Pediatric Specific Flashcards
BRUE looks like
Cyanosis/pallor, breathing changes, marked change in tone, altered level of responsiveness
Subdural hematoma in an infant
Violent shaking, accidental trauma, rare delivery complication, often you can see retinal hemorrhage too
Non accidental head trauma
Violent shaking, throwing, blunt trauma, can have subdural hemorrhage, often there will be retinal hemorrhage
Suspicious fracture in ped
Multiple at diff stages, femur or tibia in non walking child, posterior rib fracture, skull fracture
Calorie requirement of term infant
100-120 kcal/kg/day
Daily weight gain for a term infant
20-30g/day
Neonatal acne
Neonatal cephalic pustulosis (inflammatory, due to yeast)
Vitamin D supplementation in infants
400 IU per day til 12 months
Absence of a symmetric red reflex in infants DDx
Cataracts, glaucoma, retinoblastoma, chorioretinitis
DDx for RUQ mass in infant
Hepatic neoplasm, hydronephrosis, neuroblastoma, teratoma, wilms tumour
APGAR score categories
Appearance (skin colour) Pulse (heart rate) Grimace (reflex irritability) Activity (muscle tone) Respiration
Symmetric IUGR
Head, length, weight are decrease proportionately
Asymmetric IUGR
Greater decrease in length/weight without affecting the head
Causes of asymmetric IUGR
Poor delivery of nutrition to the fetus
Primitive reflexes in infant
Rooting, sucking, Moro/startle, asymmetric tonic neck, palmar and plantar grasps, stepping
Preventing hemorrhagic disease of the newborn
Admin vitamin K at birth
Infants born to hep B positive moms should
Receive hep B Ca vine and hep b IvIg within 12 hrs of delivery
Routine newborn medications
Vitamin K, Hep B vaccination, erythromycin on the eyes
Signs of heroin withdrawal in the newborn
High pitched cry, tremulous, hypertonicity, feeding difficulty
Examples of live attenuated vaccines
MMR, varicella
After a live vaccine, when can you expect a fever?
6-14 days post immunization
Inactivated, subunit, or toxoid vaccines: when can you expect a fever post vac?
A few days later
Bacterial meningitis (gluc, protein, WBC, type, gram)
Glucose low, protein high, WBC high, PMN, + or - gram stain
Viral meningitis (gluc, protein, WBC, type, gram)
Normal glucose, normal protein, WBC high or slightly high, lymphocytes, negative gram stain