HP: Pediatric Physical Exam Questions

H&P: Pediatric Physical Exam Questions

and Verified Answers, 100% Score Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) definition of a neonate/newborn, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescent? - Correct Answers ✅neonate/newborn = birth - 28 days infancy = 1st yr of life early childhood = 1-4 y.o.middle childhood = 5-10 y.o.adolescent = 11-20 y.o.Approach to examining a child? - Correct Answers ✅1.observe

• keep child on parent's lap
• use your "tools" as toys (i.e. tongue depressor, reflex

hammer, light)

• involve the parent and child
• least intrusive things first (heart & lungs, extremities,

anterior fontanel)

• ENT & painful areas last esp. in younger kids

**always adapt your sequence as necessary** Measurements taken on a child? - Correct Answers ✅1.length (if < 2 y.o.)

• height (if > 2 y.o.) 1 / 3

H&P: Pediatric Physical Exam Questions

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• weight
• head circumference ( if < 3 y.o.)
• BMI (if > 2 y.o.)

(underweight is < 5%, normal is 5-84%, overweight is 85- 94%, obese is > = 95%) At what age does pulse and respiratory rate coordinate with adult normal values? - Correct Answers ✅15 Vital signs on a child? - Correct Answers ✅1. BP (annually starting @ age 3) 2.pulse (up to 6 y.o. pulse is > 100 bpm, 6-10 y.o. is ~95 bpm)

3. RR

(tachypnea is > 60/min from birth-2 mo, > 50/min 2-12 mo, > 40/min > 12 mo) *measure for an entire minute* 4.temperature (fever >=100.4 F, rectal temp for infants preferred) 2 / 3

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and Verified Answers, 100% Score Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) newborn behaviors - Correct Answers ✅1. sleep *20min - 4 hrs at a time *16-17 hrs/day *@~ 3 mo. capable of sleeping 6-8 hr/night *regular sleep habits @ ~6 mos

• eating

*need to be fed qfew hrs

• crying

*sign that something is wrong *PURPLE crying occurs from 2wks - 3 to 4 mos.infant head exam - Correct Answers ✅1. head shape & size (microcephaly, macrocephaly, plagiocephaly)

• palpate fontanelles & sutures

(fontanelles, craniosynostosis, craniotabes)

• abnormal facies

(micrognathia) Macrocephaly (definition, causes)? - Correct Answers ✅- circumference of head > 2 SD

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