Pediatrics Flashcards
Associations w/ Down syndrome?
- Cardiac: Endocardial cushion defects, VSD, ASD
- Duodenal atresia (double bubble w/ bilious vomiting)
- Hirschsprung disease (lack of Auerbach’s plexus in colon w/ chronic contraction of colon)
- Imperforate anus
- Celiac’s disease
- Hearing loss (conductive loss from chronic OM)
- Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (hypothyroidism)
- Leukemia (ALL)
Associations w/ Turner syndrome?
Short stature Webbed, short necks w/ cystic hygromas Coarctation of aorta Bicuspid aortic valve Horseshoe kidney Amenorrhea Broad chest w/ wide-spaced nipples Short 4th finger and toe
Child sick for >3 days w/ fever, cough, not drinking well and not getting better?
Suspect ear infection (AOM)
Centor criteria?
What are they used for?
Used to determine when to test & treat for Strep throat
- Tonsil exudates
- Tender anterior cervical lymphadenopathy
- Fever
- ABSENCE of cough
- Deep-throated voice
0-1: no Abx or Strep test needed
2-3: throat culture & Abx only if culture is (+)
4+: give empiric Abx (AMOXICILLIN)
3 signs for AOM?
DOC for AOM?
1) Middle ear effusion (non-movable TM)
2) Middle ear inflammation (TM is gray, yellow, hemorrhagic)
3) S/S relating to ear –> irritability, otalgia (ear pain)
DOC: Amoxicillin
- If fails, use Augmentin, ceftriaxone
Complications: mastoiditis (behind ear becomes red/swollen), facial nerve palsy, temporal bone osteomyelitis
Child has fever of >5 days + irritable w/ a rash, B/L non-exudative conjunctivitis, dry cracking lips, redness and swelling in extremities. What do you have to consider? What are common complications?
Kawasaki disease
- Acute vasculitis of medium-sized vessels in children b/w ages 6mo-5yo
- *Coronary artery dilation and aneurysms can occur
Clinical signs of Kawasaki disease?
Lab criteria?
Tx?
5 day fever w/ 4 of 5 below:
1) Rash (polymorphous exanthema)
2) B/L, bulbar, non-exudative CONJUNCTIVITIS
3) Changes in lips + oral mucosa (dry, CRACKING, etc)
4) Changes in extremities (edema, erythema, induration)
5) U/L cervical lymphadenopathy (least common)
High ESR/CRP + evidence of 3 below:
1) Leukocytosis
2) Anemia
3) Thrombocytosis
4) Hypoalbuminemia
5) High ALT
Tx:
1) IV IgG
2) ASPIRIN until fever resides –> ONLY instance where you can give children aspirin!
Only instance where you can give children aspirin? Why?
Kawasaki disease
Normally can cause Reye syndrome –> acute liver failure in children (micro-vesicular centrilobular necrosis)
New onset truant behavior, depression, or euphoria in adolescents or declining school grades?
Substance abuse
Signs of Trisomy 18 (Edwards)?
Heart defect with Edwards?
*Closed fist w/ index finger overlapping 3rd digit and 5th digit overlapping 4th digit
*Rocker-bottom feet
Microcephaly (small head)
*Micrognathia (small jaw)
Cleft lip/palate
Single umbilical artery
Small pelvis
*VSD
Signs of Trisomy 13 (Patau)?
Cutis aplasia (missing part of skin & hair)
Polydactyly (>5 digits per extremity)
Holoprosencephaly (failure of forebrain growth)
VSD
Omphalocele
Hypersensitive to atropine & pilocarpine
VATER syndrome?
Vertebral problems Anal anomalies Trachea problems Esophageal abnormalities Radius/Renal abnormalities
Recent newborn still has part of umbilical cord stump attached well after birth. What do you suspect?
Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency (LAD)
- Disorder of leukocyte adhesion & chemotaxis
- Delayed wound healing, recurring sinopulmonary infections
- Neutrophilic common (can’t extravasate out of vasculature to tissues)
Both humoral (B cell) & cellular (T cell) deficiencies?
SCID
- Thymus shrinks in size
- Recurring infections
Decreased T cell production due to 22q11 deletion?
DiGeorge syndrome
- Thymus & parathyroid absent!
- Velocardiofacial defects (VSD, ToF)
- Atypical facies (prominent nose, small mandible)
- Cleft palate
Syndrome associated w/ behavior problems (immaturity, insecurity), developmental delay (speech, language), & physical findings (gynecomastia, hypogonadism, long limbs)?
What hormone findings are present?
Klinefelter syndrome
- XXY male –> gynecomastia, long limbs, hypogonadism
- Common to see verbal cognitive delays (reading, spelling, math, speech)
- Consider for all boys w/ MR, psychosocial/school/adjustment problems
Hormones: INCREASED gonadotropin, estradiol, FSH, LH
Most common form of INHERITED mental retardation?
Fragile X syndrome (CGG repeat)
- Boys w/ MR
- Long face, prominent forehead, protruding ears
- *Macroorchidism
- *Large jaw
What vital vitamins are not in breast milk?
Vitamin D & K
If taking goat’s milk or mom is a vegan –> supplement folate & Vit B12
How do Vit C & Calcium affect iron absorption?
Vit C = increased Fe absorption
Ca = decreased Fe absorption
Autosomal dominant condition w/ short height, leg bowing, waddling gait; normal Ca, PO4, ALP; irregular lone bone mineralization?
Schmid metaphyseal dysostosis
What is Somogyi phenomenon?
Nocturnal hypoglycemic episodes seen as night terrors, HA, early morning sweating –> then presents several hours later w/ hyperglycemia
Switch from hypo –> hyperglycemia due to hormones released during sleep
What is the “honeymoon” phase in diabetes?
Period generally right after diagnosis where insulin requirements decrease and appear to no longer be diabetic –> however, after a few months, the insulin dependence returns and often worsens
Name common complications that must be considered in sickle cell disease?
- Pain crises
- Splenic enlargement –> splenic sequestration
- Overtime, spleen auto-infarcts until completely dead
- Vital to give vaccines for encapsulated organisms (SHiNE SKiS)
- Acute chest syndrome
- Acute stroke
- Priapism
- Gallstone risk (pigmented)
Describe the Maintenance Fluid calculations for children. Use 4-2-1 rule.
0-10kg: 4mL/kg/hr
10-20kg: + 2mL/kg/hr
>20kg: + 1 mL/kg/hr
OR
Daily (24hr) requirements
0-10kg: 100mL/kg/day (avg 80-140kcal/kg/day)
11-20kg: 1000mL + 50mL/kg for every kg over 10kg
>20kg: 1500mL + 20mL/every kg above 20kg up to a MAXIMUM daily volume of 2400mL
Breast milk or formula: 20kcal/30mL or 1 oz
**In an infant, they need an average b/w 120-210mL/kg/day of formula or breast milk (based on avg 80-140 kcal/kg/day)
Triad of congenital effects of rubella?
1) Patent ductus arteriosis
2) Cataracts
3) Sensorineural deafness
Triad of congenital toxoplasmosis effects?
1) Chorioretinitis
2) Hydrocephalus
3) Intracranial calcifications
More likely to present as learning & visual difficulties in 2nd & 3rd decades of life
Congential complications of CMV?
*Remember: MR DICS Microcephaly (small head) mental Retardation Deafness Intracranial Calcifications Seizures (from intracranial calcifications)
Signs of congenital herpes?
Depends on which of the 3 forms the baby acquires
1) Disseminated: rash, encephalitis, resp & hepatic failure
2) CNS: seizures, poor feeding, lethargy
3) Skin-eyes-mouth: vesicles in eyes, mouth, skin
Effects of congenital syphilis?
Immediate: rash on palms & soles, rhinitis, hemolytic anemia
Long term: deafness, frontal bossing, Hutchinson teeth, saddle nose, saber shins
Infant w/ staccato cough, increased respiratory effort, afebrile and eye discharge?
Chalmydial pneumonia
Signs of organophosphate poisoning?
Reversal?
DUMBBELS (diarrhea, urination, miosis, bradycardia, bronchorrhea, emesis, lacrimation, salivation)
DOC: atropine or pralidoxime
Premature baby with blood stools/diarrhea, vomiting, fever and abdominal distention. On abd X-ray, air is seen in the abdominal wall (pneumatosis coli) and air is seen in the portal venous system. What do you suspect?
Necrotizing enterocolitis
2 year old child with intermittent, PAINLESS rectal bleeding. What must you consider?
Meckel’s diverticulum
Rule of 2's 2 feet from ileocecal valve 2 inches long 2 yo child 2 types of tissue present (gastric tissue in intestine --> secrete gastric acid causing irritation of intestine wall --> bleeding results)
Most common cause of acute stridor in children?
Foreign body aspiration (most common in R lung b/c R mainstem bronchus more vertical)
- Acts as ball-valve: lets air in during inspiration, but can't get out during expiration - Need both upright PA inspiratory & expiratory films * R lung will be hyper-inflated during expiration - both lungs look normal during inspiration
Child has stridor. What causes do you need to consider?
Foreign body aspiration, anaphylaxis, epiglottitis, croup, bacterial tracheitis
*Stridor: high-pitched harsh noise when air passes by partially obstructed airway (inspiration)
Child w/ rapid onset and progression fever, sore throat, & stridor. He appears very sick and is leaning forward with his hands on his legs and is drooling. What is it? What is most common organism? Management?
Epiglottitis
most commonly S. pneumonia, S. pyogenes, S. aureus
non-immunized kids: H. influenzae
Mgmt
1) Secure the airway (do NOT agitate child) --> take to OR for controlled ET intubation 2) Give IV broad spectrum Abx & steroids for 7-10 days
*On lateral neck X-ray can see “thumb print” sign (enlarged epiglottis)
Child w/ 3 day history of fever, runny nose, sore throat. Today she developed a cough that at times sounds like a barking cough w/ stridor. What are you thinking? What is organism? Management?
Croup
Paramyxovirus
Mgmt
1) Oral steroids (dexamethasone) to decrease swelling
2) symptomatic relief
*Neck X-ray can see “steeple” sign (narrowing of trachea from inflammation of sub-glottic structures)
Most common cause of blood in the urine in children usually after a respiratory infection?
IgA Nephropathy (Burger's disease) *Recurrent URI followed w/ hematuria
Most common cause of renal failure in children?
MOA?
Signs?
Mgmt?
Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
MOA: E.coli produces Shiga-like toxin –> binds to endothelial cells in kidney –> damage cells, releasing pro-coagulant factors –> platelet aggregation and decreases platelet count –> clots form –> shear RBC’s and result in hemolytic anemia
Triad
1) Uremia (increased BUN) 2) Thrombocytopenia (low platelets) 3) Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia (schistocytes, low Hgb)
*Do NOT give Abx! They will lyse E. coli –> it’s a G(-) organisms and lysis will release MORE endotoxin –> further damage!
Most common cause of hematochezia in infants, children, and teens?
Anal fissures
Newborn w/ immediate respiratory distress, scaphoid abdomen (anterior abdominal wall sunken inward), cyanosis & heart sounds only heard on R side of chest?
Diaphragmatic hernia
When a baby is calm and not crying, she starts to turn blue. When the baby cries, she is pink in color. Why? What’s the mechanism?
Choanal atresia: back of nasal passage (choana) is blocked by a malformation
*Babies are obligate nose-breathers at REST and when they cry, they breathe through their mouths. This is why they are pink when crying (good oxygenation) and blue when calm (nose breathing)
Most common childhood movement or posture disorder?
Cerebral palsy
A result of antenatal insults (one-time CNS insult)
*Suspect when a child fails to meet developmental milestones
A child has recurrent respiratory infections with persistent coughing & wheezing, but no improvement when given asthmatic meds. You also notice clubbing on both hands. She has poor growth and foul-smelling stools. What are you considering? Potential complications?
Cystic Fibrosis
**Meconium ileus = CF
- Abnormality in CFTR protein (F508 deletion of phenylalanine in chromosome 7) –> normally a cAMP-activated Cl channel
- Low Cl secretion and increased reabsorption of Na & H2O in intestines causes dehydration and thick secretions
3 things to look for:
1) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (bronchiectasis, bacterial pneumonia from Pseudomonas, clubbing, nasal polyps) 2) Pancreatic exocrine deficiency (maldigestion, fat soluble vitamin deficiencies, meconium ileus, biliary cirrhosis) * Peripheral neuropathy & hemolytic anemia (vit E) * Night blindness (vit A) * Mucosal bleeding & increased PT (vit K) 3) Abnormally HIGH sweat electrolyte test - Confirm w/ DNA testing
- *Early childhood signs: meconium ileum, persistent productive cough w/ sinus infections, steatorrhea, poor wt gain
- *Prenatal ultrasound can show meconium peritonitis, bowel deletion, absent gallbladder
- *Men can have azoospermia & NO vas deferens
Nasal polyps, absent gallbladder, meconium ileus, recurrent resp infections all characteristic of what?
Cystic Fibrosis
Child w/ fever, joint pain, limp, anemia, splenomegaly, and petechiae. What do you HAVE to consider?
Leukemia!
- In children, ALL most common
- Commonly mistaken for Juvenile RA
- Confirm w/ bone marrow aspirate (>25% blasts)
What congenital disorder has high association w/ ALL?
Down syndrome (both ALL and Down share association w/ Chromosome 21)
Child who recently overcame a viral illness develops generalized bruising and petechiae, especially in the legs. What do you suspect? What labs do you want? Tx?
Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP)
- also consider Henoch Schonlein Purport
CBC: normal Hgb, Hct, WBC
**LOW platelets
Can give steroids and if severe IV IgG
What 2 vaccines will give you a delayed rash 1-2 weeks after receiving them?
What vaccine will give you a delayed single joint arthritis that resolves after a few days?
MMR & Varicella
MMR - causes a postviral synovitis that resolves after a few days
What bug are you suspecting if someone has both ear infections (otitis media) & conjunctivitis?
H. influenzae (NOT type B)
How do you differentiate b/w CSF & boogers (basilar skulll fracture, trauma, etc.)?
CSF will have increased GLUCOSE compared to boogers
Illness where you see high fever and spots in the mouth first before other signs?
What vitamin can be helpful in treatment?
Measles
After the high fever and mouth spots (Koplik spots), look for the triad of:
1) Cough
2) Coryza (runny nose)
3) Conjunctivitis
*Vitamin A
What vitamin reduces morbidity and mortality of measles by 50% (prevent eye damage and blindness)?
Vitamin A
Exposure to what compound will result in microtia?
Isotretinoin (Accutane used for acne!) – if exposed in utero, microtia can result
Microtia: incomplete development and growth of pinna (outer ear)
Child has microtia of his R ear. What other organ system(s) would you assess?
RENAL, cardiac, limbs, facial
Compression failure of bone where metaphysics & diaphysis meet?
Buckle (Torus) fracture
Common in distal radius
Fracture due to plasticity of bone cortex in kids where one side of the bone is fractures while the other side is bent?
Greenstick fracture
Infant born to a diabetic mother. What is one of the first initial tests you want on the baby after delivery? Why?
Blood glucose level
During pregnancy, baby was producing high levels of insulin to combat the high blood sugars from mom. Now after being removed from the food source, the baby still produces large amounts of insulin –> will rapidly become hyPOglycemic –> get blood sugar level
What congenital defects are suspicious for being exposed to diabetes in utero?
Sacral agenesis, small L colon, cardiac defects
Infant of diabetic mothers can have polycythemia. Why?
During pregnancy in a mom w/ diabetes –> macrosomia, increased O2 requirements, and placental insufficiency all lead to perinatal asphyxia –> signals erythropoietin production in kidneys –> polycythemia
Polycythemia will cause increased bilirubin levels (excess breakdown of fetal RBCs)
Infant has poor HR & peri-oral cyanosis despite intubation and PPV. Why?
Infant of diabetic mother –> complication is cardiac defects!
Aside from CF, what is another cause of meconium ileus?
Infant of diabetic mother w/ small L colon syndrome –> seen in first 2 days of life w/ abdominal distention and vomiting
Child has cough for more than 2 weeks. What are you thinking? Next best initial step?
Pertussis
Nasopharyngeal aspirate (culture for Bordatella)
What are the triad of symptoms in Henoch-Schonlein Purpura?
1) Purpuric rash (LE and trunk)
2) Joint swelling/pain w/ decreased ROM
3) Abdominal pain
Worry of intussusception w/ onset of abdominal pain
Explosive non-bilious vomiting? What other finding on physical exam?
Pyloric stenosis
Olive-shaped mass near umbilicus
Intermittent, progressively worsening abdominal pain, currant-jelly blood-red stools/diarrhea, and sausage-shaped abdominal mass?
Intussusception
In a child with asthma, initial lung sounds reveal very faint wheezes w/ reduced air movement. After treatment, wheezing increases. Why? Is this normal?
This is normal - more airways are opening up and airway obstruction is starting to decrease from the treatment
Most common cause of neonatal sepsis?
GBS
Is ELISA an accurate test for newborns in assessment of HIV status?
NO - mother will have passes maternal antibodies for HIV to baby transplacentally. Baby will have (+) ELISA, but doesn’t truly have HIV
Newborn w/ high resp rate and grunting 1 hr after birth. Good tone and color. Why?
Transient tachypnea of newborn (TTN)
Incomplete evacuation of fetal lung fluid in full-term infants –> resolves in 24-48 hrs of life w/ supplemental O2
Describe the physiology behind VSD as a child grows.
After birth, pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) falls w/in several weeks to normal levels –> this gradually decreases the initial pressure in the RV –> allows blood to eventually flow from L –> R ventricles via VSD
This is what causes the audible murmur around 3-6 months of age
What is Eisenmenger syndrome?
Overtime, RVH leads to increased pulmonary artery pressure, causing pulm HTN –> response of lungs is vasoconstrict, further increasing pulm artery & RV pressure –> the pulm arteries will hypertrophy and become irreversible by age 5 if not corrected –> results in R –> L shunt
Child presents w/ one side of body (arm & leg) larger in size than other side. What is this called? What are associations?
Hemihypertrophy
- Wilms tumor (look for flank/abd mass, aniridia, GU defects)
- Focal nodular hyperplasia of liver (non-malignant tumor): RUQ mass
- Beckwith-Widemann syndrome: pediatric overgrowth disease (macrosomia, gigantism, hemihypertrophy, macroglossia, omphalocele)
What is the syndrome of pediatric overgrowth of numerous parts of the body? What are associations with this syndrome?
Beckwith-Wiedmann syndrome
Macrosomia, gigantism, hemihypertrophy, macroglossia, omphalocele
Child has several week history of spiking fevers w/ associated rash & body aches that wax and wane with the fevers. Several days after the onset of fevers, the child refuses to bear weight. What do you suspect? What lab tests do you do to confirm? What complication do you have to test for frequently?
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)
Labs: increased WBC & platelets w/ anemia
Anterior Uveitis (inflammation of iris & ciliary body)
1) Baby breastfeeding from vegan mom at risk for what vitamin deficiency?
2) What supplements must you give to baby on goat’s milk?
1) Vit B12
2) Vit B12, folate, iron
5 viral exanthems?
Rubeola (measles) Rubella Roseola Variola (varicella or chickenpox) Fifth's disease (erythema infectiosum)
Illness where 3-4 days high (104F) fevers that then abruptly stop w/ sudden onset of a rash as soon as fevers subside?
Roseola (HHV-6)
Child w/ an infection is placed on Abx. His conditions worsen over the next 2 days. Why? Do you need to change Abx?
Abx take 24-48 hrs to start taking effect –> symptoms WILL worsen 1-2 days after starting Abx and there is no need to change Abx
Child w/ presence of infection and fevers and placed on appropriate Abx. At day 4 of treatment, child still have fevers despite the Abx. Why? Next appropriate step?
Suspect ABSCESS
The Abx will help reduce the infection and as the bacterial are killed off, they can easily form an abscess –> no amount of Abx will help!
Need to drain the abscess! Once drained, the Abx can be effective again