Sick term infant Flashcards
1
Q
when is neonatal period
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birth-28 days
2
Q
APGAR appearance = blue or pale pulse = absent grimace = no response activity = none respiration = absent
A
score = 0 for each
3
Q
APGAR appearance = pink body, blue extremities pulse = <100 grimace = feeble cry activity = some flexion respiration = weak, irregular gasping
A
score = 5 (1 point for each)
4
Q
APGAR appearance = no cyanosis pulse = >100 grimace = cry or pull away activity = flexed arms and legs that resist extension respiration = strong cry
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score = 10 (2 for each section)
5
Q
normal perinatal HR
A
120-140
6
Q
normal perinatal resp rate
A
40-60/min
7
Q
empirical antibodies given to new borns
A
benzyl-penicillin
gentamycin
8
Q
reasons for sick baby
A
congenital anomaly
pregnancy/birth related
metabolic
infection
9
Q
common sites of infection in newborn
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blood - bacteraemia/septicaemia meningitis pneumonia UTI (boys in first month of life) skin bone GI (necrotising enterocolitis)
10
Q
common bacterial infections
A
group B strep (most lethal) ecoli listeria staph a staph epidermidis
11
Q
pregnancy/birth related conditions
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hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy transient tachypnoea of newborn pneumothorax cardiac failure PPHN
12
Q
fluid in horizontal fissure
A
transient tachypnoea of newborn
13
Q
cause of heart failure in new borns
A
rhesus disease
14
Q
congenital cardiac diseases
A
tetralogy of fallot transposition of great arteries coartication of aorta TAPVD hypoplastic heart
15
Q
congenital respiratory diseases
A
trcheo-oesophageal fistula
diaphragmatic hernia
