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26th DAY OF PEDIATRICS | clinical tutorial

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PHYSICS

1o Incident

Term infant, 6 weeks old,BG 3.6 kg, no audible murmur at birth, 3/6 holosystolic murmur at the top of the heart , femoral normal, 55 breaths/minute, 160 beats/minute, BG 4.2 kg, slight feeding fatigue, not breastfed.



1.1 What will be your next move?(Required)
1.2 What is the most likely diagnosis?(Required)

2o Incident

Term infant , 8 weeks old for the first vaccine, BW 3 kg, syndromic features, 2/6 systolic extrathoracic murmur, audible from birth in the second intercostal space on the left, femoral cfs, 40 breaths/minute, 120 bpm, BG 5 kg, SatO2 99%



2.1 What will be your next move?(Required)
2.2 What is the most likely diagnosis?(Required)

3o Incident

Premature neonate, birth 2/6 continuous murmur, normal femoral arteries, BP 2 KG, 3 days old, no continuous murmur, difficulty palpating femoral arteries, SatO2 88%



3.1 What will be your next move?(Required)
3.2 What is the most likely diagnosis?(Required)

4o Incident

9 year old boy, fever, feeling fatigued during exercise with a history of asthma, A/E : 1/6 systolic murmur and 2/4 diastolic murmur in the right second intercostal space, normal femoral arteries, BP 110/65 mm Hg, SatO2 :100%, 120 beats/minute.



4.1 What will be your next move?(Required)
4.2 What is the most likely diagnosis?(Required)

5o Incident

4 year old girl, fever and cough, tachycardia, 170 beats/minute, mild tachypnea on fever, A/E :2/6 systolic murmur audible throughout the precordium, femoral palpable emphysema, SatO2: 99%.



5.1 What will be your next move?(Required)
5.2 What is the most likely diagnosis?(Required)

THORAKIKO ALGOS

6.1 In a child with fainting, which of the following characteristics requires immediate referral for hospitalisation?(Required)
6.2 What is the most common cause of chest pain in children?(Required)

APPLICATIONS

1o Incident

During a scheduled visit to the pediatrician in a 3-year-old child, an irregular heartbeat is detected.



7.1 Which of the following possible causes needs no treatment (except confirmation by electrocardiogram)(Required)
7.2 What laboratory tests will you request to investigate a heart rhythm disorder?(Required)
7.3 In which of the following situations is sporting activity NOT prohibited?(Required)

2o Incident

A mother is calling you because her 50-day-old baby girl: she has been restless for two days, eating 60 grams of milk instead of the 120 she used to drink and today she seems lethargic.



8.1 What are you thinking of doing?(Required)
8.2 You bring the child to the clinic. You find that he has a "sickly appearance": (he is pale, has tachypnea, tachycardia and sluggishness). You immediately take him to the hospital on call. At triage: temperature: 36,5o C, oxygen saturation (SaO2)=98%Breaths: 60/min, pulse: 250/min, absence of heartbeat(Required)
What are the next immediate actions?
8.3 After reduction to sinus rhythm: on clinical reassessment the infant remains hepatomegaly despite a reduction in the number of heartbeats and on cardiac auscultation the calpathic rhythm remains without a heart murmur.(Required)
What is the possible diagnosis?

3o Incident

A 7-month-old infant is brought to the hospital due to: - Tachycardia, arrhythmia - Easy fatigue/sweating during feeding in the last period of time - Tachycardia and hypotension during the last few days: Respiratory infection two months ago.



9.1 What is the most likely diagnosis?(Required)
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