Pediatrics Flashcards
MC type of tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF). Dx?
Esophageal atresia with distal TEF (85%)
-Unable to pass NG tube
Not contraindications to vaccination
Mild illness and/or low-grade fever, current abx, prematurity
Tests to r/o shaken baby syndrome
Ophthalmologic exam, CT, and MRI
A neonate has meconium ileus
CF or Hirschprung’s dz
Bilious emesis within hours after the first feeding
Duodenal atresia
2 mo baby presents with non-bilious projectile emesis. What are the appropriate steps in management?
Correct metabolic abnormalities. Then correct pyloric stenosis with pyloromyotomy.
MC 1˚ immunodeficiency
Selective IgA deficiency
Infant has a high fever and onset of rash as fever breaks. What is he at risk for?
Febrile szs (roseola infantum)
Immunodeficiency: boy has chronic respiratory infxns, (-) nitroblue tetrazolium test
Chronic granulomatous dz
Immunodeficiency: child has eczema, TCP, and high IgA levels
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
Immunodeficiency: 4 mo M has life-threatening pseudomonas infxn
Bruton’s X-linked agammaglobulinemia
Acute-phase tx for Kawasaki dz
- High-dose ASA for inflammation and fever
- IVIG to prevent coronary a. aneurysms
Tx for mild and severe unconjugated hyperbilirubinemia
Phototherapy (mild) or exchange transfusion (severe)
Sudden onset of mental status changes, emesis, and liver dysfcn after taking ASA
Reye’s syndrome
Child has loss of red light reflex. Dx?
Suspect retinoblastoma
Vaxs at a 6 mo WCC
HBV, DTaP, Hib, IPV, PCV
Tanner stage 3 in a 6 yo F
Precocious puberty
Infxn of small AWs with epidemics in winter and spring
RSV bronchiolitis
Cause of neonatal RDS
Surfactant deficiency
Condition a/w red “currant jelly” stools
Intussusception
Congenital heart dz that causes 2˚ HTN
Coarctation of the ao
1st line tx for otitis media
Amox x 10d
MC pathogen causing croup
Parainfluenza virus type 1
Homeless child small for age with peeling skin and swollen belly
Kwashiorkor (protein malnutrition)
Defect in an X-linked syndrome with mental retardation, gout, self-mutilation, and choreoathetosis
Lesch-Nyhan syndrome (purine salvage problem with HGPRT deficiency)
Newborn F has a continuous “machinery murmur”
Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
Nontender abdominal mass a/w elevated VMA and HVA
Neuroblastoma