Lung Language
How the respiratory rate is measured in newborns and infants.
What is by auscultation over one minute.
Important step to do before assessing the child and/or doing skills and interventions.
What is preparing the child?
Preferred route to administer fluids when child is severely dehydrated.
What is intravenously (IV)?
This piece of equipment is used in paediatric hospitals to reduce fall risk and ensure safe sleep and mobility for infants and young children.
What is a crib?
Prefered route to verify the temperature of children under 12 years of age.
What is rectal?
Two aspects that are assessed during lung auscultation.
What are breath sounds and adventitious sounds?
Important step to do during examination and/or at the end of procedures.
What is praise or congratulate the child?
Equivalence of 1 g of urine in mL.
What is 1 mL?
When IV access is no longer required, this intervention should be used to maintain patency while reducing infection risk.
What is NS lock?
Most important factor in accurately measuring BP.
What is finding the appropriate cuff size?
First sign of hypoxia
What is altered level of consciousness (irritability, inconsolability, tiredness, sleepiness)?
What is sitting on the parent's lap?
Procedure to measure tube length for paediatric NG tube insertion.
What is nose–ear–midxiphoid umbilicus?
When a peripheral IV is actively infusing in a paediatric patient, this is the minimum frequency at which the site must be assessed.
What is every hour?
These soft spots on an infant’s skull are assessed for size and tenseness.
What are fontanels?
Two areas where retractions can be seen in children.
What are nasal flaring, suprasternal/tracheal tugging, intercostal, subcostal, substernal retractions? (accept 2)
The exceptions when doing head to toe assessments on a child.
What is alter the sequence to accommodate age-related needs, painful areas to assess last, examine vital functions first during emergency situations? (accept 1)
Recommendation to promote hydration in a breastfed and congested child.
What is offer the breast every 3 hours?
This developmental screening tool assesses personal-social, fine motor, gross motor, and language milestones in children from birth to 6 years.
What is the Denver II?
This vital sign is most affected by fever and crying in children.
What is heart rate?
This anatomical characteristic explains why infants can quickly develop respiratory distress when their nose is congested.
What are obligate nose breathers?
Two strategies if the child is not ready to interact.
What are talk to the parent first, make complimentary remarks about the child (appearance, dress, toy), tell a funny story or perform a magic trick, use props? (accept 2)
Three examples of dehydration signs in children.
What are delayed cap refill, tenting skin turgor, dry mouth, absence of tears, sunken fontanel, decreased energy, decreased or absent U/O, tachycardia? (accept 3)
This normal developmental response typically appears around 6–8 months of age and may cause an infant or toddler to cry or cling when approached by unfamiliar people.
What is stranger anxiety?
This rapid, visual assessment tool evaluates appearance, work of breathing, and circulation to the skin and is completed in under 60 seconds.
What is the Paediatric Assessment Triangle?