Sepsis
Number of SIRS criteria needed for Sepsis Diagnosis in the presence of known or suspected infection. Name them
What is two?
What are temperature below 96.8 F or above 101 F, HR>90 BPM, respiratory rate >20 or PaCO2 <32 mm Hg; leukopenia <4,000 or leukocytosis >12,000?
Tool to assess the BSA burn damage on a patients body
What is the "Rules of Nines"?
Quick assessment of an infant's immediate response to extrauterine life. Provide the specific assessments.
What is an APGAR score?
What is A-appearance (color); P-pulse (heart rate); G-grimace (reflex irritability); A-activity (muscle tone); R-respiratory effort (respirations)?
Newborn reflexes - name at least 5
What are rooting, grasp (palmar/plantar), Moro (startle), Babinski, tonic neck, and stepping?
When organogenesis occurs
What is the first 8 weeks of pregnancy?
The time frame to administer Antibiotics when there is a high suspicion for Sepsis
What is within 60 minutes?
The four important functions of the skin.
What is to maintain fluid & electrolyte balance, help with T-cell production, barrier protection for underlying tissues, and a sensory organ?
Vessels in the umbilical cord and function.
What are two arteries and one vein? What is the arteries function to remove waste/byproducts from the fetus to the placenta and the vein functions to carry oxygen and nutrients to the fetus?
Acronym CCHD and explain the procedure and "pass" or negative screen
What is Critical Congenital Heart Disease? What is measuring the pulse oximetry on the right upper extremity and right lower extremity simultaneously? What is at least one of the results is > or = 95% and the difference between the two limbs is < or = 3%?
Name at least 5 functions of amniotic fluid
What are: allows the fetus to float freely which promotes symmetrical growth and muscular/skeletal development, prevents amnion member from attaching to the fetus, absorbs external shock, protects the umbilical cord from compression, maintains a thermal environment, provides fluid for the fetus, and enhances fetal lung development?
A Sepsis Bundle include these four items:
What is...
-Initial Lactic Acid level
-Obtain Cultures (blood, urine, sputum, wounds)
-Administer Antibiotics as ordered
-Administer IV Fluids?
Types of burns
What are electrical burns, thermal burns, radiation burns, and chemical burns?
Blue extremities in a newborn. True or false, it is a normal finding.
What is acrocyanosis? What is true?
SGA and LGA
What is small for gestational age and what is large for gestational age?
"Dirty Duncan" and "Shiny Shultze"
What are the nicknames for the maternal (Dirty Duncan) and fetal (Shiny Shultze) surfaces of the placenta?
The initial minimal IV fluid bolus in the event of hypotension (SBP<90) in a Sepsis patient.
What is 30 ml/kg of crystalloid/colloid equivalent?
Additional injuries you may encounter in the presence of thermal burns, name at least 3.
What is smoke inhalation, wheezing, dyspnea, mucus with soot, red & irritated eyes, cough, hoarseness, tachypnea, or soot around the nostrils?
Substernal retractions, flaring nares, grunting and tachypnea
What is respiratory distress?
Infants at risk for hypoglycemia
Who are SGA infants, LGA infants, infants of diabetic mothers, and premature infants?
Using Nagel's Rule, LMP May 28 2025, determine the EDD
What is March 7 2026?
Medication given when a patient with sepsis does not respond and continues to have hypotension (SBP<90) after fluid resuscitation and goal of treatment.
What are vasopressors? What is maintain MAP > or = 65?
Parkland formula for fluid resuscitation in burn victims
What is V (fluid volume)= total body surface area of burn (%) X weight (kg) X 4 ml (typically Lactated Ringer's) with half given in the first 8 hours, and the rest are given over the next 16 hours?
a- Diamond shaped depression on infant's head
b- Triangular shaped depression on infant's head
a- What is anterior fontanel?
b- What is the posterior fontanel?
Name 3 neurologic congenital anomalies:
What are spina bifida, meningocele, and meningomyocele?
Name at least 4 related birth defects with FAS (fetal alcohol syndrome)
What are: growth restriction, mental retardation, facial characteristic changes, decreased fine motor skills, speech and language difficulties, CNS dysfunction?