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2024/2025
Risk factors related to elevated cholesterol?
· Obesity
· Diabetes
· Hypertension
· Family history:
o Coronary heart disease prior to age 55
o Hyperlipidemia
o Diabetes
Most common cyanotic cardiac lesion (disorder)
Tetralogy of Fallot
What is Tetralogy of Fallot?
a congenital heart condition involving four abnormalities occurring together:
1) Pulmonary valve stenosis
2) RT vent hypertrophy
3)Vent septum Defect
4)Aorta overrides Vent Septum
What would be seen on X-ray with TOF
Boot shaped heart and Rt vent hypertrophy
What are the common s/s of tetralogy of Fallot?
*Cyanosis (hypoxia)
*SOB w/exercise
*clubbing fingers and toes
*delayed growth
*systolic and holosystolic murmurs
, What criteria would you have to consider inpatient admission in a patient with
pneumonia
Comorbidities: lung dz, congenital Heart dz, DM, grunting child, O2 <92%
What to expect of a 2-mo old visual acuity?
*Vision of 20/400
*Can fix and follow objects
S/S of viral conjunctivitis
*Starts bilaterally
*usually occurs with upper resp tract infection (adenovirus)
*serous(watery) drainage
*injected conjunctiva
*Enlarged or tender preauricular nodes
Clinical findings of of viral conjunctivitis
*Normal visual acuity
*injected conjunctiva
*Preauricular lymphadenopathy
Treatment of viral conjunctivitis
* Symptomatic only
* Warm or Cool compresses
* Strict eye/hand hygiene
* avoid contacts for a while
What do you do for a patient with an elevated B/P on initial visit?
*Repeat in 1-2 weeks and average over 3 visits
*Pt to keep log for review
*Encourage healthy lifestyle choices
Asthma is disruptive several times during the night/interrupting sleep at least 3
times a week, what's the next step?
Moderate persistant; prescribe inhaled steroid (flovent)
Causative organism of bronchiolitis
(RSV) Respiratory syncytial virus most likely cause