FNPIII Midterm Peds Review

Gowers sign is when a child using the arms to push off from bent knees and gradually climbing the body and straightening up which is common in children with muscular dystrophy.

1.  A high-pitched cry may indicate increased ICP.

2.  "Mewing" in cri du chat syndrome

3.   Hoarsness in hypothryroidism

• Brudzinski sign
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• Brudzinski sign
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• Kernigs Sign:
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Rett syndrome is a genetic disease that arrests certain areas of the brain.  Typically, the patient is female, onset at 5 to 18 months.  Affected girls ceased again developmental milestones.

The term sugar policy is used to designate a mixed group of motor disorders caused by static injury to developing brains.

This is a chronic nonprogressive disorder the degree of disability can vary from person to person.

CP was once believed to be caused only by birth complications studies show that most children CP were born at term without complications.

Klumpke palsy is a paralyzed hand and forearm with good shoulder and elbow function.  

Resulting from lower cervical nerve root, during birth.

Erb-Duchenne Palsy - waiters tip positioning of the arm (shoulder adduction and internal rotation with wrist flexion).

Due to trauma during birth of the upper cervical nerve roots.

Landry ascending paralysis.  A paralysis that usually follows a nonspecific viral infection, Guillain-Barre is a poly neuropathy that mainly affects motor nerves.

Macrocephaly is defined as head circumference more than 2 standard deviations above the mean for age and sex or one that is increasing to rapidly.

Reye Syndrome is an encephalopthy process associated with influenz A and B.  

Is a systemic disorder of mitochondrial function occurring during or after a viral infection and more often with the use of salicylates.