This bacteria is the most common cause of pneumonia in babies under one month of age
What is group B strep
100
This form of Cerebral Palsy involves one arm and one leg on the same side of the body.
What is hemiplegia
100
This is the most common cause of injuries in children below age five in Tanzania
What are burns
100
This is the medical term for staring spells with blinking and lost memory of time
What are absence seizures
100
What is the very first thing you do when receiving a new born baby that is not yet breathing?
What is stimulating the child by drying them off thoroughly.
200
This is the most common cause of pneumonia in babies age 1 month to 1 year
What are viruses, like RSV
200
This is the part of the brain that is injured in a patient with spastic quadriplegia
What is the Cerebral Cortex (pyramidal tracts)
200
This is the most common cause of injuries in children in Tanzania ages 6-12
What are motor vehicle accidents
200
if you can't get any lab results, this condition should be suspected and treated in all children in status epilepticus (in addition to giving medications for the seizures)
What is hypoglycemia
200
If a child is dehydrated and severely malnourished, this is the first fluid you should offer.
What is oral Resomol (Do not start IV fluids on a child with severe malnourishment if at all possible).
300
This is the most common cause of pneumonias in children age 1 year to 5 years of age?
What are bacteria like Streptococcus Pneumoniae
300
This is the part of the brain that is effected in a child with athetoid Cerebral Palsy (abnormal movements)
What is the basal ganglia
300
This is the maneuver used to clear the airway of an older child who is choking
What is the Heimlich maneuver
300
this test is used for a definitive diagnosis of epilepsy
What is an eeg
300
this is prevented by receiving IM penicillin once a month for five years
What is rheumatic heart disease
400
This bacteria should be suspected and treated for in children with pneumonia who have Pediatric AIDS
What is PCP (pneumocystis carinii pneumonia)
400
This form of cerebral palsy affects both legs but the arms are relatively unaffected
What is diplegia
400
What condition should you suspect in a child with fast breathing, fast heart rate and cold extremities?
What is shock
400
This is the term for the state of the patient and the period of time AFTER a seizure
What is postictal
400
This is the best way to tell if you are giving an effective rescue breath to an infant or child
What is seeing the chest rise
500
What is the very FIRST thing you should check and treat in a chid with pneumonia
Oxygenation -- start oxygen
500
This treatment should be the first choice for any patient with cerebral palsy
What is physical therapy
500
This is the organ most at risk of injury in an accidental kerosene ingestion
What are the lungs
500
This is the name for the kind of seizure that starts as shaking in one limb then spreads to involve the whole body.
What is partial complex
500
This is the rate (speed) at which to provide chest compressions to a child whose heart is not beating