Dentistry and Oral Health
Oral Examination Print Section Listen Important and regular part of anticipatory and preventive care Position: Child in the caregiver’s lap straddling and facing the caregiver with the examiner’s knees touching…
PEDIATRICS
Assessment of Nutrition and Growth
Charts of Body Mass Index for Age Print Section Listen Body mass index (BMI) is calculated as follows: BMI = (Weight in kg)/(Height in m)2 BMI is an effective screening…
Clinical Pearls for the Wards
Orders Print Section Listen Admission Orders (ADC VANDALISM) Admit to: Floor, service, MD Diagnoses (prioritized) Condition: Good, fair, poor, guarded, critical Vitals and monitoring: Frequency of monitoring (eg,, q4, q…
Neonatal and Pediatric Nutrition
Vitamin and Mineral Supplementation in Term and Preterm Neonates Print Section Listen | Download (.pdf) | Print Feeding Regimen Recommended Supplementation Preterm Infants Human milk fortified with HMF BW <2500…
Allergy and Immunology
Gell and Coombs Classification of Hypersensitivity Immune Responses Print Section Listen | Download (.pdf) | Print Type Mechanism Examples I: Anaphylactic or immediate hypersensitivity IgE-mediated mast cell degranulation and activation…
Adolescent Medicine
Adolescent Health Screening and Supervision Print Section Listen Adolescent Assessment Structure of Interview: Do an initial assessment with the parent and adolescent, focusing on chief complaint and history. Then speak…
Analgesia and Sedation
Definition of Pain Print Section Listen As defined by International Association for the Study of Pain: “An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or…
Miscellaneous Anomalies
Aplasia Cutis Congenita Print Section Listen Figure 30-1 Aplasia cutis congenita This not uncommon disorder is characterized by congenital localized areas of missing skin. These may present as ulcers, or…
Disorders of Nails and Hair
Clubbed Nails Print Section Listen Figure 29-1 Clubbed nails Increased curvature of the nail plate may be due to a wide variety of causes. In this patient, the large, convex…
Benign and Malignant Pigmented Lesions
Ephelis Print Section Listen Figure 26-1 Ephelis This is the learned word for a freckle. The plural is ephelides (pronounced ĕf-ĕl-ĩ-dēz). These brown macules are exceedingly common on the face…
