What device is this?
This device will sound an alarm when the patient becomes bradycardic or stops breathing.
What is an apneic monitor?
Forgetfulness, memory loss, personality changes, and may wander
What are signs of Dementia?
Presbycusis.
What is hearing loss?
Used to assess possible reasons for altered mental status.
What is AEIOU-TIPS?
Signs and symptoms of increased work of breathing.
What is nasal flaring, retractions, accessory muscle use, tripod position, abnormal breath sounds?
Prevents excess CSF from accumulating in the brain.
What is a ventricular peritoneum shunt or ventricular atrium shunt
Challenges with social skills. Often has repetitive behaviors, speech, and nonverbal communication.
What is Autism?
Thickening, hardening, or calcifying of the arteries.
What is arteriosclerosis?
Used to assess status of a newborn. What does each letter stand for?
What is APGAR? Appearance. Pulse. Grimace. Activity. Respirations.
An infection of the soft tissue above the level of the vocal cords.
What is Epiglottitis?
This device bypasses the nose and mouth through a surgical hole.
What is a tracheostomy tube?
Imcomplete closure of the spinal column.
What is Spina Bifida
Inflammation of the lung causing incresed mucus production and pulmonary secretions, usually by viral, bacterial, or fungal causes.
What is Pnuemonia?
Used to troubleshoot acute deterioration of a patient with a tracheostomy tube. What does each letter stand for?
What is DOPE? Dislodged/displaced/damaged. Obstruction. Pnuemothorax. Equipment failure.
Characterized by tonic-clonic activity, caused by a rapid increase of temperature.
What is a febrile seizure?
This device is placed in the vena cava for long term use.
Poor posture, uncontrolled movements of the limbs, seizures, hearing impairments, difficulty communicating.
What are signs of Cerebral Palsy?
Forward curvature of the spine.
What is Kyphosis?
What is the GEMS diamond?
Mother younger than 20, mother smoked during pregnancy, low birth weight.
What are risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)?
This device has a continuous blood flow, a constant humming sound should be heard during auscultation, and you may not feel a pulse.
A genetic disorder caused when abnormal cell division results in extra genetic material from chromosome 21.
What is Down Syndrome?
Hyperglycemia occuring in type 2 diabetes that does not create ketones, leads to osmotic diuresis resulting in dehyration.
What is Hyperosmolar Hyperglycemic Nonketonic Syndrome (HHNS)?
A legal document usually granted to a patient who has been determined terminally ill.
What is a DNR?
Name 2 differences in the pediatric respiratory system.
What is a less rigid, narrower, more anterior trachea; a larger tongue; a floppier, U-shaped epiglottis?