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Physical milestones and failure to thrive Flashcards

1
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Development =

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Increase in the complexity of the organisms due to maturation of the nervous system

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Types of development:

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Physical
Emotional
Functional
Psychological 
Social
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4 areas of development:

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  1. gross motor
  2. fine motor and vision
  3. hearing, speech and language
  4. social skills and behaviour
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Ex of gross motor skills =

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Walking, running, climbing, jumping

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Why should you always assess all areas of development?

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Not every issue is a global issue

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6
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Red flags =

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Points at which you should refer

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7
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Gross motor is a what progression?

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Cephalo-caudal progression

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3 months GM =

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Hold head up 45 degrees prone

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6 months Gm =

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Sit up without support

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10
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Red flag for sit up =

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9 months

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11
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9 months GM =

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Crawling

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12 months GM =

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Walking

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13
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Running and jumping by

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2.5 years

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14
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Red flag for walking =

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18 months

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15
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Why is the red flag for walking when it is?

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2 SD from mean

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16
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Most children with a walking delay will be

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Normal late walkers, smaller risk of neurological/muscular disease

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17
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Neurological disease which can cause walking delay

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Cerebral palsy

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18
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Muscular disease which can cause walking delay

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Duchenne muscular dystrophy

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19
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Ex of fine motor skills =

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Grabbing
Transferring from hands
Building blocks
Radial/palmar grasp
Mature pincer grip
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20
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Scribbling:

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Line - 2 yrs
Circle - 3 yrs
Square - 4 yrs
Triangle - 5 yrs

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21
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6 months FM =

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Palmar grasp

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22
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10 months FM =

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Mature pincer grip

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23
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Red flag for mature pincer grip =

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12 months

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24
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Tower of 3 =

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18 months

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25
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Tower of 6 =

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2 years

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Tower of 8 =

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2.5 years

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Speech vs language =

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Speech - sounds

Language - content and organisation

28
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Types of hearing loss:

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Conductive
Sensorineural
Mixed

29
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What can cause problems with speech and language?

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Hearing loss
Forming words (muscles, palate)
Wernickes, Broca's area from hypoxia/ischemia 
global develoment problem
Environmental deprivation
Autism spectrum disorder
30
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Ex of social and behavioural behaviour =

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Waving
Smiling
Peek-a-boo
Stranger danger
Pointing
Imaginative play
Toilet training
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Smiling =

32
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Smiling red flag =

33
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Stranger danger =

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8-10 months

34
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Speech 3 months =

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1 syllable

35
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Speech at 10 months =

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2 syllables

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Speech at 12 months =

37
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What do children need in psychological needs?

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Security
Role models
Opportunity to learn
Independence
Self respect
Personal identity 
Attention
Play
38
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Who checks on development?

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Patents/grandparents
GP
Health visitor
Nursery
Pediatrician 
Speech and language therapists
Play therapists
39
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Times when development can be surveyed:

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  • Newborn exam
  • 6-8 week check at GP
  • 1 year health visitor
  • 2-2.5 health visitor
40
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Regression =

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Having a skill and losing it

41
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Ex of red flag with hand preference =

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Early hand preference (before 18 months). Before this could be a sign of something wrong with the hand they’re not using

42
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Persistent toe walking is a sign of =

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Increased tone

43
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Isolated delay =

44
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Delay in 4 domains =

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Global delay

45
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Problems with weight:

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Obesity

Failure to thrive

46
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4 phases of growth =

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  1. Fetal
  2. Infancy
  3. Childhood
  4. Puberty
47
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Fastest growth is at what age?

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in first 2 years

48
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In week 1, how much weight can a baby lose?

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10% of birth weight

49
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Should regain birth weight at

50
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Weight by 5 months =

51
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Weight by 12 months -

52
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What influenced growth?

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Genetic potential
Intra-uterine conditions
Post-natal nutrition
Diet
Hormonal status
Health
Nurturing social environment
53
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Why can poor health slow growth?

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Some conditions have high nutritional/metabolic demands

54
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In FTT, patient should fall =

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2 centiles

55
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Traditionally, FTT can be spilt into:

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Organic

Non-organic

56
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Organic FTT makes up what %?

57
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4 broad causes of FTT =

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Inadequate intake
Inadequate retention
Malabsorption
Failure to utilise
Increased requirements
58
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Ex of inadequate intake =

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Poor technique
Wrong milk
Social
Palate

59
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Ex of inadequate retention =

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Vomiting

GORD

60
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Ex of malabsorption =

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Cows milk protein intolerance
Cystic fibrosis
Short gut

61
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Ex of failure to utilise:

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Renal, liver disease

62
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Ex of increased requirements:

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Thyrotoxiosis
Cystic fibrosis
Chronic infections
Malignancy
Heart disease
63
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How to assess FTT:

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  • Hx and FHx
  • Accurate social history
  • Observe parent-child interaction
  • Nutritional assessment: weights, height, dietary diary, FBC, albumin, vitamins, minerals
64
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Things to remember with Marfans’s =

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Heart (aortic dilation), eyes (lens displacement)

65
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Signs of DMD =

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Waddling gait
Slow to walk
Calf pseudohypertrophy
Gower’s sign

66
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DMD can lead to =

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Respiratory failure

Dialted cardiomyopathy

67
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DMD is a mutation in =

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Dystrophin gene - dystrophin stabalises sarcolemma

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