Peds A+P Dan Miller Style!!! Flashcards
Ages for Peds: New Born? Infant? Toddler? Preschooler? School age? Adolescent
Newborn -> 0-1 month Infant -> 1-12 months Toddler -> 1-3 yrs Preschool -> 4-6 yrs School -> 6-13 yrs Adolescent -> 13-18 yrs
Fetal Circulation
What should close in the fetus after delivery
Foramen Ovale
Ductus Arteriosus
Ductus Venosus
Why do these fetal heart changes take place
Pressure changes in the circulatory system
- Reduction of pulmonary vascular resistance
- Elevation of systemic vascular resistance
3 things stimulate the New born to take its first breath what are they??
Hypoxia, acidosis, sensory stimulation
Taking the first breath facilitates what in the Pulmonary vasculature?
Increases arterial and aveolar oxygen tension which helps reduce pulmonary vascular resistance
Why does the Foramen Ovale close
decreased right atrial pressure
increase SVR
removal of placental prostaglandins
Why dose the Ductus arteriosus close
PVR and SVR pressure changes
removal of placental prostaglandins
Why dose the Ductus Venosus close
Factors causing Persistant Pulmonary HTN
Hypoxemia
acidosis
hypothermia
preterm
meconium aspiration
congenital diaphramatic hernia
Persistant Pulmonary HTN
Treatement for Persistant Pulm. HTN
Nitric oxide inhalation
New borns brath through their nose or mouth
obligate nasal breathers
Gross anatomy differences from adults
large epiglotis
large tongue
large occiput
short neck
What is the narrowest point in the new born airway
cricoid cartilage
Cricoid is shaped like a ???
funnel
cuffed or uncuffed tubes
uncuffed and should hear a leak at 20-25 cm H2O
Newborns till age 5 have proportionally smaller distal airways, this causes
Increase work of breathing
Respiratory physiology for a Newborn
Increased O2 consumption
increased metabolic rate
increased aveolar ventilation
increased ventilatory rate
Decreased FRC
Infants have a increased closing capacity, this means??
Why are SNS and baroreceptors blunted in the infant
Immature and this causes a blunted response to EPI and ephedrine as well as endogenous catacholamines
Is the parasympathetic NS fully developed??
YES at birth and controlled HR in utero
Neonate/ Newborn cardiac out is mainly dependant upon
HR Neonate
160’s
HR and BP Newborn
120’s
60ish Systolic
Fetal Hemoglobin is special why?
higher affinity for O2
Fetal Hgb causes a R or L shift in the curve??
Fetal Hgb also causes and increase in ??
2,3-DPG
What causes the newborn to produce adult Hgb at about 2-3 months
The life cycle of the Fetal Hgb
The spinal cord ends where in pediatrics??
L3