Cardiac and Pulmonic Pediatric Conditions
Topic 1: Cardiac and Pulmonic Pediatric Conditions
This week, cardiac and pulmonic conditions will be assigned to you by your instructor. You are expected to present your initial topic including, but not limited to, the following items:
- Pathophysiology
- Epidemiology
- Physical exam findings
- Differential diagnoses and rationale
- Management plan to include diagnostic testing, medications if applicable, follow-up plans and referrals if neededÂ
- Topics may include:
- Murmurs (innocent and pathologic)
- Congestive heart disease in children
- Left to right shunting: ASD, VSD
- Left to right shunting: Atrioventricular septal defect, PDA
- Right to left shunting: Transposition of the great arteries (TGA), tetralogy of fallot, hypoplastic left heart syndrome
- Hypertension in children
- Kawasaki Disease, acute rheumatic fever
- Infective endocarditis, pericarditis
- Myocarditis, cardiomyopathy
- Syncope
- Cardiac dysrhythmias
- Upper respiratory disorders: The common cold, rhinosinusitis
- Pharyngitis, tonsillitis
- Diphtheria, pertussis
- Recurrent epistaxis, nasal foreign body
- Croup, epiglottitis
- Foreign body aspiration (laryngeal, tracheal, bronchial)
- Nonbacterial and bacterial pneumonia
- Cystic fibrosis
- Pectus deformity
