tuberous sclerosis
V- Von Willebrand
H - Huntington’s HNPCC
H - hereditary spherocytosis
H- familial hypocholesteraemia
R - retinoblastoma
List of autosomal recessive diseases
A - albinism
B - thalassaemia
C - cystic fibrosis
D - deafness
E - emphysema
F - Friederich’s ataxia (trinucleotide test, repeat GAA)
G - Gaucher’s disease
H Hemochromatosis, homocystinuria
S - sickle cell
P - phenylketonuria
N - Wilson’s
X - xeroderma pigmentosa
List of X-linked recessive diseases
D- diabetes insipidus
D - Duchenne’s
C - colour blindness
C - chronic granulomatous disease (membranous type)
F - Fabry’s disease (alpha- glucosidase deficiency)
F - fragile X syndrome (Martin Bell Syndrome)
2 blood - haemophilia. G6PD
2 syndrome Lesch Nylon syndrome, Wiskots Aldrich yndrome
SIADH in children
- hyponatremia
- excessive amount of ADH from hypothalamus-pituitary
SIADH in children symptoms
- mental changes (confusion, memory problems)
- seizures or worst case, coma
- nausea and vomiting
- headache
- problems with balance
SIADH in children causes
- type 2 DM medication:
- antiepileptic
- antidepressant
- surgery under general anaesthesia
- brain disorders, injury, infections, stroke
- lung disease (pneumonia, tuberculosis, cancer, chronic infections)
- cancer of lung, small intestine, brain, leukaemia
Addison’s disease in children
- 21-hydroxylase deficiency
- Dehydration, hypotension, and shock
- hyponatraemia with hyperkalaemia
Lymphoblastic leukaemia in children contraindications
- Live-attenuated vaccines contraindicated (MMRV, rotavirus, yellow fever)
Hyponatremia in children types
Dehydration: hypernatremia
Cardiac: Pseudohyponatremia
Addisons:
- Low aldosterone
- Hyperkalaemia
- hypotension
Hyponatraemic seizures in children
- increasing irritability
- increasing lethargy, - increasing tonic-clonic generalised
seizures - respond poorly to conventional anticonvulsants (phenytoin, phenobarbitone)
- address hyponatraemia by 3% NaCl solution
Hypernatremia in children appearance and initial management
- “doughy” skin
- Isotonic (normal) saline for an initial bolus
Most common long-term complication of streptococcus pneumonia meningitis in children
Deafness 11%
Intellectual disability (mental retardation)-4%.
-Spasticity and/or paresis-4 %.
-Seizure disorder-4 %
Weber’s test
Normal = lateralizes equally to both ears
CHL= lateralizes to abnormal ear
SNHL= lateralizes to the normal ear
Acute Otitis media risk factors
- Age (6-18 months)
- Lack of breastfeeding
- Day care attendance
- Smoke exposure
Pathogens that give arise to acute otitis media
- Streptococcus pneumoniae (most common)
- Nontypeable (?) Haemophilus influenzae
- Moraxella catarrhali
Complications of Otitis media
Acute mastoiditis
Acute mastoiditis pathogen
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Acute mastoiditis initial treatment
sample from the ear discharge should be taken for culture DONE BY ENT
flucloxacillin + a third-generation cephalosporin
Acute otitis media treatment
- Amoxicillin 1st choice (used for 1 week)
- 2nd line: amoxicillin-clavulanate
Acute otitis media treatment px that’s allergic to penicillin
- clindamycin
- azithromycin
Chronic suppurative otitis media treatment
Assess if tympanic membrane intact or perforated:
If intact: ciprofloxacin ear drops to treat on going infection
If perforated: initial treatment ear toilet with povidone-iodine solution, followed by
dry mopping with rolled toilet papers2 to 3 times a day using 20ml syringe with plastic tubing. In addition, ciprofloxacin ear drops
Untreated a tympanic membrane perforation secondary to chronic otitis media
- Marginal perforation with discharge
- Perforation that is surrounded by granulation tissue
- Continuously discharging central perforation
- Perforation associated with a cholesteatoma
Cholesteatoma risk factors
- history of recurrent acute otitis media
- chronic middle ear effusion
- tympanostomy tube placement
- history of cleft palate
Bilateral sensorineural deafness in children
Congenital sensorineural deafness.
Lymph nodes red flags
Weight loss
Sustained fever
Night sweats Generalized lymphadenopathy
Signs and symptoms of pancytopenia
Mass persisting> 6 weeks
Lymph node> 3 cm
Thyroid mass
Supraclavicular mass
Hard, irregular mass
Fixed mass
Weight: 1 standard deviation above/below the 50th percentile
Weight: overweight/underweight
Weight: 2 standard deviation above/below the 50th percentile
Weight: obese/severely underweight
Marfan’s syndrome (MFS) features
- autosomal dominant connective tissue
disorder (FBN1) - affects height
- does not affect weight
- aortic aneurysm
dissection, aortic regurgitation (Decrescendo high-pitched diastolic murmur at the left sternal edge) - Myopia and ectopic ocular lens.
Marfan’s syndrome (MFS) investigation
echocardiogram
Most common neurological cancers in children
Most common neurological symptoms in children with cancer
- Nausea
- Vomiting
Lymphadenopathy in children
viral upper respiratory tract infection
TB, Infectious
mononucleosis cytomegalovirus infection
Cat scratch disease
haematological and nonhematological malignancies, Kawasaki
disease.
Kawasaki disease features
- acute onset of fever more than 39C
-inadequate response to paracetamol - sole, palm and tongue erythema
- desquamation of fingertips (vasculitis)
- tender mass in the right hypochondrium
- elevated CRP and ESR
Kawasaki disease in children complications
- vasculitis leading to coronary artery aneurysm 17-31% (second week and second month
of illness)
-
Kawasaki disease in children management
- aspirin and immunoglobulins
-Steroids must be avoided
< 6 months + > 7 days fever + systemic
inflammation but no other explanation for febrile illness
Atypical Kawasaki
Growing pains
Growing pains refers to pain in the lower
extremities of growing active children.
children between 2 and 12 years with the peak
incidence in preschool children.
mostly felt in the thighs, calves and
behind the knee.
intermittent and in mostly present in the afternoon and evening after activity during the day.
Pain may also wake up the child at night.
male adolescent athlete + pain below the knee + tenderness
Osgood-Schlatter disorder
Osgood-Schlatter disorder management
Gentle quadriceps stretching exercises
- self limiting up to 12 months
NOTE: Corticosteroids are absolutely contraindicated
Perthes
- avascular necrosis of the femoral head.
4 -8 years of age
associated with hip pain and intermitent limp.
Perthes features
- Normal Caucasian boy
- 4 and 10 years, peak incidence at 5 to 7 years
- 15% bilateral
- widening of joint hip space
Hip pain result of necrosis of the involved bone
-pain may be referred to the medial aspect of the ipsilateral knee or to the lateral thigh. - The quadriceps muscles and adjacent thigh soft tissues may atrophy, and the hip may develop adduction flexion contracture
- antalgic gait with limited hip motion, or a Trendelenburg gate (abductor lurch).
- Pain may be present with passive range of motion and
limited hip movement, especially internal rotation and abduction
Perthes disease management
- refer to surgeon
Surgeon will make call on conservative or surgical
- conservative: brace
- surgical: osteotomy/femoral head fixation, hip replacement worst case
slipped capital femoral
epiphysis (SCFE)
- Overweight adolescent of 10 to15 years
- bilateral in 20%
- Limp and irritability of hip on movement
- Knee pain — referred from the affected hip
- On flexion of the hip, it rotates externally. Hip
is often in external rotation on walking. - Most movements restricted, especially
internal rotation.
slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE) management
- Cease weight-bearing and refer urgently.
- lf acute slip, gentle reduction via traction is
better than manipulation for prevention of
later avascular necrosis. - Once reduced, perform pinning
Developmental dysplasia (DDH) of the hip features
- neonates from breech delivery
- Female 6xt more likely
- unilateral or bilateral (positive family hx)
- Diminished abduction in flexion of the
affected hip - Apparent inequality of legs: affected
leg being shortened and externally rotated - Asymmetrical skin creases of the groin and
thigh - ‘clicking’ on hip movements
Developmental dysplasia (DDH) of the hip dx
Barlow test —‘telescoping’ movements in the long axis of the flexed and abducted thighs.
Ortolani test — flexed hips are abducted. thighs are the grasped between the thumbs in front and other fingers behind. The child’s knees are flexed and hip flexed to a right
angle. **positive sign makes audible and palpable ‘jerk’ or ‘clunk’ (not a click). **
- Ortolani and Barlow tests but is usually negative after two months
- Ultrasound is excellent especially up to 3-4 months
Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) in children
- Autumn, winter and spring months
- IgA mediated vaculitis
- anaphylactoid purpura
- arthralgia (not arthritis),
- non-thrombocytopenic purpura (the purpura is vascular due to leukocratic activity)
-typical symmetrical distribution over legs and buttock. - colicky abdominal pain 2 to 4 weeks
- melena
- ankle swelling
- nephritis
Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) in children Dx
-Clinical presentation + urinalysis for nephritis
Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) in children complication
Intussusception (due to intestinal oedma and bleeding)
Transient synovitis
- 3-8 years
- URTI hx
- sudden onset unilateral hip or groin pain most common sx
- medial thigh or knee
pain 2nd common sx
Arthralgia and arthritis secondary to synovium inflammation - no fever, or only a mild fever
Transient synovitis
- NSAIDs 48 hours
- bed rest
Features of Epiglottitis
– H. influenzae
High fever, sore throat,
dysphagia, odynophagia,
drooling due to inability to swallow the saliva because swallowing
is painful and difficult.
child miserable adopts a tripod position with a hyperextended neck to maintain the airway open. Muffled voice (hot potato voice)
Lungs are clear on auscultation initiallt later expiratory stridor (ominous sign.)
Epiglottitis treatment
- supplemental oxygen
- intubate
age of epiglottitis
more common between
ages 2 and 4 years;
Thumb sign in X-ray
Acute epiglottitis
- intubation at hospital
Foreign body
U/L wheeze
Asthma in children definitive dx
- 2 and 5 years
-Bilateral wheezing - viral wheezing, pre-school wheeze, episodic viral wheeze and multiple
trigger wheeze
Infrequent Intermittent asthma in children
- less than one episode of asthma in 6
weeks and no symptoms in between the flare-ups - inhaled short-acting beta2 agonist
(SABA)
Asthma short-acting beta2 agonist SABA
salbutamol
Asthma LABA
CXR in bronchiolitis
B/L perihilar infiltrates
Expiratory wheeze + RSV URTI + barking cough
Croup
Croup management
mild: no treatment
moderate/severe:
-Dexamethasone 0.3 mg/kg orally (first-line);
- Prednisolone 1mg/kg orally, or
- Budesonide 2mg by nebulizer
most severe with significant airway obstruction/fatigue: Adrenaline 1% (1:100, 10mg/ml) solution 0.05ml/kg/dose
Cervical masses in children
- Congenital
- Inflammatory/ infective
- Neoplastic
Posterior triangle of the neck mass
CCP
- Cystic hygroma
- Cervical rib
- Pancoast tumour
- (Naso/oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas)
Cervical masses in neonatal period
- thyroglossal duct cyst (TDC)
- teratomas
- sternocleidomastoid tumours of infancy
- vascular or lymphatic malformations.
Complications of thyroglossal duct cyst (TDC)
-
Infection
-Malignancy 1% - Overgrowth and pressure of the underlying
structures. - Rupture and fistula formation
Anterior triangle of the neck mass
BCC
- Branchial cyst
- Carotid body tumour
- Carotid aneurysm
Midline of the neck mass
**TTD **
- Thyroid nodule
- Thyroglossal cyst
- Dermoid cyst
Acute rheumatic fever high risk population (JONES)
Major criteria:
- Carditis
-Polyarthritis
-Chorea.
-Subcutaneous nodules.
-Erythema marginatum
- Polyarthritis or aseptic mono-arthritis or
polyarthralgia
Minor criteria
-Fever more than 38c
-Previous rheumatic fever
-Arthralgia
-Raised ESR/CRP more than 30
-ECG shows prolonged PR interval
Acute rheumatic fever treatment
- benzathine penicillin IM
-Roxithromycin if allergic to penicillin/NSAIDs
Treatment of Perthes disease
Conservative: Splinting
Surgery: osteotomy
Features of Acute rheumatic fever (ARF)/ erythema marginatum.
2 major and 2 minor criteria
- history of sore throat 3 weeks
-migratory arthralgia/arthritis
- Erythema marginatum - well demarcated bright red/pink macules rash
Initial ARF dx
2 major criteria OR one major and two minor criteria + Evidence of preceding GAS infection
recurrent attack of ARF dx
Two major criteria OR one major and two minor criteria OR three minor criteria + Evidence of preceding GAS infection
ARF dx
Cultures for GAS are the gold standard (Throat swab)
Most common cause of vaginal bleeding in children
vaginal foreign body
nonspecific vulvovaginitis
- caused by chemical
irritants such as bubble baths or by poor hygiene - stop bubble baths and use only cotton underwear
vulvovaginitis management in children
no voiding difficulties: reassure
voiding difficulties: topical oestrogen or oestradiol cream applied twice daily
severe obstruction to urinary flow with retention or recurrent infections: Manual or surgical separation
Causes of vaginal bleeding in children
- Vaginal foreign body
- Severe vulvovaginitis
- Trauma (including straddle injury and sexual
abuse) - Excoriation associated with threadworms
- Onset of first menstruation
- Haematuria
- Urethral prolapse
Enuresis management in children
- Spontaneous resolution <5 years (84%)
- Bed wetting alarms >5 years and conservative methods (fluid
intake, toileting, reward system) failed + wetting >2 per week - nasal desmopressin alternative bed wetting alarm.
Gastroenteritis in children causes
- Norovirus 95% aus
- faecal–oral route
- Contaminated food and water (cold meats)
- 12 to 24/48 hour incubation period
- noninflammatory, nonbloody, non-mucoid
Norovirus Gastroenteritis in children dx
PCR stool
Gastroenteritis in children clinical features
Common:
- Nausea
- Vomiting
- Diarrhoea
- Abdominal cramps
Not common:
- Headache
- Low-grade fever
- Chills
- Muscle aches
- Malaise
Gastroenteritis in children management
Symptomatic
anal fissure features
- passage of hard stools
anal fissure management in children
- anusol cream (lignocaine)
- pain for anal fissure is under control, laxatives and fibre diet
Hirschsprung disease (HD)
- 15-20 % of newborn intestinal obstructions
- 80% in the first 6 weeks of life
- male > female
- congenital anomaly by absence of ganglia in a segment of colon and paralysis of this aganglionic segment
-starts at the anus and progresses up
the rectum towards the colon. (Delayed meconium passage) - Failure to pass meconium in the first 24 hours but w/ gradual
onset of abdominal distension of days to weeks. - Persistent and progressive constipation
-Vomiting late
Hirschsprung disease (HD) complication
enterocolitis
Hirschsprung disease (HD) Dx
Rectal suction biopsy – Gold standard
3 months
- hold the neck
- recognize mother’s face
Hirschsprung Disease (HD) Mx
- Laxatives (mild cases)
- Surgery
intestinal malrotation with volvulus
- 6 months
-bilious vomiting - crampy abdominal pain
- abdominal distention
- bloody, mucoid stool
Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis features in children
- 2 and 6 weeks of age
- gastric outlet narrowing
- projectile vomiting a few minutes after feeding
- non bloody, non bilious vomiting
- delayed capillary refill > 2 seconds
Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis risk factors in children
-Formula feeding
-Male
-Caucasian background
-Firstborn
-Maternal smoking during pregnancy
-Positive family history
-Both erythromycin and azithromycin < 2weeks
Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis in children mananament
Initial: Fluid resuscitation
Best: Ramstedts Pyloromyotomy
Proteinuria in children
> 1+ protein on urine dipstick exam
- perform urinalysis for confirmation
Abnormal UA in children
- Asymptomatic microscopic hematuria
- Repeat UA after fever settles if no UTI (2 positive UA)
UTI in children
- Fever, nausea, vomiting
- abdominal pain
- Leukocytes and nitrites on urinalysis
UTI in children investigation
- suspect vesicoureteric reflux
- < 3 years (2-36 months) US of the kidney, ureter & bladder
- If US normal then voiding cystoureterogram (VCU)
UTI hospital admission indication
- Most of children less than 3 months.
- Children who are seriously unwell such as
those with toxic appearance or
dehydration. - Oral antibiotics cannot be tolerated.
UTI in children Managment
1st line: trimethoprim
cephalexin
UTI in infants < 1 year
- 1st: US
- micturating cystourethrogram (MCU): rule out vesicoureteric reflux
tachycardia + sunken eyes + >3 sec capillary resuscitation
severe dehydration
severe dehydration management
10-20ml/kg boluses of 0.9% normal saline
Renal scarring in children
- Recurrent urinary tract infections (more than
2 times during childhood) - Dimercaptosuccinic acid scintigraphy (DMSA) - Gold Standard
DMSA indications
- Clinical suspicion of renal injury
- Reduced renal function
- Suspicion of VUR
- Suspicion of obstructive uropathy on ultrasound in older toilet-trained children
post-streptococcal Glomerulonephritis (PSGN) in children symptoms
- hypertension 50-90%
- haematuria 30-50%
- oedema 60%
- Decreased complement (C3) levels
post-streptococcal Glomerulonephritis (PSGN) management
- Fluid restriction
- Loop diuretics/dialysis
- Steroids (caution, could be wrong)
Minimal Change Disease (MCD) in Children
- nephrotic syndrome
- <6 years
- Absence of hypertension
Absence of hematuria by Addis count - Normal complement levels
- Normal renal function
Minimal Change Disease (MCD) in Children dx
1. Nephrotic range proteinuria-urinary protein excretion greater than 50 mg/kg per
day.
2. Hypoalbuminemia-serum albumin
concentration less than 30 g/L.
3. Edema.
4. Hyperlipidaemia
Nephrotic disease management
- Corticosteroid (Prednisolone)
Causes of obesity in children
- Hypothyroidism (check TSH)
- Excessive caloric intake
- Cushing’s disease (ACTH, cortisol)
Autistic disorder features
- preoccupations with activities
- objects
- delayed speech language development
- Aggression and irritability
- poor communication with friends and avoiding eye contact
Characteristic features of autistic disorder
- Onset during infancy and early childhood
- Lack of socila interactions
least two of the following:
- No awareness of the feelings of others
- No or abnormal comfort seeking in
response to distress
- No imitation
- No social play
- cannot socialize, (no eye contact )
3- Impaired communication
least one of the following:
- No babbling, gesture, mime or spoken
language
No non-verbal
communication
- abnormal form of
speech
- inability to make conversation
-abnormal speech
4- Restricted or repetitive activities, interests and
imaginative development, shown in at least one of
the following:
- stereotyped body movements
- persistent preoccupations and
rituals with objects or activities
- gets troubled over changes in routine or
surroundings
- No imaginative and symbolic play
5- Behavioral problems:
- tantrums
- hyperactivity
- risk-taking activity
Autism treatment
Atypical antipsychotics (Risperidone)
Relationship between ADHD & ODD
In more than 50% of px with ADHD, ODD is also a part of the clinical picture
kidney scarring features in children
- one kidney smaller than the other
nutshell diagnosis of autistic disorder requires
the presence of core features by the
age of 3 years:
- Impairment of social interaction
- Impairment of communication
- Restricted, repetitive and stereotyped patterns of activities, behavior and interest
kidney scarring investigation of choice in children
DMSA (gold standard)
- Clinical suspicion of renal injury
- Reduced renal function
- Suspicion of VUR
- Suspicion of obstructive uropathy on ultrasound in older toilet-trained children
6 weeks
- good head control
- head stabilises when sitting
- track objects
- startes at loud noise
- social smile
2 months
social smile 6 weeks
3 months
- hold the neck
- recognize mother’s face
4 months
- eye contact with people
- look for mother when she speaks
- happy or settled most of the time
-follow activities with eyes
6 months
- Sits without support
- Rolls from prone to supine vice versa
- palmar grasp
- hand to hand transfer
- turns head to loud noise
- understands bye bye and no
- puts object to mouth (stops at 1 year)
- shakes rattle
reaches for bottle/breast - Ability to explore things by holding, looking at them and putting them in mouth
8 months
- sits without support
- repeats syllables ‘mama/dada’
- enjoys peekaboo
9 months
- crawls
- stranger anxiety
12 months
- ‘Cruises’
-thumb grasp - imitates speech with meaning
- waves goodbye
14 months
- pulls string on toy
15 months
- neat pincer grasp
18 months
- walks without support
- can build 2 tower blocks
- say 3 words
- drinks from cup
2 years child expected to
- walking upstairs
- Scribbling
- points to body part
- knowing 2 pronouns
-Toilet trained - self feeding by spoon/cup
2.5 years
- runs/jumps
- throws ball
- build 4 blocks
- 2 word sentences
3 years
- ride tricycle
- copes vertical line/ circle
- can use scissors
- 3-word sentences
4 years
- learns bicycle
-copies square - first and last name
- dress with supervision
5 years
- hops on one foot
- draw a person with 3 parts triangles
- knows colours
- dress without supervision
Encoperesis
voluntary or involuntary passageof stools
- place
other than the toilet
- >1/month for 3months
- >4years
Social & emotional developmental milestones
Emotional development milestones
Types of encoperesis
primary- child has never been
continent
secondary- previously
continent.