Pediatric Infectious Disease - AMBOSS and OME Flashcards
Signs and symptoms of trachoma conjunctavitis
- Starts as follicular conjunctavitis, then progresses to mixed papillary and follicular
- Corneal haziness with neovascularization, aka pannus, is a classic finding
Fever and sore throat with papulovesicular lesions on the posterior orophaynx
Classic presentation of herpangina. Often occurs with HFM disease
Oropharyngeal herpes-like infection caused by Coxsackie virus
Most common in kids age 3-10
Best diagnostic test for confirming a diagnosis of osteomyelitis
Bone marrow biopsy
In stable patients, this should precede the administration of antibiotics.
Most common etiology of osteomyelitis in children and treatment
S. aureus
Treat w/ vancomycin
Mumps
- Caused by Mumps virus
- Seen in pubertal males who present with bilateral parotid swelling
- May cause orchitis in males, which may lead to sterility
- Diagnosis is clinical, treatment is supportive
Erythema infectiosium
- Parvo B19
- Starts on cheeks, then rarely appears in other places
- Fever and rash occur at the same time
- Diagnosis is clinical, treatment is supportive
- May provoke an aplastic crisis in patients with a hemoglobinopathy
- If mom is pregnant, separate her from the infected child – otherwise her current pregnancy could end in hydrops
Measles
- Caused by Paramyxovirus
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Prodrome: The four C’s
- Cough
- Coryza
- Conjunctavitis
- Koplik spots
- Fever and rash then occur simultaneously
- Rash begins on face, then spreads down trunk and arms
- Really fever begins when the rash starts to spread
- Diagnosis is clinical, treatment is supportive plus vitamin A
- Later in life, at risk for subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
Rubella
- Caused by Rubella virus
- Prodrome: Tender postauricular and suboccipital lymphadenopathy
- Fever and rash then occur simultaneously
- Rash begins on face, then spreads down trunk and arms
- Really fever begins when the rash starts to spread
- Diagnosis is clinical, treatment is supportive
Roseola
- Caused by HHV-6
- Prodrome: Very high, spiking fever, >104F
- Rash occurs after fever breaks
- Rash starts on the trunk, then expands outward
- Diagnosis is clinical, treatment is supportive
- Since there is a high spiking fever, there may be a febrile seizure. If you are going to use the temperature, use acetominophen. Aspirin causes Reye syndrome.
Varicella
- Caused by VZV
- Rash without fever
- Diffuse rash with “vesicles on an erythematous base in different stages of healing”
- Diagnosis is clinical, treatment is supportive
- No Tzank smears. No PCRs. CLINICAL diagnosis.
- Shingles later in life
Hand-foot-mouth disease
- Caused by Coxsackie A
- Looks exactly like varicella, but only appears on the hands, feet, and mouth
- Can also involve oropharynx and buttocks, but not the trunk
- Diagnosis is clinical, treatment is supportive
Consideration of ICP in meningitis
If you suspect ICP may be elevated, start antibiotics NOW, then do CT, then an LP
If you don’t think ICP is elevated, do LP, then start antibiotics
Why don’t we like to use ceftriaxone in very young patients?
It causes hyperbilirubinemia in kids, particularly babies. It displaces bilirubin from albumin.
Ceftriaxone is contraindicated in premature infants up to 41 wks (GA at delivery + wks after birth) of age.
Pediatric empiric meningitis regimen for kids < 30 days
- Vancomycin
- Cefatoxime
- Ampicillin
- +/- steroids
How old does a kid have to be before we are confident that ELISA is a reliable test for HIV again?
18 months
If < 18 months, we use a DNA PCR
Prophylaxis in kids with HIV/AIDS
- 200
- PCP coverage w/ TMP-SMX (elseif dapsone, elseif atovaquone)
- 100
- Toxo coverage w/ TMP-SMX (elseif atovaquone)
- 50
- MAC coverage w/ azithromycin
___ is always the most common cause of osteomyelitis
Staph aureus is always the most common cause of osteomyelitis