What is the maintenance fluid requirement of a 14 Kg 2 year-old child?
What is 48 ml/hour.
100
What is the estimated blood volume of a 15 Kg 2 year old child?
What is 1050 ml.
100
What are two sites for monitoring core temperature in children that are associated with minimal or no morbidity?
What is the esophagus (distal third) and the bladder.
200
What is a large-bore intravenous catheter for a 3.5 Kg newborn?
What is a 22 gauge catheter.
200
What is the maximum allowable blood loss (MABL) of a 15 Kg 2 year-old child with a preoperative hematocrit of 36 (assuming that the patient would tolerate an hematocrit of 24)?
What is 350 ml.
200
In addition to their large body surface area-to-volume ratio, why are infants at increased risk for becoming hypothermic under anesthesia?
What is their thin insulating tissue layer.
300
What is the fluid deficit of a 10 Kg patients who has been NPO for 6 hours in preparation for an elective circumcision?
What is 240 ml.
300
What volume (ml/Kg) of packed red blood cells should be administered to increase hemoglobin by 2 g/dL?
What is 10 ml/Kg.
300
What are the most effective devices to maintain the temperature and increase the temperature of cold children.
What is convective forced-air warmers.
400
In otherwise healthy pediatric patients, drinking clear liquids is allowed until ....
What is 2 hours prior to surgery.
400
What volume of platelets should be administered to increase platelet count by 50,000?
What is 5 ml/Kg.
400
How does hypothermia affect the coagulation cascade?
What is platelet dysfunction and prolonged PT/PTT.
500
Should intravenous hyperalimentation solutions be discontinued during surgery?
What is no.
500
In cases of massive blood transfusions, coagulopathy secondary to thrombocytopenia should be suspected after how much blood lost?
What is 1.0 to 1.5 blood volume.
500
The head of newborns represents which proportion of the total body surface area?