Paeds two Flashcards
How do you treat ADHD?
- EDUCATION
- parenting programme
- school support & liason
- medications - methylphenidate
What are the 3 main symptom groups in ASD?
- communication difficulties
- Social interactions
- Behavioural, poor imagination, rigidity
What are some communication difficulties observed in ASD?
- lack of desire to communicate
- delayed or disordered language (echolalia)
- poor non-verbal communication
- good language but unable to start or keep a conversation going
What are some social interaction difficulties observed in ASD?
- doesn’t understand unspoken social rules (personal space)
- touches inappropriately
- plays alone
- poor eye contact
- turn taking hard
- stressful being around other people
What are some of the rigidity/lack of imagination Sx of ASD?
- inability to play imaginatively
- resist change
- obsessions/rituals
- plays the same game over and over
- follows rules exactly
- learning by rote and not understanding
- asks same question even when answer given
How do you manage ASD?
- comunication aids - something to distract them with
- Visual planners - words and pictures
- special schools
- parental education
what presentations can RSV cause?
- VIW
- bronchiolitis (80+%)
- croup
- pneumonia
- wheezy bronchitis
What causes croup?
-virus - usually para flu
What time of year does croup present?
Spring/autumn
What is the typical presentation of croup?
- barking seal like cough
- stridor
- recession
- worse at night
- self limiting
How do you treat croup?
- oral or injected dexamethasone
- if stats don’t improve - nebulised adrenaline
What causes acute epiglottitis?
-Haemophilus influenza type b
How does epiglottitis present?
- severe acute illness
- high pitched stridor
- sat up not moving much at all
- drooling
Define pneumonia.
Respiratory disease characterizd by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants.
What is the diagnostic criteria for pneumonia?
- Hx of cough and/or difficulty breathing for <14 days
- w/ increased respiratory rate (defined for age)
What would expect a CXR to look like for someone with pneumonia?
- dense fluffly opacity that occupies a portion or whole love or lung
- may or may not contain an air bronchograms
What is the leading cause of pneumonia in the UK?
pneumococcus 30-50%
Other than pneumococcus, what other bacteria can cause pneumonia?
- HiB
- S. aureus
- K. pneumoniae
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
What causes whooping cough?
Bordetella Pertussis
What is the typical presentation of Whooping cough (pertussis infection)?
3 phases
- 1st - coryzal mild resp infection like - mild fever, dry cough, nasal discharge, sore throat, malaise
- 2nd - dry hacking cough - prolonged episodes followed by characteristic whoop, reddened face, bulging eyes, post coughing vomiting, may be severe enough to cause cyanosis
- 3rd - persistent cough goes on long after infection - can be months.
How do you treat whopping cough?
Macrolide Tx - Clarithromycin/azithromycin/erythromycin
- supportive and symptomatic relief
- INFORM PHE
What CSF findings indicate a bacterial meningitis?
- raised cell count
- raised protein
- low glucose
- bacteria in CSF/blood/PCR
What CSF findings indicate a viral meningitis?
- raised cell count
- normal protein
- normal glucose
- virus identified in blood/throat/still/CSF
What bacteria would you suspect causing Meningitis in a baby under 3 months? why are they different to babies over 3 months?
- Group B strep, E.coli, listeria, pneumococcus, meningococcus
- picked up from maternal vaginal flora during birth
What are some signs of primary immune deficiency?
- failure to thrive
- reccurent infections (x4 in a year)
- infection with abnormal bacteria
- little response to antibiotics
- persistent thrush in mouth or fungal infection on skin
What would you expect to see on blood test results of a child with immune deficiency?
- low IgG
- low IgA
- Low IgM
- increase WBC
- raised inflammation markers
How do you treat someone with primary immune deficiency?
- antibacterial/viral prophylaxis
- prompt infection Tx
- replacement of immunoglobulins
- bone marrow transplant
How do vaccines work?
- induce immunity: T and B cell specific for organism/toxin
- induce immunological memory
- Antibodies (B cell memory): measurable
- herd immunity
- specific T cell memory
What are babies at risk of if born prematurely?
- Respiratory distress syndrome
- sepsis
- pneumothorax
- pulmonary oedema
- congenital heart defect
How do you treat neonatal hypoglycaemia in a pre term/low birth weight?
- IV bolus 2.5ml/kg 10% dex
- 10% dex infusion or parentral nutrition for maintenance
Why does neonatal hypoglycaemia happen?
-preterms/growth restricted babies have poor glycogen stores
how does neonatal hypoglycaemia present?
- within the first 24 hours of life
- jitteriness, irritability, apnoea
- lethargy, seizures, drowsiness
What screening is done on preterm neonates?
- Eyes - retinopathy of prematurity
- Lungs - chronic lung disease/bronchopulmonary dysplasia
- brain - intraventricular haemorrhage
- hearing - increased risk of hearing impairment
What is the best form of nutrition for neonates and why?
BREAT IS BEST!
- maternal immunity boost
- decrease risk on necrotising enterocolitis
How does necrotising enterocolitis present?
- seen in prematurity within the first few weeks of life
- initially - feed intolerant, vomiting which may be bile stained, distended abdomen, fresh blood in stool (sometimes)
- later - Sx of shock - worsening of abdomen distension
What radiological features would confirm necrotising enterocolitis?
- distended loops of bowel
- thickening of the bowel wall w/ intramural gas
- gas in portal venous tract
- air under diaphragm due bowel perforation
How does one treat necrotising enterocolitis?
- stop oral feed
- treat with broad spec Abx for both aerobic and anaerobic organisms
- parenteral nutrition always required
- mechanical ventilation
- circulatory support (I assume this means fluids)
What is the prognosis of a child with NEC?
- 20% mortality rate
- long term bowel dysfunction;
- strictures
- malabsorption problems if large resection has been necessary
- greater risk of poor neurodevelopment
What are some causes of jaundice in the first 24 hours of life?
-Haemolytic disorders
~Rhesus haemolytic disease
~ABO incompatibility
-G6PD deficiency - male dominant middle-eastern/African
-Spherocytosis - FHx common, diagnosed by presence of spherocytes on blood film
What are some causes of jaundice in neonates ages 2 days - 2 weeks?
- physiological - neonate adapting to transition from fetal life
- breast milk jaundice
- dehydration
- infection
What are the causes of jaundice in a neonate older than 2 weeks of age?
prolonged Unconjugated:
- breast milk
- infection - particulary UTI
- congenital hypothyroidism
Conjugated:
- neonatal hepatitis
- biliary atresia