NEUROLOGY
This part of the brain controls balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
This is a chart that doctors use to track a child’s growth in height and weight compared to other children the same age.
What is a growth chart?
This organ is responsible for pumping blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
This is the main purpose of anesthesia during surgery.
What is to prevent pain and keep the patient comfortable or unconscious?
This is one lifestyle habit that increases the risk of cancer (other than smoking).
What is Excessive sun exposure?
This is the largest part of the brain, responsible for higher thinking and voluntary actions.
What is the cerebrum?
This is the most common chronic childhood disease, characterized by airway inflammation and episodes of wheezing and shortness of breath.
What is asthma?
This is the medical term for high blood pressure.
What is hypertension?
This reflex must be completely absent before a patient can be safely intubated under general anesthesia.
What is the gag reflex?
These are a kind of tumors that results from uncontrolled cell growth.
What are Malignant Tumors?
This lobe of the cerebrum is primarily responsible for decision-making and voluntary movement.
What is the frontal lobe?
At what age do most babies start to sit without support?
Around 6 months?
This is the medical term for an irregular heartbeat or abnormal heart rhythm.
What is an arrhythmia?
This is the term for maintaining normal body temperature during surgery to prevent complications from getting too cold.
What is thermoregulation?
Can chemotherapy affect healthy cells?
YES
This chemical messenger is released at synapses to transmit signals between neurons.
What is a neurotransmitter?
This condition in newborns causes yellowing of the skin and eyes due to a buildup of bilirubin.
What is neonatal jaundice?
This device can deliver an electric shock to restore a normal heart rhythm in someone with cardiac arrest.
What is a defibrillator?
This is the name of the flexible tube placed in a patient’s airway to help them breathe under general anesthesia.
What is an endotracheal tube?
This is the term used to describe how cancer spreads from the original site to other parts of the body.
What does it mean when cancer metastasizes?
This neurological disorder is characterized by the loss of dopamine-producing neurons in the substantia nigra, leading to tremors and difficulty with movement.
What is Parkinson’s disease?
This is an inherited disorder that causes thick, sticky mucus in the lungs and digestive system, often diagnosed in childhood.
What is cystic fibrosis?
This is a serious condition that occurs when blood flow to part of the heart is blocked, causing damage to heart muscle.
What is a myocardial infarction (heart attack)?
This is the name of the stage when anesthesia is slowly decreased, and the patient begins to wake up after surgery.
What is emergence?
Explain how immune checkpoint inhibitors work in cancer treatment.
The immune system uses proteins called checkpoints to control the strength and duration of an immune response, preventing it from harming healthy tissues. These act as "breaks" on the immune system.