PROBLEMS IN OXYGENATION

An inherited blood disorder where red blood cells become sickle/crescent shaped

It is an invasive procedure used to identify cardiac anatomy, measure intracardiac pressures, shunts, and oxygen saturations.

A common vasculitis of childhood affecting medium and small blood vessels.

A form of acute respiratory infection that affects the lung parenchyma.

refers to infections of supraglottis, glottis, subglottis,trachea, and bronchi, characterized by barking cough

A group of hereditary bleeding disorders that result from deficiencies of specific clotting disorders

congenital heart diseases are defects in the embryological development of the heart or its major blood vessels.

• True

• False

ALL are indications of cardiac transplant, EXCEPT:

• End-stage cardiomyopathy.

• Transposition of great arteries

• Malignant arrhythmia.

• Retransplant for cardiac graft failure.

What is the pathognomoic sign of Kawasaki disease?

• strawberry tongue

• tet-spells

• abdominal pain

• cyanosis

The nurse is taking care of a child with sickle cell disease. The nurse is aware that the following problems is (are) associated with sickle cell disease, EXCEPT:

• A. Hemarthrosis.

• Aplastic crisis.

• Splenic sequestration.

• Vaso-occlusive crisis.