Pediatrics Flashcards
First teeth
6-8 months
First food
6 months
Crawling
9 months
Assisted walking
10-14 months
Unassisted walking
12-18 months
Talking: 10-15 word vocabulary
18 months
Umbilical cord falls off in how many days?
7-10 days
What fontanelle closes at 3 months
Posterior fontanelle
What fontanelle closes at 2 years
Anterior fontanelle
What indicates dehydration?
Depressed fontanelle
What happens to fontanelle due to intracranial pressure from brain tumor; possible excessive crying
Bulging fontanelle
APGAR score checks for what?
- Heart rate (pulse)
- Respiratory rate
- Color (appearance)
- Muscle tone (grimace)
- Reflex activity
- ** Does NOT check for WEIGHT ***
When is the APGAR score checked?
1 minute & 5 minutes after birth *****
Fuzzy hair on baby who is born premature?
Lanugo
1st discharge from the intestine of newborn (poop)
Meconium
Bluish, ill-defined areas of the skin in the buttock/scrotal region (most common in olive colored skin)
Mongolian Spots
Infant born between 26-37 weeks & weighs less than 2500g?
Premature
White cheesy substance on the baby’s skin at birth?
Vernix Caseosa
A mild form of autism
Asperger’s syndrome
Food poisoning produced by honey, corn syrup, and molasses in a newborn (< 1yo)
Botulism
Baby’s head has an unusual shape due to swelling of the scalp; considered benign.
Caput Seccedeum
Similar to seborrheic dermatitis in an adult
Cradle Cap
Bedwetting after already being potty trained
Enuresis
Hemolytic anemia in the fetus or neonate caused by trans-placental transmission of maternal antibodies to fetal RBS’s. The disorder usually results from incompatibility between maternal and fetal blood groups, often Rh (D) antigens.
- Causes pathological jaundice
Erythroblastosis Fetalis
