Pediatric Quiz (March 2010)

Parents will know if their child has hearing loss by the time their child is 2-3 months age

Parents can identify hearing loss by clapping the hand behind the child’s head

Hearing loss identified beyond 6 months age can have speech and language delays

Children younger than 12 months can’t be fitted with hearing aids

Severe birth asphyxia

Birth wt less than 1500 gms

Family H/O deafness

TORCH infections

Cleft Palate

It can start start as early as 15 weeks of gestation

It is not harmful to teeth and jaws until eruption of permanent teeth

Only few children suck their thumbs or fingers at some time in their early life

The only time it might cause concern is if it goes on beyond 6 to 8 years of age or affects the shape of the child's mouth and the position of teeth.

The illness usually is milder in adults than in children, but the duration of the paroxysmal cough is just as long as in children

When treatment is initiated during the catarrhal stage, symptoms may be less severe

Adults and adolescents are the primary reservoir for pertussis.

It is usually diagnosed during paroxysmal stage

Treatment with an effective antibiotic doesn’t shorten the infectious period but generally alters the outcome of the disease

Most common organism is RSV

It is essentially a clinical diagnosis

Use of Dexamethasone has been proved to be much beneficial in recovery

Nebulized epinephrine results in significant clinical improvement

Oxygen is drug of choice for hypoxic child with respiratory distress

Thyroglossal Cyst

Ranula

Cystic Hygroma

Branchial Cleft Cyst

Congenital Hypothyroidism

Graves Disease

Hoshimoto’s Thyroiditis

Abnormal development of brain

Pneumionia

Rhinovirus

Adenovirus

Respiratory Syncitial Virus

MRI of head

Physiotherapist’s consultation

BERA

Test for cerebellar functions

0-1 years

0-2 years

1-10 years

0-15 years