PEDIATRICS FULL MIDTERM EXAM. SAMPLE EXAM REVISION PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS (2024 UPDATE)
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Course
Nursing Pediatrics
Institution
Nursing Pediatrics
Common radiographic sign found with Scheuermann's Disease? - ANSWER- Schmorl's
Nodules (sch goes with sch).
What is percentage of sports related injuries in children thought to be due to overuse? - ANSWER-
More than 50%.
Statement most accurate in regards to a nonstructural curve? - ANSWER- No...
Common radiographic sign found with Scheuermann's Disease? - ANSWER- Schmorl's
Nodules (sch goes with sch).
What is percentage of sports related injuries in children thought to be due to overuse? - ANSWER-
More than 50%.
Statement most accurate in regards to a nonstructural curve? - ANSWER- Nonstructural curve
is most often caused by a shortened lower extremity.
Medical community considers one to have a leg length discrepancy at how many cm? - ANSWER-
2.5 cm = 'medical' LLD.
NOT a cause for acute limping in children 0-5 years of age? - ANSWER- NOT: Legg Calve
Perthes Disease.
Causes of acute limping 0-5 y/o include: occult fx, osteomyelitis, and transient synovitis.
Sport having highest rate of injuries in males per 1000 hours of exposure. - ANSWER- Soccer.
Condition that does NOT result in leg length discrepancy? - ANSWER- DMD does NOT lead
to LLD.
Conditions that DO lead to LLD: proximal focal femoral deficiency, congenital coxa vara, fibular
hemimelia.
, Accurately describe torsional deformities of lower extremities in children: - ANSWER- less
than 1% of femoral and tibial torsional deformities fail to resolve. (yay!).
What structure develops from somites? - ANSWER- skeletal muscle.
Accurate statement regarding Gower's sign: - ANSWER- child uses their hands on their knees
to help get up from the floor.
Accurate statement regarding spinal growth: - ANSWER- Spinal growth occurs rapidly during
the adolescent growth spurt.
NOT an appropriate treatment for Blount's Disease? - ANSWER- NOT: Orthotic bracing with
KAFO in a 13-year-old patient.
Appropriate treatments for Blount's Dxs include: lateral hemi-epiphyseodesis for various
deformity in 4-year-old, lateral growth modulation plating for various deformity in 8-year-old,
opening wedge osteotomy to medial proximal tibia in 16 year old.
Type of patient with physical disability most likely to participate in sports? - ANSWER- Lower
extremity amputees
What is included in the subtype of Muscular Torticollis (MT)? - ANSWER- tightness, but NO
palpable mass within SCM
Most accurate in regard to infantile idiopathic scoliosis? - ANSWER- Most curves are to the
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