Test 1 Flashcards
Why do children deteriorate more quickly than adults?
They have less physiologic reserve than adults
What are the 3 most common neonatal diagnoses?
newborns, hemolytic jaundice and prenatal jaundice, and premies
What are the 3 most common pediatric diagnoses?
Pneumonia, asthma, and acute bronchitis
As an infant what % of their body is their head?
25%
Growth and development are continuous process from what stages of life?
conception to death
When are the 2 biggest growth spurts in children?
0-18 months, and puberty
Growth and development is based on what?
age, sex, genetics, and enviroment
All body systems do not do what in kids?
do not develop at the same rate
Development is what?
cephalocaudal and proximodistal
What needs to be lost in neonates before development can proceed?
neonatal reflexes
What are some neonatal reflexes?
sucking, rooting, stepping, asymmetric neck reflex, grasping, and moro (startle)
When do neonates lose the neonatal reflexes?
4-6 weeks
age range for full term neonate?
38-42 weeks
age range for infant?
1-12 months
age range for a toddle
12-36 months
age range for preschool child
3-5
age range for school age child
6-12
age range for adolescent
12-18
age range for adult
> 18 years
In the toddler age the brain grows how much?
90%
Skills of a preschool child
undress self, can do simple buttons, draws 6 part man, always in motion,
skills of school age child
first molar, skipping, always in motion, coordination improves, puberty
Anatomic differences in peds and adults
smaller airways, inc. resistance to flow (Poiseulle’s law), lymphoid tissue and tongue is bigger, larynx is more anterior, epiglottis is stiffer and U shape, trachea is funnel shaped and narrowest at cricoid (softer, small cricoid membrane, shorter), carnia is at T-3
Implication for intubation in PEDs
harder to find epiglottis, use Sellick maneuver (cricoid pressure), R. mainstem intubation happens more than likely, usually used non cuffed tubes
lung growth continues postnatally until when?
8-12 years of age
Children do no have what when it comes to alveoli?
no Pores of Kohn, alveoli shallow and thicker membranes
Pediatric patients are dependent on what?
diaphragmatic breathing
What demand is higher in infants and children?
metabolic rate
Infants use how much more oxygen per kg?
2 times
How do infants and peds respond to the need to increase minute ventilation
inc. RR