Instructions: This week, cardiac and pulmonic conditions will be assigned to you by your instructor. You are expected to present your initial topic including, but not limited to, the following items:
- Pathophysiology
- Epidemiology
- Physical exam findings
- Differential diagnoses and rationale
- Management plan to include diagnostic testing, medications if applicable, follow-up plans and referrals if needed
- Topics may include:
- Murmurs (innocent and pathologic)
- Congestive heart disease in children
- Left to right shunting: ASD, VSD
- Left to right shunting: Atrioventricular septal defect, PDA
- Right to left shunting: Transposition of the great arteries (TGA), tetralogy of fallot, hypoplastic left heart syndrome
- Hypertension in children
- Kawasaki Disease, acute rheumatic fever
- Infective endocarditis, pericarditis
- Myocarditis, cardiomyopathy
- Syncope
- Cardiac dysrhythmias
- Upper respiratory disorders: The common cold, rhinosinusitis
- Pharyngitis, tonsillitis
- Diphtheria, pertussis
- Recurrent epistaxis, nasal foreign body
- Croup, epiglottitis
- Foreign body aspiration (laryngeal, tracheal, bronchial)
- Nonbacterial and bacterial pneumonia
- Cystic fibrosis
- Pectus deformity