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Most common post op complication of tonsillectomy? ✔✔hemorrhage
Risk time for hemorrhage after tonsillectomy? ✔✔10 days to 2 weeks post op
Signs and symptoms of hemorrh
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Pediatrics Final/ATI Latest 2022 Already
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Most common post op complication of tonsillectomy? ✔✔hemorrhage
Risk time for hemorrhage after tonsillectomy? ✔✔10 days to 2 weeks post op
Signs and symptoms of hemorrhage after tonsillectomy? ✔✔restlessness, swallowing frequently,
low BP (late sign)
How should child lay post op to prevent hemorrhage from tonsillectomy? ✔✔side lying or on
abdomen
What should the child avoid after a tonsillectomy post op? ✔✔coughing or blowing nose
How should xrays be taken to see the section of the lung behind the heart (lingual)? ✔✔Laterally
Why are lateral xrays needed to view the lingual area? ✔✔a common site for pneumonia
If a child is "barking" and has hoarseness and inspiratory stridor what might they have? ✔✔croup
What does inspiratory stridor sound like? ✔✔a gasp
If stridor reduces in a child previously showing stridor, what can that mean? ✔✔blockage and
imminent respiratory failure
Do not put anything in the __________ of a child with acute epiglottitis. ✔✔Mouth
Acute LTB ✔✔Croup symptoms, Inflammation mucosa lining larynx & trachea causing
narrowing airway-subglottic area narrowest part causes respiratory acidosis
Diagnosis of Asthma is ✔✔peak expiratory flow (PEF)
Treatment of Asthma is ✔✔beta agonists such as albuterol to relieve bronchospasms
Preventing chronic problems with Asthma treatment ✔✔anti-inflamatories such as corticosteroids
treatment for an emergency with Asthma attack ✔✔repeat dose q15min twice, on 3rd dose call
ambulance
Parents need education about beta agonists, what should a nurse advise? ✔✔don't give them
around the clock, they should be prn, do not abuse
Common side effects of beta agonists ✔✔nervousness, tachycardia
What is Cystic Fibrosis? ✔✔Sludge, or increased viscosity of mucous, a build up of thick, sticky
mucus in the lungs
What diet should a patient with cystic fibrosis eat? ✔✔high protein, high calorie
Signs and symptoms of Increased Intracranial pressure ✔✔High pitched cry, difficult to soothe,
tense and bulging fontanels, cranial sutures separated, setting sun eyes, distended scalp veins,
headache, vomiting, seizures, diplopia, irritability/restlessness, drowsiness, indifference, decrease
in physical activity & motor skills, complaints of fatigue, somnolence, weight loss
Late signs of increased ICP ✔✔decreased LOC, decreased motor response to command, decreased
sensory response to painful stimuli, loss of PERRLA, palliledema
Decorticate positioning ✔✔all flexed
Decorticate positioning is a dysfunction of what? ✔✔cerebral cortex
decerebrate positioning ✔✔all extended
Decerebrate positioning is a dysfunction of what? ✔✔mid brain
Cushing's reflex ✔✔Reflex due to cerebral ischemia that causes an increase in blood pressure,
decrease in pulse rate, and changes in breathing patterns.
What is Myelomeningocele? ✔✔the most common form of spina bifida in which the bones of the
spine do not completely form, resulting in an incomplete spinal canal, causing the spinal cord and
meninges to stick out of the childs back
What should be done for Myelomeningocele? ✔✔4x4 soaked in normal saline placed over "sac",
normal saline drip over 4x4 to prevent rupture until surgery
Main prevention for Spina Bifida (Myelomeningocele)? ✔✔Folic acid early in pregnancy
Diagnostic indication for Neuroblastoma is? ✔✔High catecholamines in 24 hour urine collection
Neuroblastoma ✔✔Malignant childhood tumor originating in cells of the nervous system.
Retinoblastoma ✔✔tumor arising from a developing retinal cell (a congenital, malignant tumor)
Leukokoria ✔✔aka cat's eye reflex; yellowish white reflex seen in the pupil because of a
Retinoblastoma tumor behind the lens
Bacterial Meningitis ✔✔Inflammation of the me
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