Pediatric Flashcards
Most children requiring urgent EMS intervention have?
Primary respiratory problem
What percentage of pediatric cardiac emergencies originate from respiratory arrest?
80 - 90%
Assessment of pediatric respiratory status should focus on?
General appearance
Work of breathing
General appearance in pediatric emergency assessment should be judged by?
Alertness Distractability Consolability Eye contact Speech/cry Spontaneous Color
Work of breathing for pediatrics is judged by?
Use of accessory muscles Respiratory rate Tidal volume Nasal flaring Grunting Cyanosis Pulse oximeter Lung sounds
Causes of pediatric airway obstructions?
Tongue Foreign bodies Swelling of upper airway due to angio neurotic edema Trauma Infections
What is essential to determine proper treatment in upper airway obstructions?
Cause
How do you try and relief FBAO in unresponsive infants?
Chest thrusts and back blows
High pitched “crowning” sound caused by restriction of the upper airway(usually herd on inspiration)?
Stridor
What airway sound can be caused by FBAO and Croup or Epiglottitis?
Stridor
What is laryngotraceobronchitis?
Croup
A viral infection of the upper airway, which causes edema/inflammation below the larynx and glottis with resulting narrowing of the lumen of the airway is called?
Croup
Croup most often occurs in what age children?
6 months to 4 years
A child with croup will typically have?
Stridor
Distinctive barking cough
Cold symptoms(low grade fever)
Gradual onset of respiratory distress
An acute infection and inflammation of the epiglottis that is life threatening is called?
Epiglottitis
Epiglottitis occurs in children ages?
4 years and older
Signs and symptoms of epigottitis?
Stridor Acute respiratory infection Sore throat Pain upon swallowing Distinctive drooling High grade fever(102-104) May be in the tripod position
When should you avoid IV’s in the respiratory distressed pediatric?
In patients with upper airway emergencies
You must avoid any procedure that will agitate the patient
In the patient with epiglottitis you should?
Avoid agitating
Keep in position of comfort
Have them held by parent
Never inspect the epiglottis
If no humidified oxygen is available for the Croup/Epiglottitis patient you should adminsiter?
Nebulized saline
Do not force mask, use blow by if necessary
What patient do you administer 3-5 mL of aerosolized Epi 1:1000 to?
Croup patient only
Aerosolized Epi is contraindicated in ?
Epiglottitis patients
What sound is associated with narrowing of spasm of the smaller airway which is usually herd on expiration?
Wheezing
Wheezing in children younger than 1 year of age usually is associated with?
Bronchiolitis
What is bronchiolitis?
A viral infection of the bronchioles that cause prominent expiratory wheezing
Clinically resembles asthma
What different factors can cause asthma?
Environmental Cold air Exercise Foods Irritants Certain medications
Asthma is?
Chronic inflammatory disease
The first phase of asthma is associated with?
Histamine release which causes Bronchoconstriction and bronchial edema
Early treatment with what medication may reverse bronchospasm?
Bronchodilators
The second phase of asthma consists of?
Inflammation of the bronchioles and additional edema
This phase does not usually respond to bronchodilators
Anti inflammatory is typically required
Why may the asthma patient not have wheezing?
In severe asthma attacks patients may not wheeze at all due to lack of air flow
Asthma patients will typically be?
Tachypneic with unproductive cough
Albuterol in the pediatric patient less than 1 years old or 10 kg?
1.25mg/1.5 nebulized
May be repeated twice
Albuterol dose for pediatric greater than 1 years of age or 10 kg?
2.5 mg/3 mL
Atrovent dose for pediatric less than 8 years of age?
0.25/1.25mL
Atrovent dose for pediatric over 8?
0.5mg/2.5 mL
If respiratory distress is severe in the pediatric patient you should adminsiter?
Epi 0.1mg/kg 1:1000 IM
What is the max dose of Epi 1:1000 in the pediatric respiratory distress patient?
0.3 mg
ALS level 2 for pediatric lower airway severe dyspnea is?
Mag sulfate
Repeat Epi 1:1000
Dose of mag sulfate in ALS level 2 for pediatric respiratory distress?
40 mg/kg IV mixed in 50 ml of D5W given over 15-20 minutes
Max dose 2g
Cardiac arrest in the pediatric patient is usually end result of?
Hypoxemia and acidosis from Respirtory insufficiency from shock
Initial support for the pediatric patient with cardiac dysrhythmias should be to the?
Respiratory system
What three categories can pediatric dysrhythmias be classified into?
Slow
Fast
No rhythm
What is the most common pediatric dysrhythmia ?
Bradycardia
What is the most common cause of bradycardia in pediatrics?
Hypoxia or acidosis
Tachycardia in pediatrics will be?
Compensatory mechanism
Or reentry mechanism
V-fib in pediatric patients is?
rare, but usually result of hypoxia
Asystole in pediatric patients is usually caused by?
Prolonged untreated bradycardia
AED’s may be used on which pediatric patients?
Ages 1-8 who have no signs and symptoms of circulation
Asystole/PEA protocol is used for which other cardiac rhythms other than those?
Electromechanical dissociation Pseudo-EMD Idioventricular rhythms Bradyasystolic rhythms Post defibrillation idioventricular rhythms
How much fluid should be given the the pediatric patient over 1 years old?
20 mL/kg
How much fluid should be given to the neonate patient?
10 mL/kg
Epi 1:10,000 in pediatric asystole/PEA dose?
0.01 mg/kg IV/IO
Max dose 1 mg
In asystole/PEA pediatric patient is taking calcium channel blockers or with high suspicion for hyperkalemia what medication should be administered?
Calcium chloride
Pediatric calcium chloride dose?
20 mg/kg
IV/IO slowly
How do you treat a patient who is less than 1 years old with a BGL of less than 60?
D10
5 mL/kg
IV/IO
How do you treat a patient who is between 1 and 8 years of age with a BGL of less than 60?
D25
2 mL/kg
How do you treat a patient over the age of 8 with BGL of less than 60?
D50
1 mL/kg
Glucagon dose for pediatrics?
Less than or equal to 20 kg - 0.5 mg IM
More than 20 kg - 1 mg IM
How many cycles of CPR should you perform in pediatrics prior to re checking a heart rhythm?
10 cycles
Narcan dose for pediatrics?
0.1 mg/kg
How many times may narcan be repeated in Asystole/PEA?
Once
How can epi be administered as a last resort in pediatric asystole/PEA?
ETT
What is the max dose of Epi 1:1000 for ETT administration in pediatric cardiac arrest?
2 mg