MEDI7212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 88: Birth Weight, Hypoventilation, Recovery Position
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Causes of injury: paediatric ed presentation, main. Children 1-4yo: drowning (75% bathtubs, thermal injuries, drowning (60% swimming pool, thermal injuries, unintentional poisoning. Children 10-14yo: unintentional transport injury, assault falls. Young adult 18-24yo: unintentional transport injury, assault, trauma. Fall from playground equipment, suffer sporting or playground accident. Green (can leave hospital) vs red (treat immediately) Listen for abnormal audible airway sounds (snoring, hoarse speech, grunting, wheezing) Triage: assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients/ casualties, triage categories. 120min: recognition of seriously ill child = save a child. Child: history and exam, cry, heat, dehydration. Airway: assess, airway is patent and able to be maintained with positioning and suction. Insert airway adjunct (op or np airway, lma) to maintain patent airway or perform ett if airway patency cannot be maintained: appropriate size of adjunct: inner diameter (mm) = (age in years/4) +
