Pediatrics Flashcards
Underlying defect in fragile X
Increased number of CGG repeats
Next best option for venous access in pediatric patient in whom you cant get a peripheral IV
Intraosseous
First step in workup of an ill-appearing jaundiced infant after 3rd day and within first week of life
Blood cultures and LP to search for sepsis (even if picture seems like FTT)
Test of choice for pyloric stenosis
Abdominal ultrasound
In what age group is doxycycline not the treatment of choice for lyme and in this age group what is the treatment of choice?
Younger than 9. Amoxicillin
Treatment of choice for strep pharyngitis
Oral penicillin. If allergic use a macrolide (azithromycin)
Fever, pharyngitis, sandpaper rash, strawberry tongue
Scarlet fever (Group A strep)
Test of choice for muscular dystrophy
Muscle biopsy
Treatment of choice for a birth related clavicle fracture
Reassurance
Treatment of choice for neonatal chlamydial conjunctivitis
Oral erythromycin (topical erythromycin should not be used as it leaves a risk of chalmydial pneumonia)
At what age should you be concerned about hearing and speech development if a child does not respond to his or her own name?
Around 9 months
Difference in mechanism between infantile and adult botulism
Adult is due to ingestion of toxin, whereas infantile is due to ingestion of the organism itself. Honey is usually the food of transmission
Muscle weakness with temporal wasting, thin cheeks, emaciated extremities, testicular atrophy, and involvement of cardiac and smooth muscle
Myotonic muscular dystrophy (Steinert disease)
Inheritence of myotonic muscular dystrophy (Steinert disease)
Autosomal dominant
In what infection do patients frequently develop a rash after amoxicillin or other antibiotics are administered?
EBV mono
Close contact prophylaxis for pertussis
Erythromycin for 14 days to all contacts (regardless of age, immunizations, or symptoms)
Fever, conjunctivitis, extremity changes, cervical lymphadenopathy, oral changes, rash
Kawasaki
Treatment of an unimmunized child exposed to varicella
Vaccinate within 3-5 days of exposure, if high risk provide VZIG within 96 (preferably 72) hours. If you miss these times from just reassurance and supportive management
Deficiency in Gauchers
Enzyme acid beta-glucosidase
At what age should you treat persistent bedwetting and what is the treatment of choice?
After about age 5. DDAVP or imipramine (if behavioral therapy has failed)
Self-limiting episodes of vomiting and nausea in children without other symptoms or signs of a cause
Cyclical vomiting
Fever, headache, focal neurologic changes, seizure, spacticity, in a child
Suspect brain abscess
RDW in iron deficiency anemia and thalassemia respectively
Increased in IDA, normal in thalassemias
Abdominal distention, bloody diarrhea, leukocytosis in a formula feeding infant
Necrotizing enterocolitis
Cough with subcutaneous emphysema or subconjunctival hemorrhage
Pertussis. The cough can be so severe it can cause things like pneumothorax, subconjunctival hemorrhage, or rectal prolapse
Defect in galactossemia
Galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase
Time frame in infants when chlamydial and gonococcal conjunctivitis respectively are most common
Gonococcus - days 2 to 5, Chlamydia - days 5 to 15 (also usually less purulant than gonococcal)
Test of choice for child with increasing head circumference and signs of increased ICP
CT Head
Congenital heart defect with a normal S1 and a single loud S2 with no murmur
Transposition of the great vessels
Congenital heart defect with a normal S1, single S2 and systolic murmur
Tetralogy
What causes edema in turners patients?
Lymphatic dysgenesis. Dont be suckered into picking the horsehoe kidney
Neonate with bloody diarrhea, eosinophils in stool, and FH of atopy
Milk protein intolerance
What can be a long term complication of Henoch-Schonlein purpura?
Intussusception
Scrotal swelling, hematuria, and abdominal pain in a child
Henoch-Schonlein purpura. Will also have palpable pupura
Most common finding on MRI of brain and spinal cord in Frederichs ataxia
Marked atrophy of cervical spine with minimal cerebellar atrophy
Hand paralysis and ipsilateral Horners in an infant
Klumpke paralysis (injury to C7, C8, and T1 during birth)
Most common organisms in otitis media
Strep pneumo (40 percent), H flu (25-30 percent), Moraxella catarrhalis (10-15 percent)
What features make a partial seizure with secondary generalization more likely than a complex partial seizure in someone who had aura and LoC?
Tongue biting and bowel or bladder incontinence
Classic prenatal ultrasound finding in TORCH infections
Non-head sparing IUGR (i.e. body and head are both small)
Most likely long-term complication of vesicoureteral reflux with UTIs and pyelo
Renal scarring
Deficiency in Lesch-Nyhan
HGPRT
Fever, lethargy, new murmur in a child after a viral illness
Myocarditis
Physical exam findings in patients with a PDA
Usually unremarkable. You may have mildly accentuated peripheral pulses, however
Newborn male with oliguria and midline mass in the lower abdomen. Most likely diagnosis?
Posterior urethral valves (urethral obstruction)
Typical age of presentation and most common risk factor for slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE)
10-16. Obesity
3-4 month old with hypoglycemia, lactic acidosis, hyperuricemia, and hyperlipidemia
Von Gierkes (Glucose-6-Phosphate deficiency)
Next step in management of a stable child who swallowed liquid alkali
Upper GI endoscopy (do not attempt to neutralize or lavage)
Most common presentation of sickle cell trait
Painless hematuria
Abdominal pain, hematemesis, shock, and metabolic acidosis in a child who may have ingested something
Iron poisoning
Child with Downs syndrome who presents with upper motor neuron findings
Atlantoaxial instability (a complication of Downs which involves spinal cord compression)
Indications for surgery in umbilical hernias
Persistence beyond 3-4 years, exceeding 2 cm in diameter, causing symptoms, strangulation, or progressive enlargement after age 1-2 years
Barking cough, hoarseness, respiratory distress
Croup (parainfluenza infection). Typically children younger than 3
What normal finding can be mistaken on CXR for cardiomegaly, lung infiltrate, or atelectasis in infants and how is it differentiated?
Thymic shadow. Sail sign (shape of a sail on right edge) suggests its the thymus youre seeing
Infant presenting with cyanosis aggrevated by feeding and relieved by crying
Choanal atresia
Adverse reactions to the DTaP vaccine are usually thought to be caused by which component?
Pertussis
Treatment for asymptomatic VSDs in infants
Reassurance and surveillence (usually close spontaneously)
First step in management of suspected congenital diaphragmatic hernia
Placement of an OG tube
Cyanosis, poor air entry, and shifting of cardiac sounds to the right in a newborn
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
Nidus of infection most common in patients with chronic granulomatous disease
Pneumonia and Suppurtative Adenitis
Bluish white lesions on erythematous buccal mucosa opposite the first and second upper molars
Koplik spots (Measles)
Treatment of choice for increasingly unstable patient with croup
Racemic epinephrine. Should be tried before attempting intubation if possible
HSV infection associated with atopic dermatitis
Eczema herpeticum. Vesicles over the area of atopic dermatitis, can be life-threatening, treat with acyclovir
Cardiac defect in Edwards syndrome
VSD
Most common heart defect in Downs
Endocardial cushion defect (can lead to pulmonary hypertension)
Manifestations of polycythemia in newborns
Respiratory distress, poor feeding, neurologic signs
Fluid of choice for initial resuscitation in severe hypovolemic hypernatremia
Normal saline
New onset hearing loss or chronic ear drainage despite antibiotic therapy in kids
Cholesteatoma (destructive and expanding growth of keratinizing and squamous epithelium in the middle ear)
Child with noisy breathing and epiglottal abnormalities on laryngoscopy
Laryngomalacia
Management of laryngomalacia
Child should be held upright for 30 mins after feeding and never fed while laying down. Usually resolves within first 18 months of life
Bone marrow failure, poor growth, morphologic abnormalities, and macrocytic anemia
Fanconis anemia