Ages & Stages
Between ages 12 and 18
What is Adolescents?
Wong-Baker Faces
What is a type of Pain rating scale?
Geriatric patients, Environmental assessment. Medical Assessment. Social assessment
What are the parts of the GEMS diamond?
ineffective cough, inability to sleep or cry, increasing respiratory difficulty, stridor, cyanosis, loss of consciousness
What are signs of severe airway obstruction
Atypical injury, inconsistent story, delay in care, multiple injuries in various stages of healing
Signs of abuse
The first year of life.
What is infancy?
Tenting, sunken fontanelles,
What are signs of dehydration?
comfort care that recognizes death is a normal part of life.
What is pallative care?
inflamesd, swollen bronchioles that that produce excessive mucus
What is asthma?
Brain damage caused by hard shake of an infant or young child
shaken baby syndrome
Between ages 3 and 6 years.
What is preschool-age?
Appearance, Work of Breathing, Circulation to skin
What is the Pediatric Assessment Triangle?
Color-coded tool that can estimate height and weight in pediatric patients
What is a broselow tape (length-based resuscitation tape)?
Coins, small toys, grapes
Objects that may cause airway obstructions
White males, 85 and older
Between ages 1 and 3 years.
What is toddler-age?
AEIOUTIPS
Used to assess mental status.
Alcohol, Epilepsy, Insulin, Overdose, Underdose, Trauma, Infection, Pyschosis, Stroke
generational concerns, communication issues, changing physiology
Barriers to care in the geriatric population
A blood clot that breaks off of a large vein that travels to the large vessels of the lung, causing obstruction of blood flow
pulmonary embolism
taking someone's SS check, taking someone's medicine, emotional manipulation
Common forms of abuse in the elderly
Someone older than 65 years.
What is geriatric?
Tone, Interactiveness, Consolability, Look or gaze, Speech or cry
What is the TICLS mnemonic used in pediatric assessment
Formula for calculating the lowest expected systolic blood pressure
70 + (2x's the childs age in years)
Low-grade fever, stridor, and seal-like bark
caregiver apathy, repeated visits to the ER, depression, caregiver does not allow pt to answer questions
Signs of elder abuse