Cardiac
What is the priority assessment prior to giving a child digoxin?
Jill has a platelet count of 10000. Your priority as a nurse is to observe for what?
For a child with hemophilia What is the most important nursing goal?
Prevent bleeding episode
this cyanotic heart defect causes a machine-like murmur and can be treated with indomethacin
What is Patent Ductus arterioles
Name one of the abnormal changes in the heart structure in Tetralogy of Fallot
Stenosis of Pulmonary Vein
Hypertrophy of right ventricle
Dextropostion of the aorta
Ventricular septal defect
What is the most common bone cancer in children?
What is Osteo Sarcoma
What is name two possible complications of sickle cell disease?
Acute Chest
Stroke
Pain
Organ damage
In this condition the aorta and pulmonary artery are switched
TGA
What is the position a child with a "tet spell" will sit in to improve oxygenation?
What is Knee to chest
What is the definitive test for a diagnosis of Leukemia?
What is a bone marrow aspiration
What is your priority nursing intervention when a sickle cell patient enters your ED booth with a high fever?
what is put an IV in get blood cultures and get orders for antibiotics after culture
This describes the direction of untreated blood flow in ASD
left to right shunting
What is usually the cause of Rheumatic Fever?
Group B Strep (sore throat)
What is the most common malignancy in infants?
What is a Neuroblastoma
What can low iron in babies lead to ? ( symptoms)
What is Impaired cognitive development , slower language development, learning disabilities , cognitive issues.
Infants with this heart defect have bounding pulses
What is a PDA
What is the main concern with Kawasaki syndrome?
Acquired Heart disease
What is the most common tumor of the renal system?
What is Wilms tumor
What is how fast does the red blood cell die in sickle cell patients?
What is 10-20 days (sometimes even shorter) Healthy person lives about 120 day.s
this single ventricle defect often requires a staged surgical approach ( Norwood Glenn Fontan)
what is HLHS ( hypoplastic left heart syndrome)