PreTest Pediatrics: "The Adolescent"

Question 1

Go through the three grades of concussion and the recommendations for return-to-play timeline.

Answer 1

•Grade 1: no LOC; confusion for less than 15 minutes
- Can return to play immediately upon return to baseline

•Grade 2: no LOC; confusion for greater than 15 minutes
- Can return to play in one week

•Grade 3: LOC
- Go to hospital

Question 2

What are some contraindications to contact sports?

Answer 2

• Having one eye
• Having one kidney
• Hemophilia

Question 3

Puberty has been shown to affect what neurotransmitter important to sleep?

Answer 3

Melatonin

Question 4

One of the ways you can differentiate H. ducreyi from lymphogranuloma venereum is ____________.

Answer 4

that the lymphadenopathy and papule occur at the same time in H. ducreyi, while the papule occurs first in LGV

(“Lgv is Later.”)