Tachycardia = an _______ sign of shock - Answer- Early
What is a late sign of circulatory compromise in children? - Answer- Hypotension
Children can
... [Show More] remain normotensive until about _____ percent of blood volume is lost - Answer- 25%
What are two intervention you should always be doing? - Answer- Applying oxygen
Checking bedside blood glucose
How long should the car seat be rear facing? - Answer- Until at least one year of age
_____ model parents behavior with toys - Answer- Toddlers
Age 3 to 5: - Answer- Preschoolers
Magical and it logical thinkers
Take things literally
What are common fears of the preschooler? - Answer- Pain
Darkness
Body mutilation
Being alone
Ages 5 to 11: - Answer- School age kids
Beers include separation from parents, loss of control, and physical disability
11 to 18 years old: - Answer- Body a parent is the most important thing
What is one of the critical public health issues in today society? - Answer- Childhood obesity
At how many years old can a child start using the faces pain scale? - Answer- Three years old
What is there an emphasis on during the prioritization of the patient? - Answer- Safety
I focused assessment is what type of information? - Answer- Objective
I focused history is what type of information? - Answer- Subjective
The pediatric assessment triangle a.k.a. the across the room assessment of a patient looks at what three things? - Answer- General appearance
Work of breathing
Circulation to the skin
How long should the pediatric assessment triangle take? - Answer- About 3 to 5 seconds
What does the general appearance section include: - Answer- Interaction
Muscle tone
Consolabilty
Look or gaze
Speech or cry
Work of breathing— a good indicator of oxygenation and ventilation. What should you look for in this assessment? - Answer- Abnormal airway sounds
Coughing
Abnormal positioning
Retractions/nasal flaring
Rate and depth of respirations
Circulation to the skin: - Answer- Skin reflects perfusion status
Inspect the color of central areas such as lips and mucous membranes
Assessed for pallor, molting, or cyanosis
Is the patient flushed or diaphoretic
What are the three patient categories for the pediatric assessment triangle? - Answer- Sick
Sicker
Sickest
If all three components of the PAT are stable know what will the patient be ranked as? - Answer- Sick
If there is disruption in one of the areas of the PAT what will the patient be ranked? - Answer- Sicker
If there is Disruption in two or more components of the PAT what ranking will the patient receive? - Answer- Sickest
If a patient is identified as sickest what is indicated? - Answer- Rapid resuscitation
And a child what event typically leads to a code? - Answer- Typically a respiratory event leads to a cardiac event
What is the priority with any trauma or suspected drama? - Answer- Stabilize the C-spine and stop any bleeding
What maneuver is used to open the jaw in a trauma patient? - Answer- Jaw thrust maneuver
When is the nasal pharyngeal airway indicated? - Answer- In a semi conscious or conscious patient
Where is the nasopharyngeal airway contra indicated? - Answer- In trauma patients
What type of airway should be used for a trauma patient? - Answer- Oral pharyngeal airways and be prepared for intubation with RSI if oral pharyngeal airway is unsuccessful
After you have bagged the patient, the patients oxygen saturations and respiratory effort including respiratory rate have not improved, what is your next step? - Answer- Prepare to Intubate
Less than eight intubate
When will you start CPR? - Answer- When the heart rate is less than 60 bpm and the patient is symptomatic you should start CPR
How do you calculate the normal systolic blood pressure for a child? - Answer- 90 + 2x the age in years
How to calculate minimum acceptable SBP: - Answer- 70 + 2x age in years
What are you going to use for your history during the assessment? - Answer- CIAMPEDS
What should the urinary output be for an infant? - Answer- 2 ml/ kg / hour
What should the normal urinary output be for an adolescent - Answer- 1-1.5 ml/kg / hour
What is the most common cause of arrest in pediatric patients? - Answer- Respiratory arrest
What is the second most common cause of arrest in a pediatric patient? - Answer- Shock
_____ is the inadequate delivery of oxygen and nutrients necessary for normal tissue and cellular function. It is the in balance between supply and demand at the cellular level. - Answer- Shock
Anytime a patient presents with Shock what is the first intervention that we should do? - Answer- Place them on oxygen
What happens in the body during shock? - Answer- Plasma leakage/fluid shifts. This results in puffy kids. DIC, inflammatory responses, intracellular acidosis, ards, and MODS are also seen in shock
What type of fluid should you give a patient with hypovolemic shock due to Burns? - Answer- Lactated ringer fluid replacement using the Parkland formula.
What is seen in early Shock? - Answer- In early Shock or warm Shock there is flash cab refill. Look for bounding pulses fever and flushed skin
What medication is used to correct SVT? - Answer- Adenosine
What are some different types of obstructive shock? - Answer- Pneumothorax - you will want to do needle aspiration that the second intercostal space in the midclavicular line and you want to always place a chest tube after
PDA - start this patient on prostaglandins. Do not give this patient any Motrin as it can help the PDA to close.
Tampa nod - you need to pull the fluid off surrounding the heart
PE
Congenital heart disease
What is the urine output that we I would like to maintain when a patient is in shock? - Answer- 1 mL per kilo
Monitoring should be done for a patient in shock? - Answer- Cardiac monitoring
Pulse ox
Capnography
12 lead EKG
Chest x-ray
CT for any trauma
Echo
Coags, CBC, electrolytes, type and cross, lactate, arterial blood gas, urinalysis, blood and urine culture, and always check glucose
What is the goal with septic shock? - Answer- The goal is to restore adequate perfusion
What is the rate and depth of CPR that should be administered? - Answer- The rate of CPR should be 100 to 120 compressions per minute
The death should be 1.5 to 2 inches and then 2 to 2.5 depth allow for recoil
What will you give to correct hypoglycemia and in a neonate? - Answer- Give D 10- 2cc per kilo can be given over one minute
What will you give to the patient that is two years or older with hypoglycemia? - Answer- You can give D 25. Either 2 to 4 mL per kilo can be given
What is the drug of choice for children with bradycardia? - Answer- EPI
When do you choose atropine for bradycardia and children? - Answer- When you suspect that the bradycardia is vagal in nature
What is the number one site choice for an IO? - Answer- The proximal tibia
How can you tell that an I/O is infiltrated? - Answer- I feeling underneath of the leg when flushing
How long can an I/O same place for? - Answer- For 24 hours or until you get another form of access
What are the things that you want to consider pre-intubation? - Answer- Preoxygenation
Atropine, this drug maybe used for patients less than eight years old
Prepare for any alternative things that may have to happen such as cric
Consider lido
What are the complications of intubation? - Answer- Pneumothorax
Gastric dissension
How will you confirm placement of the ET tube? - Answer- Auscultation
CO2 detector
Chest x-ray
Capnography
If an ET tube fails what are alternative airway solutions? - Answer- LMA mask
Needle cricothyrotomy
_____ A barky seal like cough, worse at night. Low-grade fever. Steeple sign is seen via x-ray. You will want to inform parents to do coolness, take the child outside or open the freezer. Steam from the shower can also help. Administer steroids for inflammation. Give her Seemic Kathy for relief up to two hours, observation is key. - Answer- Croup
We should observe a patient that received racemic epi-for at least ____ hours? - Answer- 6
______ is a true emergency! High fever. Muffled voice. Sore throat. Drooling. Stridor . This is caused by a marvelous influenza B. Often times you will see the thumb sign. For these patients you want to give blow by oxygen as tolerated. Make sure to avoid any invasive procedures until the patient is stabilized, this means no IV or throat exam until the patient's airway is stable. - Answer- Epiglottis
pneumonia: - Answer- Maybe viral, bacterial, fungal, or parasitic
Give antibiotics
Most kids are viral
Abdominal pain may be present in lower lobe pneumonia
Pertussis: - Answer- Whooping cough
Bacterial - contagious
Thank you Bashan is 7 to 10 days
Usually worse at night
Droplet cautions
Erythromycin is the anabiotic of choice
The most common cause of pediatric dysrhythmias is an unrecognized ____ or _____ - Answer- Respiratory or metabolic compromise
A child's cardiac output is how much of that of an adults - Answer- Two times that of an adults
What concentration of EPI do you use for CPR? - Answer- 1:10,000
_____ is One of the most common in infants see that can lead to cardiac compromise. Greater than 220 bpm in infants and greater than 180 bpm in children. Absent or hard to see P waves. Rapid onset - Answer- SVT
_____ What is indicated for stable SVT dosing is .1 mg per kilogram of adenosine and you want to flush it fast with a 10 mL Saline flush and using the stopcock method. - Answer- Adenosine
If SVT becomes unstable what is the method that will be used for treatment - Answer- Synchronize cardioversion. Consider sedation. 0.5 J/Kg. Make sure that machine is in synchronized mood. Refer patient to cardiology.
What should always be the first choice for stable SVT? - Answer- Vagal maneuver Aka using ice to the face blowing through an obstructed straw
V tach: - Answer- HR >120
Rapid HR with wide QRS complex
Tombstone like appearance
No p waves
Sometimes pulseless
Can Turn into v fib
V tach with a pulse: - Answer- Consult cardiology
02
EKG
Cardioversion
I am new at around 150 mcg
Pulseless V tach: - Answer- Defibrillator
V fib: - Answer- Uncommon [Show Less]