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Newborn vital signs
Heart rate: 120-140 bpm
Respiratory rate: 30-60 breaths/minute with periods of
apnea.
Transfers an object from hand-to-hand
7 months
Putting his feet to his mouth when lying in supine
5 months
Displays anxiety with strangers
Able to sit without support
8 months
Blood pressure is taken as a routine part of the vital signs at
the age of.
3 years old
Teaching as to when will be the cord separation
10-14 days
Signs of cord infection
Red and swollen around the cord
Discharges that is purulent and malodorous
Oozes yellowish pus
Continues to bleed
Teaching on when to remove safely the cord clamp?
For at least 24 hours if no oozing is noted.
Types of circumcision:
Gomco technique, Mogen clamp, and plastibell
procedure.
Post circumcision, the Plastibell falls by itself
Usually about a week (5 to 8 days)
Assessment to a newborn post circumcision
Assess for bleeding, swelling, and wait to urinate
before discharging the neonate.
Describe stools of a breast-fed baby
Golden yellow, mushy, more frequent
Describe stools of a formula/milk-fed baby
Pale yellow, firm, putty-like,
Newborn not infected from mother with HIV
If the baby isn’t infected, he or she will lose the
mother’s antibodies and start to test negative for HIV
sometime between 6 and 18 months of age.
Fifth disease
Erythema Infectiosum
Signs of newborn with hypoglycemia
Jitteriness, tremors, weak cry, lethargy,
Poor feeding, Floppy posture, possibly seizures
Signs of newborn that is withdrawing form drugs.
High-pitched cry, shrill cry, irritable, fist sucking.
Signs of cord infection.
Redness (erythema), malodorous, and purulent
discharge.
Commonly affected brought by acute rheumatic fever.
Mitral valve
Describe the characteristic cough of croup
Bark-like or barky cough
Expiratory grunting
An abnormal breath sounds when an infant breathes
out against a closed glottis.
Low set ears are commonly seen in?
Down Syndrome
Treatment used in diabetes insipidus
DDAVP (Desmopressin) is administered in the evening to prevent
night time water craving and enuresis.
In hyperthyroidism, what serum level is increased?
High circulating level of T4
Treatment for congenital hip dysplasia during neonatal
age.
Pavlik harness
holding hips in wide abduction
Sign to report as increased intracranial pressure.
Widened, tense, and bulging fontanel