Congenital Heart Defects
Patent Ductus Arteriosus is a congenital heart defect that produces a cyanotic or acyanotic defect?
Acyanotic
With Imminent Respiratory Arrest, this type of heart rate can be anticipated
Bradycardia
What are 3 important interventions for someone in sickle cell crisis?
Oxygen
Fluid Administration
Management of Pain
What is one of the main symptoms of a patient with nephrotic syndrome?
Facial Edema
How often do you want to encourage the parents to check their Type 1 DM child's urine for ketones on "sick days"
Every 2-4 hours
With aortic stenosis, we can anticipate finding what 3 clinical manifestations or assessment?
Hypotension, weak pulses, and murmur
Epistaxis most commonly occurs from what nasal landmark?
Kiesselbach Plexis
What are 2 types of microcytic anemia
Iron Deficiency Anemia
Thalassemia
What is one thing you want to avoid in your physical assessment for a pediatric patient with a diagnosed Wilm's Tumor?
Palpating the abdomen
If a child is not diagnosed and treatment is delayed with congenital hypothyroidism, this can result.
Irreversible Intellectual Disability
With an ASD or VSD what direction does the blood shunt?
Left to right shunting
Post T&A, what is the one thing the RN should have on her priority list when she sees the patient has frequent swallowing?
Bleeding
What are two types of Macrocytic Anemia?
B12
Folate Deficiency Anemia
A patient has complaints of stools mixed with blood and mucus. The nurse is able to palpate a mass in the upper right quadrant. What differential should be on the top of the nurse's list for disease diagnosis
Intussusception
When we see that a pediatric patient is falling off the growth chart, one of the top differentials we need to keep in mind is that they may be deficient in what?
Growth Hormone
What are the 4 defects of Tetralogy of Fallot?
Pulmonary Stenosis
Overriding Aorta
Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD)
Right ventricular hypertrophy
This respiratory disease has lower incidence since the HIB vaccine was produced?
Epiglottitis
Sickle Cell Disease is what kind of genetic factor/trait?
Autosomal Recessive
What 3 symptoms do we see consistent with GERD in a pediatric patient?
Vomiting
Weight Loss
Wheezing
This is commonly found in obesity and those with diabetes. It is brown-to-black, poorly defined, velvety hyperpigmentation of the skin usually around the neck area
Acanthosis Nigracans
Name the congenital heart defects associated with increased pulmonary blood flow?
Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)
Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD)
Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA)
We understand that a patient with a CFTR mutation is at risk for what?
Cystic Fibrosis
What are 3 things that can trigger sickle cell crisis?
Stress
Infection
Cold Exposure
Decreased Oxygen
Dehydration
What disease process do we consider when a parent tells us that their infant "projectile vomits" after feedings?
Pyloric Stenosis
The nurse educates the parents on the importance of continuing insulin administration during sick days, even if the child isn't eating while sick. The parents question the reasoning behind this. What is the nurse's best response?
Even though the child is not taking in food that contains glucose, the body still needs glucose to function. If intake of foods is not meeting the body's demand for glucose needed for metabolism, it will begin to make the glucose from protein and fat stores.