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Pediatric Emergency Medicine

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1. Sodium Bicarbonate
Has alpha and beta-adrenergic effects. Used to treat pulseless VT/VF - asystole - bradycardia - and shock.
Increases the blood pH. Used to treat refractory metabolic acidosis - hyperkalemia - and sodium channel blocker (ex. tricyclic antidepressant) overdose.
Blocks open sodium channels and prolongs the action potential. Prolongs refractory period of atria and ventricles and decreases conduction. Used to treat SVT - stable VT with pulses.
Neurosurgery if trauma. Give mannitol.

2. What must you do before sending fracture to radiology?
Poisoning causes bradycardia - hypotension - decreased respiratory rate - pinpoint pupils - somnolence - and coma.
Immobilize with plaster slab
Antidotes are atropine sulfate and pralidoxime chloride.
Its done with polyethylene glycol. Indicated in iron - delayed preparations and slow release.

3. Opiates
Flumazenil
Stomach pumping.
Poisoning causes bradycardia - hypotension - decreased respiratory rate - pinpoint pupils - somnolence - and coma.
Immobilize with plaster slab

4. Mx of snake bit
Wrap upwards (even though some venom seap up still more painful and lasts longer) Premedicate w/ adrenaline. We give specifically both brown and tigersnake antivenom in victoria. Other states need to use polyvalent because other species too.
Can cause electrolysis corrosion. Perforate esophageus or cause oesaphageal tracheal fistula. Endoscopy
Competitive antagonist of mACh receptors. Used to treat bradycardia and AV nodal block.
Cyanosis and irregular respiratory effort

5. Iron
Antidote is deferoxamine chelation. Charcoal is ineffective.
Digoxin Fab
1) CXR 2) measure oxygenation. May get convulsion vomitting hepatorenal toxicity
Poisoning causes salivation - lacrimation - urination - defecation - gastric cramping - emesis - small but reactive pupils - sweating - muscle fasciculations - confusion - and coma.

6. When and how would you do whole bowel irrigation?
Its done with polyethylene glycol. Indicated in iron - delayed preparations and slow release.
Poisoning causes lethargy - CNS depression - N/V - ataxia - respiratory depression - hypotension - hypothermia - and coma. Laboratory studies show hypoglycemia - hypokalemia - elevated anion gap metabolic acidosis.
It can be biphasic. You treat them - they get better - then a few hours later it HAPPENS AGAIN! Within 48 hours. So give 3 day coUse of pred - ranitidine -
Nausea vomiting and anorexia.

7. What is the general management of poisoning?
ABC - drugs - drawbloods and decontamination. Conscious and serious: 1) nasogastric charcoal or lavage. 2 Bowel irrigation + charcoal. 3) Tracheal intubation.
Poisoning causes irritability - apathy - hyperactivity - abdominal pain - constipation - behavioral problems - developmental delay - and acute encephalopathy.
Abdo XRAY!!!! do it!
Retinal haemorrhages in unexplained headinjury.Must be assessed by opthalmologist. Do coagulation as this can manifest as bruising.

8. What is an important point to note about anaphylaxis?
It can be biphasic. You treat them - they get better - then a few hours later it HAPPENS AGAIN! Within 48 hours. So give 3 day coUse of pred - ranitidine -
Persitantly angry. Anxiously attached or ambivalent towards parents. Limited ability to enjoy things. Low self esteem - depressed or unresponsive. Poor social skills and developmental inhibition.
Give IM adrenaline - steroids - salbutamol - antihistamine.
Digoxin Fab

9. You must consider abuse in
Poisoning causes nausea - vomiting - anorexia. Serum levels elevated 4-24 hours after ingestion. Late elevation of heaptic transaminases and PT.
Blocks fast sodium channels - decreases ventricular automaticity and surpresses ventricular arrhythmias. Used to treat pulseless VT/VF - VT with pulses.
6 month old rolled from coach to carpet (not developed enough). Have you been particularly stressed and shaken or rough handled your child lately.
Severe illness - past history of injuries - 18 months or less - inconstent story.

10. Epinephrine
Has alpha and beta-adrenergic effects. Used to treat pulseless VT/VF - asystole - bradycardia - and shock.
Class of medications encompassing atropine - scopolamine - first-generation antihistamines - and tricyclic antidepressants.
Aspiration Pneumonia
Can cause electrolysis corrosion. Perforate esophageus or cause oesaphageal tracheal fistula. Endoscopy

11. Signs of psychological maltreatment?
Flurescence in ultraviolet light.
Before a child can be examined for child abuse - a parent or legal guardian must give consent
Retinal haemorrhages in unexplained headinjury.Must be assessed by opthalmologist. Do coagulation as this can manifest as bruising.
Persitantly angry. Anxiously attached or ambivalent towards parents. Limited ability to enjoy things. Low self esteem - depressed or unresponsive. Poor social skills and developmental inhibition.

12. what makes you suspicious of non-accidental injury.
1) Mechanical ventilation 2) Stomach decompression 3) Saline and dopamine 4) cerebral oedema w/ mannitol 5) monitor for hypokaelamia (common) 6) give benpen if ventilation required to prevent pneumoccal pneumonia complication. Induce controlled hypot
Less than one year and femur fracture. Spiral fractures in a non-ambulatory child
Antidote is deferoxamine chelation. Charcoal is ineffective.
Laboratory indices of poisoning include metabolic acidosis with normal PaO2 - myoglobinuria on urine dipstick - and increased blood carboxyhemoglobin.

13. Salicylates
Normally treated with sling alone. Seek advice.
Antidotes are atropine sulfate and pralidoxime chloride.
Poisoning causes hyperpnea and tachypnea - mixed respiratory alkalosis and metabolic acidosis - fever - N/V - dehydration - tinnitus - agitation - and seizures. Lab studies show hyperglycemia - hypokalemia - prolonged PT/PTT.
Ceftriaxone

14. What is the most important treatment for anaphylaxis
ABC - drugs - drawbloods and decontamination. Conscious and serious: 1) nasogastric charcoal or lavage. 2 Bowel irrigation + charcoal. 3) Tracheal intubation.
Treats hypocalcemia - hyperkalemia - hypermagnesemia - and calcium channel blocker overdose.
1) sodium bicarbonate 2) hyperventilation 3) diazepam (anticonvuslant) 4) antidysrhytmia (phenytoin)
IM adrenaline: vasopressor and bronchodilator.

15. OSCE: what must you say you would do if someone is poisoned?

16. Atropine
Class of medications encompassing atropine - scopolamine - first-generation antihistamines - and tricyclic antidepressants.
Competitive antagonist of mACh receptors. Used to treat bradycardia and AV nodal block.
Bone scan for occult fracture
Neurosurgery if trauma. Give mannitol.

17. What are the three features of anaphylaxis
Persitantly angry. Anxiously attached or ambivalent towards parents. Limited ability to enjoy things. Low self esteem - depressed or unresponsive. Poor social skills and developmental inhibition.
Hypotension - bronchospasma and upper airway obstruction becasue of oedema
CHARCOAL! except for lithium - iron - alcohol - lead.
Skin or vascular compromise

18. Sympathomimetics
6 month old rolled from coach to carpet (not developed enough). Have you been particularly stressed and shaken or rough handled your child lately.
Less than one year and femur fracture. Spiral fractures in a non-ambulatory child
Class of drugs encompassing decongestants - amphetamines - cocaine.
Antidote is naloxone.

19. Amiodarone
Blocks Na - K - Ca channels and beta-receptors in the myocardium. Also blocks alpha and beta-receptors in the periphery. Slows AV conduction and ventricular conduction. Used to treat hemodynamically stable VT - refractory VF - pulseless VT - and SVT.
Physostigmine may be used as an antidote. Other treatments include gastric emptying - activated charcoal - whole-bowel irrigation - seizure control - and benzodiazepines for agitation.
Poisoning causes decreased cholinesterase activity.
Give IM adrenaline - steroids - salbutamol - antihistamine.

20. Organophosphates antidotes
Give IM adrenaline - steroids - salbutamol - antihistamine.
6 month old rolled from coach to carpet (not developed enough). Have you been particularly stressed and shaken or rough handled your child lately.
It can cause fatal bronchioloitis obliterans
Antidotes are atropine sulfate and pralidoxime chloride.

21. Middle Clavicle fracture management?
Sling for 2-3 weeks. Lump up to one year. No sport for 6 weeks. No xray review.
Poisoning causes anticholinergic effects as well as prolonged PR interval - widened QRS complex - QT prolongation - and AV block due to blockage of sodium channels. Hypotension. Pulmonary oedema
Cultures but don't delay treat with flucloxacillin IV and cefotaxime IV. Give oxygen and Dopamine. Don't do lumbar puncture until child stabilized.
Poisoning causes salivation - lacrimation - urination - defecation - gastric cramping - emesis - small but reactive pupils - sweating - muscle fasciculations - confusion - and coma.

22. Methanol
Poisoning causes N/V - inebriation - increase in minute ventilation to offset increased anion gap metabolic acidosis - blurred vision/optic disc edema starting 18-24 hours after ingestion.
Poisoning causes N/V - anorexia - stomach pain - GI bleeding - mental status changes/coma/seizures if massive ingestion. Lab studies will show elevated serum levels 4 hours after ingestion - along with elevated transaminases - elevated alkaline phosp
Immobilize with plaster slab
Bone scan for occult fracture

23. What is one of the technicalities of childabuse.
Nebulized adrenaline and Dexamethasone. Children admitted to a general medical ward should NOT be administer O2 as it masks their true stats.
Flurescence in ultraviolet light.
1) CXR 2) measure oxygenation. May get convulsion vomitting hepatorenal toxicity
Before a child can be examined for child abuse - a parent or legal guardian must give consent

24. Anticholinergics
Treats hypocalcemia - hyperkalemia - hypermagnesemia - and calcium channel blocker overdose.
Antidote is deferoxamine chelation. Charcoal is ineffective.
Poisoning causes irritability - apathy - hyperactivity - abdominal pain - constipation - behavioral problems - developmental delay - and acute encephalopathy.
Class of medications encompassing atropine - scopolamine - first-generation antihistamines - and tricyclic antidepressants.

25. Undisplaced surgical neck of humerous?
Sling for 3 weeks - fracture clinic at 7 days.
Flumazenil
Ceftriaxone
Gastric lavage as charcoal doesn't work. (everyone gets stomach pumped)

26. Oedema causing laryngeal obstruction?
CHARCOAL! except for lithium - iron - alcohol - lead.
Wrap upwards (even though some venom seap up still more painful and lasts longer) Premedicate w/ adrenaline. We give specifically both brown and tigersnake antivenom in victoria. Other states need to use polyvalent because other species too.
Gastric lavage as charcoal doesn't work. (everyone gets stomach pumped)
Intubate - tracheostromy or nebulized adrenaline.

27. What are the special features that must be done to correct haemorrhagic shock.
1) WARM the blood. 2) monitor serum calcium - potasium - acid base and coagulation in massive transfusion.
Antidote is naloxone.
Calcium chloride
Instructions on plaster care - analgesia for home. Greensticks by GP - all others at fracture clinic.

28. What investigations should you do in suspected child abuse
It can cause fatal bronchioloitis obliterans
Gastric lavage as charcoal doesn't work. (everyone gets stomach pumped)
Bone scan for occult fracture
Aspiration pneumonia even if intubated.

29. Carbon monoxide
Class of medications encompassing atropine - scopolamine - first-generation antihistamines - and tricyclic antidepressants.
Instructions on plaster care - analgesia for home. Greensticks by GP - all others at fracture clinic.
Poisoning causes lethargy - irritability - confusion - dizziness - headache - nausea - irregular breathing - cyanosis - progression to coma/death.
Blood glucose level for hypoglycaemia!!

30. Carbon monoxide
Poisoning causes bradycardia - hypotension - decreased respiratory rate - pinpoint pupils - somnolence - and coma.
Severe illness - past history of injuries - 18 months or less - inconstent story.
Laboratory indices of poisoning include metabolic acidosis with normal PaO2 - myoglobinuria on urine dipstick - and increased blood carboxyhemoglobin.
Poisoning treated with 100% oxygen - or hyperbaric 100% oxygen if poisoning is severe.

31. Ibuprofen
Can cause electrolysis corrosion. Perforate esophageus or cause oesaphageal tracheal fistula. Endoscopy
Notify if abuse CONSIDERED. CONSIDERED.
IM adrenaline: vasopressor and bronchodilator.
Poisoning causes N/V - anorexia - stomach pain - GI bleeding - mental status changes/coma/seizures if massive ingestion. Lab studies will show elevated serum levels 4 hours after ingestion - along with elevated transaminases - elevated alkaline phosp

32. Mx severe croup
Instructions on plaster care - analgesia for home. Greensticks by GP - all others at fracture clinic.
Gastric lavage as charcoal doesn't work. (everyone gets stomach pumped)
Antidote is naloxone.
Nebulized adrenaline and Dexamethasone. Children admitted to a general medical ward should NOT be administer O2 as it masks their true stats.

33. What are the other treatments for anaphylaxis?
Persitantly angry. Anxiously attached or ambivalent towards parents. Limited ability to enjoy things. Low self esteem - depressed or unresponsive. Poor social skills and developmental inhibition.
Give IM adrenaline - steroids - salbutamol - antihistamine.
Sling for 2-3 weeks. Lump up to one year. No sport for 6 weeks. No xray review.
Treats hypocalcemia - hyperkalemia - hypermagnesemia - and calcium channel blocker overdose.

34. Amphetamine antidote
Nebulized adrenaline and Dexamethasone. Children admitted to a general medical ward should NOT be administer O2 as it masks their true stats.
Antidotes are atropine sulfate and pralidoxime chloride.
Digoxin Fab
Esmolol

35. How may you detect semen?
Poisoning causes lethargy - irritability - confusion - dizziness - headache - nausea - irregular breathing - cyanosis - progression to coma/death.
Flurescence in ultraviolet light.
Persitantly angry. Anxiously attached or ambivalent towards parents. Limited ability to enjoy things. Low self esteem - depressed or unresponsive. Poor social skills and developmental inhibition.
Abdo XRAY!!!! do it!

36. Iron
IM adrenaline: vasopressor and bronchodilator.
Persitantly angry. Anxiously attached or ambivalent towards parents. Limited ability to enjoy things. Low self esteem - depressed or unresponsive. Poor social skills and developmental inhibition.
Skin or vascular compromise
Poisoning causes N/V - diarrhea - GI bleeding - acute liver failure - seizures - shock - and coma. Lab studies show elevated serum levels 3-5 hours after ingestion - metabolic acidosis - hyperglycemia - increased bilirubin and LFTs - prolonged PT - i

37. Mx raised intracranial pressure.
1) WARM the blood. 2) monitor serum calcium - potasium - acid base and coagulation in massive transfusion.
Glucagon prefered - otherwise massive dose of adrenaline.
Poisoning causes anorexia - vomiting - lethargy - respiratory/CV collapse. Lab studes show metabolic acidosis with elevated anion gap - elevated serum ammonia - hypocalcemia - kidney failure - and calcium oxalate crystals on urinalysis.
Neurosurgery if trauma. Give mannitol.

38. Tricyclic antidepressants overdose
1) sodium bicarbonate 2) hyperventilation 3) diazepam (anticonvuslant) 4) antidysrhytmia (phenytoin)
Calcium chloride
Normally treated with sling alone. Seek advice.
The most common accident in children in from car crashes 50% always make sure your child has an approptiate seat beat - that they are not sitting in the front seat before 12 and that if possible the car has airbags for the child. Always supervise chi

39. What evidence should a doctor give about parental neglect
Objective signs of growth - tidiness - weight -
Class of drugs encompassing decongestants - amphetamines - cocaine.
1) CXR 2) measure oxygenation. May get convulsion vomitting hepatorenal toxicity
Abdo XRAY!!!! do it!

40. Which is better - activated charcoal or gastric lavage.
Less than one year and femur fracture. Spiral fractures in a non-ambulatory child
CHARCOAL! except for lithium - iron - alcohol - lead.
Poisoning causes hyperpnea and tachypnea - mixed respiratory alkalosis and metabolic acidosis - fever - N/V - dehydration - tinnitus - agitation - and seizures. Lab studies show hyperglycemia - hypokalemia - prolonged PT/PTT.
Neurosurgery if trauma. Give mannitol.

41. Ethylene glycol
ABC - drugs - drawbloods and decontamination. Conscious and serious: 1) nasogastric charcoal or lavage. 2 Bowel irrigation + charcoal. 3) Tracheal intubation.
Poisoning causes anorexia - vomiting - lethargy - respiratory/CV collapse. Lab studes show metabolic acidosis with elevated anion gap - elevated serum ammonia - hypocalcemia - kidney failure - and calcium oxalate crystals on urinalysis.
Treats hypocalcemia - hyperkalemia - hypermagnesemia - and calcium channel blocker overdose.
Competitive antagonist of mACh receptors. Used to treat bradycardia and AV nodal block.

42. Displaced surgical neck of humerous
Normally treated with sling alone. Seek advice.
Antidotes are atropine sulfate and pralidoxime chloride.
Glucagon prefered - otherwise massive dose of adrenaline.
The antidote is N-acetylcysteine. Gastric emptying (within 1 hour of ingestion) and activated charcoal administration (within 4 hours of ingestion) may also help.

43. What else is in the management of snake bite?
Give steroids for management of serum sickness. Must do coagulation screen!!!
Bone scan for occult fracture
Poisoning causes anticholinergic effects as well as prolonged PR interval - widened QRS complex - QT prolongation - and AV block due to blockage of sodium channels. Hypotension. Pulmonary oedema
1) Mechanical ventilation 2) Stomach decompression 3) Saline and dopamine 4) cerebral oedema w/ mannitol 5) monitor for hypokaelamia (common) 6) give benpen if ventilation required to prevent pneumoccal pneumonia complication. Induce controlled hypot

44. A child has swallowed a battery. Mx
Immobilize with plaster slab
Treatment includes ethanol to block metabolism - sodium bicarbonate to correct metabolic acidosis - and folate to hasten metabolite elimination.
Can cause electrolysis corrosion. Perforate esophageus or cause oesaphageal tracheal fistula. Endoscopy
Poisoning causes lethargy - irritability - confusion - dizziness - headache - nausea - irregular breathing - cyanosis - progression to coma/death.

45. Carbon monoxide
Hypotension - bronchospasma and upper airway obstruction becasue of oedema
Poisoning treated with 100% oxygen - or hyperbaric 100% oxygen if poisoning is severe.
Poisoning causes N/V - diarrhea - GI bleeding - acute liver failure - seizures - shock - and coma. Lab studies show elevated serum levels 3-5 hours after ingestion - metabolic acidosis - hyperglycemia - increased bilirubin and LFTs - prolonged PT - i
It can cause fatal bronchioloitis obliterans

46. OSCE: how can i prevent accidents in my children
It can be biphasic. You treat them - they get better - then a few hours later it HAPPENS AGAIN! Within 48 hours. So give 3 day coUse of pred - ranitidine -
The most common accident in children in from car crashes 50% always make sure your child has an approptiate seat beat - that they are not sitting in the front seat before 12 and that if possible the car has airbags for the child. Always supervise chi
Poisoning causes tachycardia - hypertension - fever - large but reactive pupils - sweating - agitation - psychosis - and seizures. Lab studies show hyperglycemia - hypokalemia - EKG changes.
Nausea vomiting and anorexia.

47. What is the antibiotic for Epiglottitis?
Poisoning causes irritability - apathy - hyperactivity - abdominal pain - constipation - behavioral problems - developmental delay - and acute encephalopathy.
Ceftriaxone
Class of drugs encompassing decongestants - amphetamines - cocaine.
Poisoning treated with 100% oxygen - or hyperbaric 100% oxygen if poisoning is severe.

48. Benzodiazepine overdose antidote
Flumazenil
Wrap upwards (even though some venom seap up still more painful and lasts longer) Premedicate w/ adrenaline. We give specifically both brown and tigersnake antivenom in victoria. Other states need to use polyvalent because other species too.
Flurescence in ultraviolet light.
Blocks Na - K - Ca channels and beta-receptors in the myocardium. Also blocks alpha and beta-receptors in the periphery. Slows AV conduction and ventricular conduction. Used to treat hemodynamically stable VT - refractory VF - pulseless VT - and SVT.

49. When is reduction required in fracture?
Salbutamol. Methylprednisalone. Nebulized ipratropium. Aminophyline. Mgs04.
Blocks Na - K - Ca channels and beta-receptors in the myocardium. Also blocks alpha and beta-receptors in the periphery. Slows AV conduction and ventricular conduction. Used to treat hemodynamically stable VT - refractory VF - pulseless VT - and SVT.
Causes temporary atrioventricular node conduction block and interrupts re-entry circuits. Used to treat hemodynamically stable SVTs.
Skin or vascular compromise

50. Indications of non-accidental injury
Physostigmine may be used as an antidote. Other treatments include gastric emptying - activated charcoal - whole-bowel irrigation - seizure control - and benzodiazepines for agitation.
Munchausen's by proxy
Chelation with EDTA or oral succimer should be initiated in children with a serum lead level greater than ___ ug/dL. With levels greater than ___ ug/dL - intramuscular dimercaprol should be added - and the child should be admitted for inpatient treat
Retinal haemorrhages in unexplained headinjury.Must be assessed by opthalmologist. Do coagulation as this can manifest as bruising.