Tiny Humans, Big Milestones
According to the AAP, routine autism-specific screening should first be performed at this age during well-child visits.
What is 18 months?
Your 27 kg patient just ate a peanut and is experiencing throat closure and hives. Your attending yells for you to grab this dose of this life-saving medication.
What is 2.7 mg of epinephrine?
Power and Pollution in Pediatric Lung Health: Using Partnerships to Address Environmental Social Justice
Who is Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir?
"currant jelly stool"
What is intussusception?
Our APD who is a neonatologist has this many kid(s).
What is 3?
Most children reach the fine motor milestone of copying a circle by this age.
What is 3 years old?
Your 37 kg pediatric patient needs maintenance IV fluids. Using the Holliday-Segar method, you calculate the hourly maintenance fluids rate for this patient.
What is 77ml/hr?
DNA, DSAs, and Dominos: Innovation and Collaboration in Pediatric Heart Transplantation
Who is Marc Richmond?
"absent thymic shadow"
What is DiGeorge?
This U.S. state is where our program director tied the knot.
What is Arizona?
Name these 3 primitive reflexes that disappear by 3-4 months of age.
What is rooting, sucking and stepping?
Your patient with HbSS is experiencing chest pain, fever, and has a pulmonary infiltrate on X-ray. Your attending asks for the dosing of this antibiotic on day 1 versus days 2–5 of illness.
What is 10mg/kg azithromycin on the first day, 5mg /kg on days 2-5
When to Pick Your (Patient’s) Nose: Intranasal Analgesics & Sedatives in Children
Who is Daniel (Dan) Tsze?
"delayed separation of the umbilical cord"
What is leukocyte adhesion deficiency?
This APD held dual board certification in both Emergency Medicine and General Pediatrics.
Who is Mariellen Lane?
This is the most common type of craniosynostosis.
What is scaphocephaly (aka dolichocephaly)?
Premature closure of the midline sagittal suture and characterized by a long, narrow skill.
A newborn is evaluated at 1 minute: heart rate 80, weak cry, some flexion of arms and legs, grimaces when stimulated, has slow breathing, and has a pinkbody with blue extremities. Your team calculates this standard newborn score.
What is 5?
(APGAR Score)
Improving Outcomes for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Who is Lewis Silverman?
"infantile spasms and ash leaf spots"
What is tuberous sclerosis?
This APD has never ridden a bicycle.
Who is Shoshana Friedman?
By this age, a child’s birth length has typically tripled.
What is 13 years old?
A 4-year-old with asthma is examined on rounds: respiratory rate 36, moderate retractions, speaking in single words, and a biphasic wheeze. Based on these findings, your resident calculates this Pediatric Asthma Severity (PARS) score.
What is 8?
(PARS)
No Straight Lines: Reflections on Building an Academic Career in Pediatric Cardiology
Who is Kanwal Farooqi?
"cold abscesses, retained primary teeth"
What is Hyper IgE syndrome/ Job's syndrome?
This APD does not know how to swim.
Who is Cece Johnson?