Peds Exam 1-S5 Flashcards
Preterm baby classification
< 2500 grams?
Low birth weight
Preterm baby classification
< 1500 grams?
Very low birth weight
Preterm baby classification
< 1000 grams?
Extremely low birth
Preterm baby classification
< 750 grams?
Micropremies
Baby A is born 28 4/7 weeks. He is currently 5 months old what is corrected age?
40-28 =12 weeks early
5 months -3 months (12 wks)
=2 months corrected
He should be reaching milestones of a 2 month old even tho he is 5 months
Head lift associated with what milestone?
3 month milestone
Milestone age correction calculation?
Actual age - # of weeks premature
= actual age
Glottic opening of Preterm infant is at what cervical vertebrae?
C3
Glottic opening of Full term infant is at what cervical vertebrae?
C3-C4
Glottic opening of an Adult is at what cervical vertebrae?
C4-C5
The epiglottis of an Infant is what shape and what angle?
Omega shaped
Floppy angle away from trachea
Use Miller to lift epiglottis
What are these age developmental?
- Understand more words than they say
- Aware of surroundings through all 5 senses
- Stranger anxiety
- Dont like to be on back
Toddlers
1-3 years
What are these age developmental?
- Understand the world in subjective/self referential ways.
- No capacity for abstract thought
- Know 1200 words by end of term
- Fear of bodily harm
- “magical thinking”
- Offer choices/ roleplay
Preschool age
3-6 years
What are these age developmental?
- Hypothetical thinking
- Fear of pain or bodily harm
- Can understand basic physiological concepts
- School/social circles
- Encourage choices and reassurance
Grade school age
7-12 years
What are these age developmental?
- Self conscious about how perceived by others
- Explore independence from parents
- worried about what friends think
- address patient primarily
Adolescents
11-12+ years
Solid food and cereal should be stopped how long before surgery ?
8 hours
Cows milk and formula should be stopped how long before surgery ?
6 hours
Breast milk should be stopped how long before surgery ?
4 hours
Clear fluids should be stopped how long before surgery ?
2 hours
ETT size calculation for uncuffed?
Age/4 +4 = tube size
Age divided by 4 +4
ETT depth calculation?
Tube size x 3 for depth
Surfactants are produced at what week in utero?
22-26 weeks gestation
Peak at 36 weeks
Surfactant is produced by what?
Type II pneumocytes
____ stabilizes the alveoli and prevents their collapse on expiration. It _____ the surface tension and recruits alveoli?
Surfactant
Reduces
What can be given in effort to accelerate the biochemical processes in lung maturation?
Corticosteroids
A patient with a history of what is prone to laryngospasm?
URI in past 2 weeks
wheezing
cough
smoke exposure
asthma
eczema
Elective surgery is postponed for how long in a patient with URI and symptoms of
- mucopurulent secretions
- lower respiratory tract infection
- pyrexia >100.4
- change in sensorium (not acting normal)
2-4 weeks
Treatment for laryngospasm in infant/peds surgery?
1 Larsons manuever with positive pressure in “laryngospasm notch”
Succinycholine 4mg/kg IM
Treat bradycardia with catecholamines
A child with uncomplicated URI who is afebrile with clear secretions and otherwise healthy may proceed with surgery?
T/F
True
Can proceed
What is the most common lower respiratory tract infection?
RSV
Respiratory syncytial virus
What are some common types of lower airway diseases?
RSV
Croup/Laryngotracheobronchitis
What chronic disease in children is complex associated with airway obstruction, inflammation and hyperresponsiveness of the airways?
Asthma
What is the most common clinical manifestation of asthma?
Chronic dry cough
Severe respiratory distress during acute asthma exacerbation are associated with what clinical symptoms?
-Chest wall retractions
-Accessory muscle use
-prolonged expiration
-pneumothorax
What is the best IV induction agent for children with asthma?
Ketamine
it is a bronchodilator
Which anesthetic agent is associated with increased risk of bronchospasm in asthmatics?
Desflurane
Treatment for bronchospasm in pediatric patients?
1st- remove triggering stimulus
- deepen anesthesia
- Increase Fi02
- Decrease PEEP
- Increase expiratory time to minimize air trapping
This condition is an autosomal recessive disorder involving disregulation of chloride?
- Causes increased sweat chloride conc
- viscous mucus production
- recurrent exacerbations with airway obstruction
- congenital absence of vas deferens
- Hyperventilation is compensatory
- end stage cor pulmonale
- exercise tolerance and fitness are predictors of survival
- must have complete reversal of NMBA
Cystic Fibrosis
This condition is an inherited hemoglobinopathy cause by point mutation on chromosome 11
- acute episodes of pain
- acute/chronic pulmonary disease
- hemorrhagic/occlusive stroke
- Hemoglobin S
Sickle cell disease
Acute chest syndrome (ACS) is caused by what?
- precipitated by infection, fat embolism and pulmonary infarction
Sickle cell disease
___ are historically considered obligate nose breathers?
Neonates
The airway is most narrow at the level of the ____ _____?
Cricoid cartilage, just below the vocal cords
Neonates born via cesarean section do not experience what?
Same thoracic squeeze as vaginal birth and therefore retain more fluid in lungs
T/F
The sniffing position will help you visualize the glottis in peds patients?
NO
due to high cervical position at C3
need shoulder roll
Closing volumes are _____ in infants and young children?
Greater
due to lack of chest wall muscle
Children have a higher closing capacity than ____?
FRC
Which 2 nerves supply sensory and motor innervation to the larynx?
Superior and Recurrent laryngeal nerves
Which nerve branch provides sensory innervation to the supraglottic region?
Internal Branch of superior laryngeal
Which nerve branch supplies motor innervation to the cricothyroid muscle?
External Branch of superior laryngeal
Which nerve branch provides sensory innervation to the subglottic larynx and motor innervation to all other laryngeal muscles?
Recurrent laryngeal
Cuffed ETT calculation?
Age/4 + 3.5
or -0.5 of uncuffed
What is the uncuffed and cuffed ETT size for a 5 year old?
Uncuffed= 5
Cuffed= 4.5
What is the uncuffed ETT size for a neonate-6 months?
3 or 3.5
What is the treatment for postextubation croup?
Nebulized epinephrine, dexamethasone
Infants require which ventilator mode when intubated?
Pressure controlled ventilation
with rapid RR and PEEP
Ventilator guidelines for infants?
RR- ?
PIP-?
PEEP-?
Fi02-?
RR- 30
PIP- 16-30 based on weight
PEEP- 4
Fi02- 0.4-1
Normal tidal volumes for infants?
6-8 ml/kg
Same as adults