PEDS Renal Emergencies
A sudden loss of renal function necessary to maintain normal fluid and electrolyte balance and clear metabolic waste
What is AKI (acute kidney injury)
The most common type of pediatric seizure
What are febrile seizures?
Failure to respond to verbal or physical stimulation in a manner appropriate to the child's developmental level.
What is altered mental status?
Third main form of diabetes affecting children
What is gestational diabetes?
It’s the only continent with no active volcanoes.
What is Australia?
The mainstay of treatment for nephrotic syndrome
What is corticosteroids?
Pediatric seizure type that involves sudden loss of motor tone and a sudden drop to the floor
What are atonic seizures?
A simpler and validated method to evaluate mental status in children
What is the AVPU score?
By antagonizing this hormone, Counterregulatory hormones, such as, cortisol, growth hormone and glucagon, which are elevated in DKA, further decrease glucose utilazation
What is Insulin?
A garment worn by some Muslim women to cover their hair.
What is a hijab?
Group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal infection here is the most common type of infection leading to glomerulonephritis
What is pharynx?
Laboratory value needed on all seizing or postictal patients
What is glucose?
The AVPU score of a child that withdrawals from painful stimuli
What is 8?
We define DKA with a pH less than 7.3 or a bicarbonate level less than this number
What is 15 mEq/L?
A garment worn by some Muslim women to cover their hair.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Another name for Henoch-Schonlein purpura
What is IgA vasculitis?
What is Lorazepam (Ativan)?
The nystagmus moves in this direction from a cold stimulus during caloric testing in a pediatric patient with a supratentorial lesion
What is away from?
The EKG abnormality occurs frequently in DKA and is associated with ketosis
What is Prolonged QT?
Kevin Costner starred in this 1989 film based on the novel Shoeless Joe.
What is Field of Dreams?
Found in nephrotic syndrome, but not as consistently present as proteinuria and hypoalbuminemia
What are edema and hyperlipidemia?
What is fosphenytoin, levetiracetam, phenobarbital, or valproic acid?
Prompt loss of conciousness and cheyne-stokes respirations are seen in pediatric altered mental status patients with this type of mass lesion
What is subtentorial?
The use of this as a treatment in DKA has never been shown to improve outcomes and has been associated with a four fold increase in the development of cerebral edema
What is bicarbonate?
A flag bearing a white anchor and caduceus on a blue field represents this U.S. government official.
What is the Surgeon General?