Additional Revision Facts Flashcards
Lithium in Pregnancy?
- Advise to stop upon becoming pregnant- Taper down over 4w- This does not prevent adverse effects.
- Discuss switching to an antipsychotic if needed (Much safer for baby).
- If lithium is continued, use as low dose as possible and drink lots of water.
- STOP lithium in labour- Cannot breastfeed baby.
Corrected age of child development is counted back from 40 weeks!
E.g., social smile is normally @6w. A 32w gestation baby will therefor show a smile 14w after birth, on average.
After 2y old, this calculation is discarded.
1st for Panic: SSRI
2nd: TCA
Abortive: Benzos
Raised AFP
NTD
Abdominal Wall Defect
Patau’s (Cleft Palate)
Multiple Pregnancy (Raised everything).
Nitrofurantoin in 3rd trimester
Haemolysis of newborn
Potter’s Syndrome
Sequence of events in foetus: Kidney issue > Oligohydramnios > Pulmonary Hypolasia / Clubbed feet.
If contraceptives are started in <5 days from period, they are all IMMEDIATELY effective.
Does beg the question about short cycles though- Say you had a 23 day cycle, that would imply you ovulate on day 9- which gives the COCP only 4 days to work if you took it on day 5.
Perthe’s disease causes sclerosis of the epitheses and resorption of the femoral head.
So don’t confuse it with SUFE just because it says “Epitheses”.
Fredrich-Waterhouse
Meningitis > Bilateral Adrenal Haemorrhage. (Salt wasting).
Go over alpha thalassaemias.
12 year olds should have vitals similar to adults
So a bp of 90/70 is bad.
Pregnancy DVT - LMWH - Monitor with Anti-Xa.
Umbilical fundal height at 20w
HepB safe for Breastfeeding.
Dilation of eye = SURGICAL cause of 3rd nerve compression: CT head.
Nexplanon implant is affected by enzyme inducers (Like rifampicin)
Low yield BUT; Thumb opposition is Median (The prominence) and Thumb Adduction is Ulnar.
Neonatal Death: First 4w.
Puerperal Death: Maternal Death in First 6w.
Terbutaline = Tocolytic
B-2 agonist, also used in asthma sometimes. It has tocolytic effects by causing smooth muscle relaxation.
5years after breast-cancer cured: Return to normal screening (/3y)
Apparently there are 5 (not 4) types of lacunar stroke:
- Sensory pure
- Motor pure
- SensoryMotor
- Ataxic hemi
- Dysarthria + Clumsy-Hand.
Acute mania: Olanzapine.
.1, .2, .3
5, 10, 15
Also good to note: Don’t subtract SHOCK boluses from deficit calculations (Think about shock boluses as correcting intraVASCULAR deficit, and the other bolus as correcting intraCELLULAR deficit)
<7.1 , <7.2, <7.3 pH
<5, <10, <15 HCO3
= Severe, Mod, Mild Metabolic Acidosis (/DKA).
Then K+ = 40mmol/L
Learn the MUST questionnaire.