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Pediatric Primitive Reflexes - Maneuver and Ages

Palmar Grasp Reflex
 - Place your fingers into the baby's
- Maneuver and Ages ... holding jaw over shoulder ... Timeline #Pediatrics #Peds ... #Diagnosis #Neurology ... #PhysicalExam
Causes of Apparent Life Threatening Event (ALTE) - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Cardiac:
 • Congenital Heart Disease
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Breath-holding spell (age-dependent ... Gastroesophageal Reflux ... Choking Spell Injury ... #Algorithm #Causes ... #Peds #Pediatrics
The Neurological Evaluation of a Comatose Patient

Definition:
 • Coma: a state of unresponsiveness; the absence of
Differential Diagnosis ... Awareness • Injury ... • Gag reflex ... Casey Albin MD @ ... caseyalbin #PhysicalExam
Relative Afferent Pupillary Defect

This maneuver of intermittent light stimulus is called the alternating light test or
the pupillary reflex ... very sensitive diagnostic ... regarding the cause ... afferent pathway injury ... Defect #Neurology #Clinical
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Causes of Secondary Hypertension - Workup and Differential Diagnosis
Approach (when evaluation should be done):
1. Severe or
and Differential Diagnosis ... when evaluation should ... or acute kidney injury ... before puberty. ... 109 mm Hg) with clinical
Efforts to standardize the approach to trauma have led to an algorithmic, thoughtless approach to trauma
have led to an algorithmic ... In critically injured ... fantastically useful test ... diagnostic step ... Trauma #BigTrauma #BeforeCT
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
- Differential Diagnosis ... What we should be ... liver or renal injury ... tests before beginning ... gluconeogenesis Liver Injury
Evaluation of suspected incomplete Kawasaki Disease

1. AHA consensus recommendations
2. Infants ≤6 months old on day ≥7
other explanation should ... if they have no clinical ... dL, anemia for age ... Can treat before ... #Diagnosis #Peds
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
peaks between the ages ... Transverse Myelitis - Clinical ... Presentation: Injury ... Spasticity - Reflexes ... negative, MOG-IgG test
Newborn Infant - Routine Examination

Birthweight, gestational age and birthweight percentile are noted.
General observation Of the baby's
Birthweight, gestational age ... When the diagnosis ... This reflex is not ... Newborn #Infant #PhysicalExam ... #Examination #Peds