Hematology
The best method of administering iron for an infant with iron deficiency anemia.
What is a straw or dropper?
A bacterial skin infection that is highly contagious and has honey-colored crusting.
What is impetigo?
ABCDE
What is airway assessment, breathing, cardiovascular assessment, disability/neurologic assessment, and exposure assessment.
The interventions performed in an infant with apnea.
What is tapping the infant's feet, keeping the child in a room that is not too hot or cold, and being prepared to resusitate the infant.
The systolic or diastolic blood pressure is between the 90th and 95th percentile in children and is best treated with weight reduction and exercise.
What is primary hypertension?
Red blood cells are destroyed and become sickle-shaped in this disease.
What is sickle cell disease?
Oral nystatin is applied after feeding by swabbing the mouth and rubbing it into the gums and tongue for this infection.
What is oral candidiasis or thrush?
The initial cardiac assessment by a nurse for a child not in distress that is not threatening.
What is taking a history and inspecting the child?
A condition that may be a bacterial infection that commonly follows an upper respiratory infection or otitis media, and the child may have halitosis.
What is sinusitis?
The infection that a child had 2 to 6 weeks before developing acute rheumatic fever.
What is group A beta-hemolytic infection?
Bleeding into a joint cavity in a child with hemophilia.
What is hemarthrosis?
A disorder of the sebaceous hair follicles.
What is acne?
The amount of time before a preschooler should be told about an impending procedure.
What is seconds?
The second step in treating allergic rhinitis in children.
What is antihistamine medication?
The position the infant should be placed in when a tet spell occurs
What is a knee-chest position?
DDAVP or desmopressin acetate is commonly used to treat children with this disease.
What is Von Willebrand disease?
Medication that takes 3 to 5 months to see a measurable reduction in acne.
What is Retin-A?
Methods used to help a preschooler cope when being seen in the ED?
The child with a chronic, nonproductive cough or wheezing may have this condition.
What is asthma?
Soon after birth, the fetal heart structure fails to close, and blood flows from the higher-pressure aorta into the lower-pressure pulmonary artery, creating a left-to-right shunt. A continuous, machinery-like murmur can be auscultated.
What is patent ductus arteriosus?
Chelation is used to remove iron from organs in individuals with this disorder.
What is beta-thalassemia?
The two insects whose bites can be life-threatening.
What are the brown recluse and black widow?
The first treatments that most likely will be ordered for a child in sickle cell disease crisis.
What are hydration and pain management?
Medication commonly given to a child with cystic fibrosis.
What are pancreatic enzymes?
Medication that is used in congestive heart failure to increase cardiac output.
What is digoxin?