Pediatirc Shelf Flashcards
What causes Acute cerebellar ataxia, opsoclonus, myoclonic encephalopathy?
Neuroblastoma
Where does Neuroblastoma’s arise from?
Neural crest cells
In a kid what can give you an abdominal mass, fever, anemia and weight loss?
Neuroblastoma
What is “dancing eyes and dancing feet” associated with?
Neuroblastoma
What are the diagnostic test for Neuroblastoma?
CT scan or ultrasound of the abdomen. Urine VMA, HVA
What gives you a poor outcome in Neuroblastoma?
High MYCN gene expression456
What childhood tumor is associated with Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome
Wilms tumor
What is associated with aniridia (absent iris), macroglossia, visceromegally and hemihypertrophy?
Wilms Tumor
What is the diagnostic test for Wilms tumor?
CBC, BUN, Cr, UA and abdominal ultrasound
In a 5 yr old kid what can give you fever, HTN, nontender abdominal mass, abdominal pain and hematuria
Wilms Tumor
What tumor in a kid presents with flank pain, hematuria and a mass?
Renal Cell Carcinoma
What is the most common soft tissue malignancy in childhood?
Rhabdomyosarcoma
What is the most common malignant bone tumor in children?
Osteosarcoma
What translocation is associated with Ewing Sarcoma?
11:22 translocation
What bone tumor gives you cancer in the midshaft of long bones, leukocytosis, elevated sedimentation rate, and lytic bone lesions with onion skin periosteal reaction on x-ray?
Ewing Sarcoma
Which bone tumor in kids give you cancer in the metaphyses, elevated alkaline phosphatase and sunburst lytic bone lesions?
Osteosarcoma
Tennis-racquet shaped birbeck granules are seen? And where are these granules found?
Langerhans cell histiocytosis. These granules are found in the histiocytes
What condition can mimic retinoblastoma?
Ocular toxocariasis
What would the CBC show in toxocariasis?
Eosinophilia
How would you diagnose retinoblastoma?
Slit lamp exam
Where do you fine juvenile polyps and what symptom do they cause?
Found in the colon and they cause painless rectal bleeding
Where are astrocytomas commonly found?
Cerebellum
What brain tumor is associated with neurofibromatosis?
Brain stem glioma
Uniform enlargement of the testicle?
Seminoma
Painless mass in the right hypochondrium leading to weight loss, anorexia, nausea and vomiting
Hepatoblastoma
What is the treatment for Pertussis?
Macrolide like azithromycin, erythromycin, and clarithromycin
How do you treat lyme disease?
If 8 doxyclycline
What kind of hearing loss do you get with ear infections?
Conductive hearing loss
What kind of hearing loss do you get with congenital rubella infection?
Sensorinueural hearing loss
What is post-exposure prophylaxis for rabies?
Rabies immunoglobulin and vaccine
What is the most common cause of viral meningitis?
Enteroviruses like echovirus and coxsacjie virus
What are the causes of neonatal bacterial meningitis?
- Group B strep
- E.coli
- Listeria
What are the causes of bacterial meningitis >1month
- Strep Pneumo
- Nisseria meningitidis
- H. Flu
How would you treat bacterial meningtis in a neonate?
Ampicillin and Gentamicin
What is the treatment for bacterial meningitis in childen
Ceftriaxone
What are the most common causes of osteomyelitis in sickle cell disease?
Salmonella and staph aureus
What is the treatment for pinworms?
Albendazole
What are the symptoms for congenital syphilis?
Jaundice, anemoa, lesions on palms and soles, hepatosplenomegaly, rhinnorhea
How do you treat unilateral cervical lymphadenitis?
Clindamycin
What is the most common complication of mumps?
Orchitis
What is the treatment for minor cat bite wounds?
Amoxicillin/Clavulanate
What organisms are a big concern for sickle cell patients?
- Strep pneumo
- H. Flu
- N. meningitis
- Salmonella
What organisms cause bacterial rhinosinusitis?
Strep pneumo, h.flu(nontypeable), moraxella catarrhalis
What is the treatment for rhinosinusitis?
Amoxicillin/clavulanate
What is the treatment of choice for impetigo?
Topical mupirocin
When should you start to supplement iron in a baby?
After 4months if baby is breastfed
What is the iron requirment in breast fed babies after 4months? After 6months? After 1yr
4 months= 1mg/kg/day
6-12months= 11mg/day
1yr-3yr= 7mg/day
What is the iron requirement for premies and why do they need this?
Premies need supplemental iron from the start because most maternal iron is transferred via placenta in the 3rd trimester. They need 2mg/kg/day until weaned from breastmilk
When do you start to supplement fluoride in babies?
At 6 months
How long is breastmilk the best source of nutrition for a baby?
First 6 months of life
What is wrong with goat milk?
It lacks iron and folic acid which can cause a megaloblastic anemia. It may also contain toxoplasma gondii
How do you determine how much formula per oz is needed in a baby?
age in months + 3= oz of formula per feed
When is it appropriate to start giving table foods?
1yr
What is the sequence of introducing juice and foods in a baby?
At 6months you can start introducing fruit juice, cereal, and boiled eggs. After that then vegetables one at a time, then fruit one at a time, then meats
What is physiologic carotenemia?
Its a condition where babies have yellow skin without icterus due to eating vegetables that has carotene in them. Usually occurs around 6-18months. Benign condition
What are some things you should not give the baby to eat in the first year of life?
Cow milk, goat milk, formula without iron, honey, corn syrup, egg whites
When should infants regain their birthweight?
10days of life
When does a baby Coos. socially smiles
6weeks
When does a baby Follows an object at 180 degrees on ventral suspension
8weeks
When does a baby Moro reflex disappears. Reaches out and misses object
12weeks
When does a baby Reaches out and grasps object and puts in mouth. No head lag, pushes down with feet, good truncal support, head held at 90 degrees to body in prone position.
16weeks
When does a baby Rolls over prone to supine. transfers objects from one hand to another. Babbles and bounces
28weeks
When does a baby Sits up unaided. Pulls to standing position. assisted pincer movement. mama and dada
40wks
When does a baby Cruise. know two words other than mama and dada. unassisted pincer movement
52weeks
When does a baby Whines when diaper wet and done eating. walks upstairs assisted. speaks 10words.
18months
When does a baby Walks up and down stairs. gets in trouble. puts words together
24months
When does a baby Goes upstairs alternating feet. Jumps. Knows full name. Uses “I”
30months
When does a baby Rides tricycle. copies a circle. counts 3 objects. builds a bridge of 3 cubes
36months
When does a baby Hops. cuts picture with scissors. plays with other children. throws a ball overhand. tells a story. goes to toilet.
48months
When does a baby SKips, name colors, ask lots of questions. dresses and undresses
60months
When is the first dental visit recommended?
1yr
When should a kid begin potty training and brushing teeth?
2yrs
What is thin white odorless muciod vaginal discharge preceeding menarche by 3-6months?
Physiologic leukorrhea
What is the treatment for central precocious puberty?
GnRH agonist like leuprolide acetate
What age should you be worried about delayed puberty in girls?
13yrs
What age should you be worried about delayed puberty in boys?
14yrs
What is the signal for pubertal GnRH release?
Kisspeptin
What does FSH do?
Stimulates ovarian follicle and seminiferous tubules
What does LH do?
Stimulates leydig cells and theca cells
What are the sign of a craniophyriangioma?
Growth failure, diabetes insipidus, bitemporal hemianopsia
What are the signs of mild dehydration?
Tachycardia
What are the signs of moderate dehydration?
sunken eyes, sunken fontanelle, dry mucous membranes, tachycardia, orthostatic hypotension, oliguria, transient tenting
What are the signs of severe dehydration?
deeply sunken eyes, deeply sunken fontanelles, parches mucous membranes, hypotension, thready pulse, persistent tenting, anuria
What is oliguria?
dcrease urine output= 0.5mL/kg/hr
What is the normal urine output for a child?
1-2mL/kg/hr
What is the sequence of events for neonatal resuscitation in a baby who is not breathing/crying or have good tone?
- Stimulate baby
- Positive pressure ventilation
- Correct positive pressure ventilation
- Intubate, chest compression, positive pressure ventilation
- IV epinephrine
What is the sequence of asphyxia?
apnea–>bradycardia–>cardiac arrest
What condition would you use therapeutic hypothermia for?
Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy
What kind of problems should you be worried about post resuscitation?
- Hypothermia
- Hypoglycemia
- Hypoxia and Acidosis
- Hypotension/Hypovolemia
- Sepsis
What does symptomatic hypoglycemia in a baby look like?
Jitterness, apnea, lethargy, poor feeding, tachypnea, cyanosis, seizures
What could happen if you give sodium bicarbonate to a premature baby to rapidly?
Intraventricular hemorrhage
What is considered hypotension in a neonate?
Blood pressure
What is a choledochus cyst?
Its a condition in older children where there is impaired excretion of bilirubin and presents with sudden abdominal pain, RUQ mass, and jaundice
What is the picture for ABO incompatibility?
Mom is O and baby is either A or B
What level of bilirubin should you start worrying about kernicterus?
> 20mg/dL
What gives you familial intrahepatic cholestasis, long nose w/bulbous tip, short stature, heart disease?
Alagille Syndrome
What is the contraindication for phototherapy?
Porphyria
How many hrs qualify you for prolonged rupture of membranes?
> 18hrs
What is the best test to diagnose esophageal atresia?
Chest x-ray
What is the best test to diagnose choanal atresia?
- NG tube
2. CT scan
What is the best test to diagnose duodenal atresia?
Abdominal x-ray
What is the best test for pyloric stenosis?
Abdominal ultrasound
What is the best test for hirschsprung disease?
- Abdominal x-ray
2. Rectal suction biopsy
What age determines precocious puberty for african american girl?
What age determines precocious puberty for boys?
What age determines precocious puberty for caucasian girls?
What would the WBC count show for neonatal sepsis?
What age in weeks determines premature preterm rupture of membranes?
What are the signs of respiratory distress in a neonate?
Tachpnea, grunting, nasal flaring, retracting, and cyanosis
What are risk factors for RDS?
- Prematurity
What can decrease the risk of RDS?
Prolonged rupture of membranes
What does the blood gas profile show for RDS?
Combined respiratory and metabolic acidosis
How would you give surfactant to a baby in RDS?
Through endotracheal tube
What can you give the mother to try and prevent RDS in a premature baby and when would you give it?
Give betamethasone or dexamethasone 24-48hrs before delivery
What are risk factors for meconium aspiration?
- Fetal distress
- Post-term
- Breech deliveries
What is the chest x-ray finding in meconium aspiration?
Honeycomb lung and later the white out effect