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Peds, part 45: Musculoskeletal Disorders - Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis & Osteomyelitis
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis and osteomyelitis. The cause, signs/symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and family teaching for juvenile idiopathic arthritis. The pathophysiology, risk factors, signs/symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of osteomyelitis.
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Peds, part 44: Musculoskeletal Disorders - Osteogenesis Imperfecta & Rickets
Osteogenesis Imperfecta and Rickets. The cause, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of osteogenesis imperfecta. The cause, risk factors, signs and symptoms, labs, and treatment of Rickets.
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Peds, part 43: Musculoskeletal Disorders - Legg-Calve Perthes and Clubfoot
Legg-Calve Perthes disease and clubfoot. The risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of Legg-Calve Perthes. Risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and family teaching for clubfoot.
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Peds, part 42: Musculoskeletal Disorders - Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip
Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH). What DDH is, risk factors for DDH, signs and symptoms of DDH, diagnosis of DDH, and treatment of DDH. Important information regarding a Pavlik harness.
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Peds, part 41: Musculoskeletal Disorders - Scoliosis
Scoliosis. The signs and symptoms, use of the Adam's forward bend test to screen for scoliosis, treatment of scoliosis, and nursing care following spinal surgery.
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Peds, part 40: Musculoskeletal Disorders - Positional Plagiocephaly
Pediatric musculoskeletal disorders, starting with positional plagiocephaly. What positional plagiocephaly is, symptoms of positional plagiocephaly, treatment of positional plagiocephaly, and family teaching to treat or prevent positional plagiocephaly.
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Peds, part 39: Nervous Disorders - ADHD and Autism
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and autism. The symptoms, treatment, nursing care, and family teaching for these disorders.
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Peds, part 38: Nervous Disorders - Trisomy 21, Fragile X, Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy
The following genetic disorders: Trisomy 21 (Down Syndrome), Fragile X, and Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy. The pathophysiology, risk factors, signs/symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment associated with each of these disorders.
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Peds, part 37: Nervous Disorders - Spina Bifida, Cerebral Palsy
Spina Bifida, including the following 3 types of Spina Bifida: spina bifida occulta, meningocele, and myelomeningocele. The risk factors, diagnosis, treatment, nursing care, and patient teaching associated with spina bifida. Cerebral Palsy, including the pathophysiology, signs/symptoms, and treatment of this neurological disorder.
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Peds, part 36: Nervous Disorders - Reye's Syndrome, Lead Poisoning
Reye's syndrome and Lead Poisoning. The risk factors, signs/symptoms, lab values, treatment, nursing care, and family teaching associated with these disorders.
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Peds, part 35: Nervous Disorders - Meningitis
Meningitis. The pathophysiology, risk factors, prevention, signs/symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and nursing care associated with meningitis.
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Peds, part 34: Nervous Disorders - Head Injury
Head injuries. The pathophysiology of a head injury, including the primary and secondary injury that occurs with a severe head trauma. The risk factors, signs/symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and nursing care of a patient with a head injury. Finally, key complications associated with a head injury, including: brain herniation, hemorrhage/hematoma, and hydrocephalus.
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Peds, part 33: Nervous Disorders - Seizures
Seizures. The pathophysiology and risk factors associated with seizures. The following types of seizures: tonic clonic seizure, absence seizure, myoclonic seizure, atonic seizure, and status epilepticus. The diagnosis, treatment, and nursing care of a patient during and after the seizure. Finally, febrile seizures.
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Peds, part 32: Nervous Disorders - Visual and Hearing Impairments
The following visual impairments: myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism, amblyopia, and strabismus. The signs/symptoms of vision loss, diagnostic testing for vision loss, treatment, and nursing care for patients with visual impairments. Next, hearing impairments. The difference between conductive and sensorineural hearing loss. The signs/symptoms of hearing loss in both infants and children. Finally, treatment, nursing care, and family teaching for patients with hearing impairments.
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Peds, part 31: Nervous Disorders - Conjunctivitis, Retinopathy of Prematurity
Conjunctivitis (or pink eye), including the pathophysiology, signs/symptoms, treatment, and family teaching associated with this eye disorder. Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP), including the pathophysiology, risk factors, signs/symptoms, treatment, and prevention of ROP.
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Peds, part 30: Nervous Disorders - Pediatric Nervous Diagnostic Tests - EEG, Lumbar Puncture, ICP Monitoring
The following nervous system diagnostic tests: electroencephalogram (EEG), lumbar puncture, and intracranial pressure (ICP) monitoring.
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Peds, part 29: Cardiovascular Disorders - Thalassemia, Hemophilia, Epistaxis
Thalassemia and hemophilia, including the signs/symptoms, labs, treatment, and family teaching for patients with these disorders. Epistaxis, including causes, treatment, and family teaching for patients with epistaxis.
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Peds, part 28: Cardiovascular Disorders - Iron Deficient Anemia, Sickle Cell Anemia
Iron-deficient anemia, including the pathophysiology, risk factors, signs/symptoms, labs, treatment, nursing care, and family teaching for this disorder. Sickle cell anemia, including the pathophysiology, risk factors, signs/symptoms, types of crises, diagnosis, treatment, nursing care, and family teaching for patients with this disorder.
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Peds, part 27: Cardiovascular Disorders - Kawasaki Disease
Kawasaki Disease. The pathophysiology, phases of Kawasaki disease, symptoms associated with each phase, abnormal labs present with Kawasaki disease, diagnostic criteria, treatment, nursing care, and family teaching for the disorder.
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Peds, part 26: Cardiovascular Disorders - Infective Endocarditis, Rheumatic Fever
Infective endocarditis, including the pathophysiology, signs/symptoms, labs, diagnosis, treatment, and family teaching for patients with infective endocarditis. Rheumatic fever, including the pathophysiology, risk factor, labs, diagnosis, and treatment of this condition.
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Peds, part 25: Cardiovascular Disorders - Heart Failure and Hypoxemia
Heart Failure, including the pathophysiology, signs/symptoms, labs, diagnosis, treatment, and nursing care of patients with heart failure. A detailed explanation of the differences between left and right-sided heart failure. The topic of hypoxemia, including causes, signs/symptoms, labs/diagnosis, treatment, and nursing care of this disorder.
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Peds, part 24: Cardiovascular Disorders - Congenital Heart Defects - COA, Aortic Stenosis, Pulmonary Stenosis, TGA, TAPVC, Truncus Arteriosus, HLHS
Congenital heart defects that cause obstruction of blood flow, including: coarctation of aorta (COA), aortic stenosis and pulmonary stenosis. Congenital heart defects that cause mixed blood flow, including: transposition of the great arteries (TGA), total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC), truncus arteriosus, and hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). In addition to explaining each disorder, the signs/symptoms and treatment of the defects.
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Peds, part 23: Cardiovascular Disorders - Congenital Heart Defects - ASD, VSD, AV Canal, PDA, Tetralogy of Fallot, Tricuspid Atresia
Congenital heart defects that result in increased pulmonary blood flow, including: Atrial Septal Defect (ASD), Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD), Atrioventricular (AV) Canal, and Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA). Congenital heart defects that result in decreased pulmonary blood flow, including: Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) and Tricuspid Atresia. For each of these defects, we cover the defect plus the signs/symptoms and treatment of the defect.
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Peds, part 22: Cardiovascular Disorders - Catheterization, Congenital Heart Defects
A cardiac catheterization, including nursing care of the patient before and after the procedure. Congenital Heart Defects (CHDs). The pathophysiology, risk factors, overall signs/symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and nursing care of patients with congenital heart defects.
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Peds, part 21: Respiratory Disorders - Respiratory Distress, BRUE/ALTE, SIDS
Respiratory distress and failure, including the signs/symptoms of early respiratory distress and late respiratory failure. Diagnostics, labs, and treatment of respiratory distress and failure. Next, a brief resolved unexplained event (BRUE) and apparent life-threatening event (ALTE). The signs/symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and family teaching related to these events. Finally, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), including risk factors, prevention, and nursing care for SIDS.
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Peds, part 20: Respiratory Disorders - Apnea of Prematurity, Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia, Respiratory Distress Syndrome
The following disorders: Apnea of Prematurity, Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD), and Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS). The pathophysiology, risk factors, signs/symptoms, treatment, and nursing care associated with these disorders.
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Peds, part 19: Respiratory Disorders - Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic Fibrosis. The pathophysiology, signs/symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and nursing care of patients with Cystic Fibrosis.
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Peds, part 18: Respiratory Disorders - Asthma
Asthma. The pathophysiology associated with asthma, along with asthma classifications (intermittent, mild persistent, moderate persistent, severe persistent). The risk factors, signs/symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, nursing care, and patient teaching for asthma.
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Peds, part 17: Respiratory Disorders - Pertussis, Influenza, Pneumonia
Pertussis (whooping cough), influenza, and pneumonia. The pathophysiology, prevention, signs/symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of these disorders.
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Peds, part 16: Respiratory Disorders - Epiglottitis, Croup, Bronchiolitis
Epiglottis, acute laryngotracheobronchitis (croup), and bronchiolitis (RSV). The pathophysiology, signs/symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, nursing care, and patient teaching associated with these disorders.
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Peds, part 15: Respiratory Disorders - Strep Throat, Tonsillitis
Acute streptococcal pharyngitis (strep throat), including the pathophysiology, signs/symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and family teaching for this disorder. In addition, tonsillitis. The pathophysiology, risk factors, signs/symptoms, labs/diagnosis, and treatment of tonsillitis. In addition, nursing care for a tonsillectomy and family teaching following a tonsillectomy.
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Peds, part 14: Respiratory Disorders - Introduction, Otitis Externa, Otitis Media
Coverage of Pediatric Disorders (i.e. Alterations in health), beginning with the respiratory system. Otitis externa and otitis media, including the pathophysiology, risk factors, signs/symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of these disorders.
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