Pulmonary

Question 1

Most common cause of extrathoracic airway obstruction and inspiratory stridor

Answer 1

Laryngomalacia

Question 2

• Chronic stridor
• Weak cry
• Traumatic injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve

Answer 2

Vocal cord paralysis

Question 3

• Chronic stridor
• Previous endotracheal intubation
• Stridor worsens with tracheal infections
• Often requires surgical repair

Answer 3

Subglottic stenosis

Question 4

• Uncommon at birth
• Invariably associated with snoring
• Sleep related stridor

Answer 4

Adenotonsillar hypertrophy

Question 5

• Older children
• Muffled voice
• Fever
• Unilateral pharyngeal swelling

Answer 5

Peritonsillar abscess

Question 6

Most common cause of a respiratory acidosis?

Answer 6

Hypoventilation

Question 7

Most common cause of respiratory alkalosis?

Answer 7

Hypoxemia

Question 8

Most common cause of metabolic acidosis?

Answer 8

Shock

Question 9

Most common cause of metabolic alkalosis?

Answer 9

Lasix

Question 10

Abnormal sweat chloride test

Answer 10

> 60mmoles/L

Question 11

Non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema

Answer 11

ARDS - diffuse edema with normal heart size, altered alveolar-capillary permeability

Question 12

Drooling
Dysphagia
Dysphonia
Distress
Deafening (stridor)

Answer 12

= Epiglottitis

Question 13

Hypotonia + constipation

Answer 13

= infant botulism

Question 14

Weakness, wasting, absent deep tendon reflexes, tongue fasciculations

Answer 14

SMA

Question 15

Most common type of TEF

Answer 15

Esophageal atresia with distal TEF (85%)

Question 16

Treatment for pertussis

Answer 16

Erythromycin

Question 17

Most common cause of death between the ages of 1month and 1 year?

Answer 17

SIDS

Question 18

Conditions associate with CCHS

Answer 18

• Hirschsprung’s disease (16%), PHOX2b gene
• Ganglioneuroma
• Neuroblastoma
• Hypothalamic dysfunction
• Seizures