Review Course Flashcards
For a kid with a suspected effusion what is the first diagnostic modality
Ultrasound
Patient with acalculus cholecystitis. Thickened gallbladder and positive Murphys with upper respiratory symptoms and findings. Management?
Supportive care
Probably EBV or other virus
ESRD and mircrocytic anemia needing a transfusion. What to tell the blood bank?
Leukoreduced PRBCs
Is development of right or left handedness normal before 24 mos?
No
R/o CP
Retropharyngeal abscess has pain with what movement? Best study to dx?
Extension
CT
Patient mycoplama induced rash and mucosotis. Dx?
Mycoplasma pneumoniae-induced rash and mucositis (MIRM)
Kid has signs of interstitial nephritis and is on frequent NSAID dosing for fever. Dx and tx?
AIN
DC NSAID and give fluids
Initial antibiotic treatment for PID
Clindamycin and gentamicin (parenteral recommendation) or cefoxitin/cefotetan and doxycycline
Kid has allergic transfusion rxn with just hives. Infusion stopped and they improve. What to do next?
Resume transfusion
No steroids or fluids needed
9 mos old with microcytic anemia. What work up to do
Consider Thalassemia or lead poisoning so do hemoglobin electrophoresis which will differentiate iron deficiency anemia with Mentzer index
First line treatment of excessive menstrual bleeding
25 mg of conjugated equine estrogen
Patient with neurocysticercosis
(Tapeworm in brain). Tx?
Albendazole and dexamethasone
Patient with intracranial hypertension or pseudotumor cerebri. She has a fulminant case with rapid visual changes and evidence of swelling of optic nerve sheaths. What is the definitive treatment for that patient?
Cerebrospinal fluid diversion procedure
What is Wolfram syndrome
is the combination of diabetes insipidus and mellitus with optic atrophy and bilateral neurosensory hearing loss. A mutation in a gene in the 4p16 region predisposes to multiple mitochondrial DNA deletions in families with Wolfram syndrome
Pt on carbamazepine with unsteady wide based gait (cerebral ataxia). Multiple caregivers. Work up?
Serum carbamazepine level
Signs of congenital hypothyroidism
Umbilical hernia, poor feeding, constipation, hyperthermia, sleepy, hyperbilirubinemia
How to manage heat stroke? Hyperthermic, confused, temp over 40
Immersive cooling
If young child or infant, don’t do it because bradycardia
How do you treat diabetes inspitus?
Desmopressin challenge
Nonspecific findings that seem like sepsis in a newborn or neonate, with no reported fever in addition to poor feeding, emesis, sleepiness, abnormal tone, and in particular when it’s in the first two weeks of life. Increased anion gap metabolic acidosis. Hypoglycemia with ketones, increased tone, sleepy
Think about inborn errors of metabolism
Maple syrup urine disease
GALT deficiency on NMS is what? Poor feeding lethargy and jaundice on presentation
Change to soy based formula for galactosemia
Associated with E. coli sepsis
The patient has poor feeding over the three days of her illness, and her weight was on the lower end of the percentile, and then with the hypoglycemia is seen on lab work and ketones in the urine. This is a pretty classic case for ketotic hypoglycemia. How to diagnose?
Elevated beta hydroxybutyrate
Can breastfeeding moms use THC?
Review health risks with mom
It does transfer to milk but no recommendations for DC breastfeeding
First time DKA treatment without hypovolemic shock
10 ML/kg isotonic fluid bolus, second bolus within first hour as needed, start insulin infusion at 0.1 units per/kg/hr after initial hour of fluid resuscitation
Witnessed Non fatal drowning with stable patient and exam with rales in the lung base
Supportive care and monitoring
CXR leads to over diagnosis of PNA
Usually symptoms will develop by around seven hours after the incident
3 cm dog bite cleaned and closed in the operating room. Dog vaccinated. What antibiotics do you need?
Amoxicillin clavulanate for 3 to 5 days
What is becks triad? Tx?
Beck’s triad is a set of three clinical signs that indicate cardiac tamponade, a medical emergency that occurs when fluid builds up around the heart:
Low blood pressure (hypotension)
Bulging neck veins
Muffled or distant heartbeats
Pericardiocentesis
Patient with CP worse w a deep breath, better leaning forward, friction rub. Dx? Cause?
Pericarditis
Viruses like adenovirus
Patient with endocarditis (positive blood culture and vegetations). Treatment?
Need to use a bacteriocidal antibiotic. Vancomycin (clindamycin is bacteriostatic)
Viral URI prodrome which seems to improve but then leads to symptoms of heart failure. Dx and work up?
Cardiomyopathy - diagnostically need cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
In order for testing for CMV to be accurate in a neonate, it needs to be ordered no later than
3 weeks
It becomes difficult to differentiate between congenital CMV and postnatal acquired CMV