CanadiEM Podcasts: CRACKCast, ClerkCast, CarmsCast, First Year Diaries CRACKCast E172 – Gastrointestinal Disorders
Apr 26, 2018
31:44
Core questions:
- List 8 causes of neonatal jaundice and indicate whether they are conjugated or unconjugated
- List indications for work-up of a jaundiced infant
- What are RFs for hyperbilirubinemia? (8)
- What is the differential diagnosis for vomiting in a child?
- Describe the typical presentation of each of the following:
- Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
- Malrotation with midgut volvulus
- NEC
- GERD
- Intussusception
- Hirschsprung's Disease
- Meckel’s Diverticulum
- HSP
- List Xray findings for each of the following:
- Malrotation with midgut volvulus (2)
- NEC (4)
- Intussusception (5)
- Hirschsprung's Disease (2)
- Describe the conservative management of a patient with GERD.
- What is the preferred diagnostic test for diagnosis for intussusception?
- List causes of lead points in pts with intussusception.
- Describe each of the following signs on physical exam:
- Sandifer’s syndrome
- Red-currant Jelly Stools
- Dance’s Sign
- Rovsing’s sign
- Psoas Sign
- Obturator Sign
- Describe the “Rule of 2” for Meckel’s Diverticulum
- What are 3 common locations of lodging in the esophagus
- List 3 indications for FB removal from stomach. Describe the management of button battery FBs
- What is HSP? How does it typically present?
- List three complications of HSP.
- Why is appendicitis different in very young children?
- List 10 causes of pancreatitis in children
- List 10 causes of biliary tract disease in children
- List conditions associated with the development of gallstones in children.
Wisecracks.
- What are the risk factors for necrotizing enterocolitis?
- Describe the proposed pathophysiology of necrotizing enterocolitis?
- List five pathologic causes of constipation in a child.
- What is the most concerning complication of hirschsprung’s disease? How does it occur?
- What is gallbladder hydrops? What conditions is it associated with?