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ChiroBoards2: Peds
ChiroBoards2: Pediatrics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1st teeth: time | 6-8 months |
| First food: time | 6 months |
| Assisted walking: time | 10-14 months |
| Unassisted walking: time | 12- 18 months |
| Talking: time | 10-15 words at 18 months |
| umbilical cord falls off in how many days? | 7-10 |
| posterior fontanelle closes at | 3 months |
| anterior fontanell closes at | 2 years |
| depressed fontanelle indicates | dehydration |
| bulging fontanell indicates | increased intracranial pressure |
| APGAR score components | Heart Rate, Respiration Rate, Color, Muscle tone, Reflex irritability |
| APGAR score: normal score | 7-10 |
| APGAR score: low score | <5 |
| Lanugo | fuzzy hair on baby skin |
| Meconium | 1st discharge from the intestine of newborns |
| Mongolian spots | Bluish, ill-defined areas on buttock/scrotal region |
| premature baby time frame | between 26-37th week |
| premature baby's birth weight | less than 2500 grams |
| Vernix caseosa | white cheesy substance on the baby's skin at birth |
| Caput Succedeum | Baby's head unusual shape due to swelling of scalp; benign |
| Cradle cap | seborrheic dermatitis in infant |
| Enuresis | bedwetting |
| Erythroblastosis fetalis | Hemolytic anemia caused by transfer of maternal antibodies to fetal RBCs |
| Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: causes (3) | delayed growth, microcephaly, retardation |
| Kwashiorkor | Protein Malnutrition (ascites) |
| Leukemia: M/c cancer in (2) | children and in down's syndrome |
| Marasmus | general malnutrition |
| prickly heat: | Miliaria (aka rash) from sweat glands |
| Prolapsed cord: risk of ? | fetal suffocation |
| Vitamin K: does what for newborns? | prevents hemorrhage |
| Rubella aka | German measles, 3 day measles |
| Rubella: s&s | maculopapular rash, mild fever |
| Rubella pregnancy risk: | may result in birth defects if occurs in 1st trimester |
| Rubeola: s&s | koplik spots, coryza (runny nose), buccal mucosa |
| Rubeola: progresses to and complicated by | high fever with maculopapular rash; bronchopneumonia |
| Mumps | mild disease located in the parotid glands and can produce orchitis |
| Croup | barking cough; laryngeal spasm |
| Pertussis aka | Whooping cough |
| Pertussis: orgo | bordetella pertussis |
| Pertussis: most dangerous for: | infants under 1 year of age |
| Pertussis: fatalities due to | bronchopneumonia (death by anoxia) |
| Diphtheria: orgo | corybacterium Diphtheria |
| Diptheria: sign | gray pseudomembrane on the throat |
| Diphtheria: test | Schick test |
| Scarlet Fever: orgo | Group A Strep pyogenes |
| Scarlet Fever: associated signs and test | strawberry tongue ; ASO titer |
| Roseola Infantum | Rash starts on the trunk and goes to the extremities. Occurs at the break of a fever. |
| Landau Reflex | Infant should attempt to raise head and arch the back when placed in prone position |