Pedi ATI Flashcards
Pulse
Up to 1 week : 100-160 (fluctuations with activity) 1wk-3months: 100-220 3 months - 2 yrs: 80-150 2-12: 70-110 12+: 50-90
Temperature
birth-1auxillary: 97.9-98.9
1-12 oral: 98.1-99.9
12+ oral: 97.8-98.0
Respirations
Newborn: 30-60 with periods of apnea < 15 sec upto 1 yr: 30 1-2: 25-30 2-6: 21-24 6-12: 19-21 12+: 16-18
Blood Pressure
Influenced by age, height, and gentder. Compare to national measures infants: 60-80 systolic, 40-50 diastolic 1: 97-107/53-60 3: 100-110/61-68 6: 104-114/67-75 10: 112-122/73-80 16: 122-132/79-86 GIRLS
Fontanels
Posterior: 2-3 months
Anterior 12-18 months
Reflexes
Suck-root: birth to 4 months Palmar grasp: birth - 6 months Plantar grasp: birth to 8 months Moro (startle): birth to 4 months tonic neck (fencer) birth to 3-4 months Babinski: birth to 1 year stepping: birth to 4 weeks
Cranial Nerves
I Olfactory: smell
II Optic: intact visual acuity, peripheral and color vision (can track and object)
III Oculuomotor: PERRLA, no nystagmus, blinks
IV Trochlear: Look down and in
V Trigeminal: clench teeth, detects facial touch, root and suck reflex
VI Abducens: See laterally, follows your face
VII Facial: salt vs sweet, symmetrical face movements,
VIII Acoustic: no vertigo, intact hearing, tracks sound, blinks to loud
IX Glossopharyngeal: intact gag reflex, sour taste on back tongue
X Vagus: clear speech, no difficulty swallowing
XI Spinal Accessory: moves shoulders symmetrically with equal strength
XII Hypoglossal: midline tongue, moves in all directions, for and infant open mouth when nares occluded, no difficulty swallow
First year gross and fine motor skills
Months old; gross; fine
1; head lag; grasp reflex
2; lifts head off mattress; holds hands in open position
3; raises head and shoulders; no grasp, keeps hands loosely open
4; rolls from back to side; places objects in mouth
5; rolls front to back; uses palmar grasp
6; rolls back to front; holds bottle
7; bears full wt on feet; objects from hand to hand
8; sits unsupported; pincer grasp
9; pulls to standing; crude pincer grasp
10; prone to sitting; grasps rattle by handle
11; walks holding on; places objects in container
12; sit down from standing without help; TRIES to build 2 block tower
Piaget birth-24 months
Sensorimotor :
separation
object permanence (9 months)
mental representation (recognition of symbols)
Pyschosocial first year
Erickson: trust vs mistrust
Attachment: infant bonds with parents
Separation anxiety 4-8 months
Toddler
1-3 yrs
30 months wt is 4 x birth wt
grow 3 inches per year
15 months; walks without help, creeps up stairs; uses cup, 2 blocks
18 months; standing position; spoon, turn pages
2 yrs; walks up and down stairs; 6-7 blocks
2.5 yrs; jumps, stands one foot; draw circle, hand finger coordination
400 words, 2-3 word phrases
Piaget cognitive toddler
sensorimotor- preoperational
object permanence
mimicry-playing house
imitates others
Psychosocial toddler Erickson
autonomy vs shame and doubt independence, separation anxiety egocentric, moral development self concept - see separate from parents body image changes, gender identity at 3
Preschool
3-6
3: rides tricycle, jumps off step, stand on one foot for few sec
4: skips and hops on one foot, throws ball overhead
5: jump ropes, walks backward, stairs easily
dress independent, copy things on paper
Understand time past present future
Sentences, know colors
Piaget preschool cognitive
Preoperational
preconceptual thought 2-4: visual judgements, inanimate objects alive, immennent justice
intuitive thought 4-7: classify info, cause effect relationship
Psychosocial Erickson Preschool
initiative vs guilt
moral development
self concept of development (may regress if unable or stressed)
Body image, fear dark
Less separation anxiety, little stranger anxiety
Pretend play
12 hrs sleep
School age
6-12 years old Puberty begins Vision to 20-20 Coordination improves understands grammar and multiple meanings of words
Piaget cognitive school age
Concrete operations wt and volume unchanging simple analogies understands time classifies complex info understands emotions self-motivated solves problems
Erickson school age psychosocial
industry vs inferiority: learn things, motivated by tasks that increase self worth, fears of peer ridicule
Moral development: justice, law and order
Self respect, encourage where they can excel
Body image changes, sexual curiosity, privacy
Social: peer pressure, friendships, conformity
Adolescent
12-20 years
acne
girls stop growing 2 yrs after menarche
boys stop around 18-20
Girls order: breasts, pubic hair, menstruation
Boys order: Increase in testes and scrotum, pubic hair, rapid growth genitalia, axillary hair, lip hair, voice change
Piaget cognitive adolescents
Formal operations: think like adult, abstract, longer attention, imaginative and idealistic, logical decisions, future oriented, deductive reasoning, actions influence others
Erickson psychosocial adolescents
Identity vs role confusion: influenced by family expectations, group identity influences behavior
Vocational work habits and future plans
Sexuality
Invincible to health outcomes of risky behavior
Law and order-rules adjusted, not absolute
Self concept: friends, activities help
Body image: how the world views them
Pain scales
CRIES postop scale: 32 wks gestation to 20 wks old, cry, vitals, expression, sleep
FLACC: 2 months - 7 yrs; faces, legs, activity, cry, consolable,
FACES: 3 yrs and up; happy sad faces
VAS Visual analog: 7 and up (maybe as young as 4.5); 0-10, child points to # that best describes
Numeric: 5 and up
Word graphic: 4 and up
Oucher 3 and up
Noncommunicating check list: 3-18 yrs; 0-18 scale, vocal, social, facial, activity level, movement, physiologic changes
Meningitis
Viral (MMR) or bacterial (URI, bacteria, immunosupressed, crowded living, CSF access)
photophobia, headache, drowsy, irritable, N&V, seizures, nuchal rigidity, Brudzinskis sign (flex extremeties with flex neck), Kernig sign (pain when extending knee when hip flexed), fever and chills, petechia or pupura (immediate medical attention),
isolation droplet when suspected, decrease stimuli, low lights, cool room, lay without pillow, head slightly elevated, seizure precautions
ABX, corticosteroids, anticonvulsants, analgesics-nonopiods,
complications: increased ICP > brain damage
CBC, culture, CSF
PVC and Hib vaccinations help protect
CSF collection
empty bladder, fetal position or sitting if older, sedatives, EMLA cream L3-5, monitor for hematoma, lie flat for 4-8 hrs
Reye Syndrome
Liver dysfunction and Cerebral edema
hypoglycemia, shock
No Asprin for viral illness
Stage 1: lethargy, vomit, anorexia, liver dysfunction, brisk pupil rxn, can follow commands
Stage 2: confusion, combative, hyperventilate, hyperreflex, sluggish pupil, responds to pain
Stage 3: coma, seizures, flexion rigidity,
Stage 4: deeper coma, extension rigidity, fixed large pupil, brainstem dysfunction, minimal liver dysfunction
Stage 5: hypotonia, seizures, resp arrest, no liver dysfunction
Increased Liver, ammonia
Low hgb, hct, platelets
Liver biopsy (check clotting prior), NPO prior, hemorrhage and vitals post CSF
Fluids with I&O, position (avoid flextion and extension, head midline, elevate 30), vitamin K if bleeding, NG tube, intubation, seizure precaution, diuretic (mannitol), insulin
Complications: neurological speech, hearing, CP, paralysis, developmental delays; death
Seizure types
Generalized
Tonic-clonic (grand mal): aura, tonic episode, loss of conscious, clonic pisone, breathing may stop, cyanosis, biting, incontinence, confusion and sleepy
Tonic: only tonic phase, does not loose conscious, few seconds
Clonic: only clonic, no fatigue,
Absence: common in children, lasts seconds, blank stare, function resumes after
Myoclonic: brief jerk or stiffening, 1 or 2 sides, seconds
Atonic-kinetic: muscle tone lost, confusion after, falling
Partial:
Complex: automatisms lip smack, loss of conscious, amnesia before and after
Simple: no loss of conscious, unusual sensations, dejavu, autonomic abnormalities change in vitals, one sided movement, bad smell
Status Epilepticus
lasts longer than 30 min, no postictal phase
Maintain airway, O2, IV access, ECG monitor, pulse ox, ABGs, loading dose of diazepam or lorazepam, continuous infusion of dilantin or cerebyx
Cushings reflex
hypertension with a widened pulse pressure (systolic-diastolic) and bradycardia
sign of increased ICP (normal is 10-15 mmhg)
Glascow coma scale
8- severe head injury and coma
9-12 moderate head injury
13 up minor head trauma