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Peds Unit 6 info
Blood, Circulatory, Resp Disorders
Question | Answer |
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Cardiomyopathy | abnormalities del heart that interfere with its ability to contract effectively |
Cardiomyopathy s/s | feeding difficulties, cyanosis, pallor, rapid resp/p, fatigue, excessive sweat |
Cardiomyopathy Tx (Digoxin) | Hold <100 Newborn, <70 older child |
Rheumatic fever | Autoimmune (inflammatory disease) . scarring mitral valve. ages 5-15. |
Rheumatic fever occurs when | 2-6 weeks post un/ partially treated URI |
Rheumatic fever s/s | fever, tachy, nodules nontender, lg polyarthritic joints w/ painful swell, rash , irritability, purposeless muscle movements, Chorea |
Polyarthritis | inflammation of the joints. (hips, knee, shoulder, wrist) Disappear w/ tx and come back |
Erythema Marginatum | skin eruptions. rash seen in Rheumatic fever appear on trunk /abd |
Sydenham's Chorea | CNS disorder. Involuntary purposeless muslce movements. |
When is Sydenham's Chorea mainly seen | In pre-puberty girls |
Rheumatic Carditis | lesions that occur on the myocardium. Mitral valve stenosed. Seen young children. |
Diagnoses with Jones criteria | 2 major and 1 minor or reverse.... following actue infection |
Major Criteria | carditis, sub-q nodules, polyarthritis, chorea, rash |
Minor criteria | fever, arthralgia |