Cancer
This is the most common type of pediatric cancer.
What is leukemia?
This is the definition of Palliative care.
What is the specialized medical care for people living with a serious illness.
In type 1 diabetes, the body does not produce this.
What is insulin?
A sudden, uncontrolled electrical disturbance in the brain.
What is a seizure?
This is an organ failure where an affected organ developed incorrectly in utero and the baby was born with an organ that does not work well.
What is congenital?
This is the second most common type of cancer in children.
What is brain tumor?
These are symptoms shown by siblings who are having trouble adjusting to their brother's or sister's death.
What are:
Irritability
Noncompliance
Fear of the dark
Separation anxiety/ clinging
Decreased interest in play or other activities
Regressive behaviors
Somatic complaints
Poor concentration
Preoccupation with death
This organ produces insulin.
What is the pancreas?
This is a trigger of an epileptic seizure.
What are:
-stress, flashing lights, drugs, alcohol, hormone changes, lack of sleep, medication changes
This is a common symptom of end of stage organ failure.
What are:
-weakness or fatigue
-loss of appetite
-nausea or vomiting
-fever, chills
This stage of a pediatric brain tumor refers to the size of the tumor.
What is the "T" stage?
This type of care is based on needs of the patient, not on the patient's prognosis.
What is palliative care?
This occurs when other cells in the body no longer respond to insulin (insulin-resistance).
What is type 2 diabetes?
This phase of a seizure can involve an aura.
What is prodromal phase?
External assault on well-formed, previously well-functioning organ, thereby causing the organ to stop working.
What is acquired?
This is an example of medical treatment for pediatric cancer.
What are:
radiation
chemotherapy
surgery
Bone marrow transplant
In the developmental understanding of death, this age of children begin to understand death as something feared by adults.
Who are preschoolers?
A blood test that measures the average blood glucose level over the past 3 months.
What HbA1c?
Abnormal electrical activity in both sides of the brain at the same time.
What is generalized seizure?
This occurs when the organ donor’s immune cells attack the child’s body tissues.
What is Graft versus Host Disease (GVHD)?
This is the cure rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
What is 92%?
In this phase of palliative care, the goal is to manage the fatal condition as best as possible.
What is end of life care?
This is a major medical complication in type 1 diabetes.
What is diabetic ketoacidosis?
This phase is known as the recovery phase after a seizure.
What is postictal phase?
This is the most common risk of mortality in organ transplant.
What is rejection of transplanted organ?