some Q Flashcards
How many calories do infants consume a day?
~ 120 kcal/kg/day
should be fed at least 8 times a day
How many calories do Breast milk give?
~ 60- 70cal/100 mL
Screening tests for newborn
● Heel stick test
● Ultrasound ~ 4-6 weeks: brain, abdomen, hip
● Orthopedic manual examination: hip, feet
● Hearing test: brainstem evoked response audiometry (BERA)
● Ophthalmoscope examination of the retina (retinoblastoma)
Clinical presentation EBV
● Fever
● Sore throat (more painful than strep) +/- exudate
● Cervical lymphadenopathy commonly anterior and posterior cervical lymph node (may compromise the airway)
● Splenomegaly (90%); 2–3 cm below the left costal margin is typical
● Hepatomegaly (10%)
● Fatigue and malaise (might take from 6 months to few years to improve)
● Rash
EBV incubation time
1-2 months
Scarlet Fever incubation time
2-4 days
Scarlet Fever rash
Erythematous, sandpaper-like rash from neck to trunk and extremities.
Blanches on pressure.
Palms and soles typically spared, but may desquamate afterwards.
Rubella incubation time and lymphadenopathy
14-21 days
lymphadenopathy (specifically postauricular / occipital)
Enterobius vermicularis (Pinworm)
- spread
- Sx
- Dx
feco-oral route / Autoinfection
Sx:
• Anal and vulvar itching (more at night)
• Enuresis
Dx:
• Visualizing the adult worm at night on the perineum
• Transparent tape collected
perinatal infections
Bacterial:
- GBS, Listeria. (bacteremia, meningitis)
- Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia trachomatis (neonatal eye infx)
Viral:
- HIV (85-90% during birth)
- HBV
- HSV
TORCH infx
Toxo - hydrocephalus, diffuse cerebral calcifications, and chorioretinitis
Rubella - eye, ear, and heart are affected
CMV - periventricular calcifications, microcephaly, and sensorineural hearing loss
HSV - severe brain destruction, chorioretinitis, and skin lesions
Other:
Syphilis - saddle nose, CNS involvement, and Hutchinson’s triad (peg-shaped upper central incisors, deafness, and interstitial keratitis)
Early neonatal sepsis
Early – onset sepsis: <48 hrs after birth
● Source: birth canal, amniotic fluid
● GBS, E.coli, staph epidermidis, listeria, haemophilus influenzae
Late neonatal sepsis
Late –onset sepsis: >48 hrs after birth
● Source: environment
● Coagulase – negative staphylococcus (S. epidermidis), S. aureus, Enterococcus faecalis, E.coli, Pseudomonas, Klebsiella, Serratia
Hodgkin typical
16 year old (15-19) boy with weight loss, fever, night sweats (B Sx) and a large non-tender cervical node (or supracalvicular)
Spread contiguously
CD 15/30 |. Reed-sternberg
Tx: ABVD +- radio
Non-Hodgkin
spread non-contiguously
more extralymphatic involvement
Lugano classification
Tx: R-CHOP +- radio