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20 Cards in this Set
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Know the meaning, uses, and limitations of bone age
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Measurement
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Recognize the types of anthropometric measurements used in assessing
nutritional status and their value |
Measurement
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Be familiar with techniques to obtain accurate measurements of growth
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Measurement
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Know that height doubles by 3 to 4 years of age
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Linear growth and weight gain
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Distinguish between normal growth and abnormal growth by
evaluating plots on a growth chart |
Linear growth and weight gain
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Know that most full-term infants will regain their birth
weight within two weeks |
Growth velocity
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Know that full-term infants will double their birth weight
in five or six months |
Growth velocity
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Know that full-term infants will triple their birth weight
by 1 year of age |
Growth velocity
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Know that the cause of failure to thrive is nonorganic in the
majority of patients |
Failure to thrive
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Understand that extensive laboratory evaluation of failure
to thrive should be deferred until out-patient dietary management has been tried |
Failure to thrive
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Recognize the observational clues to nonorganic failure
to thrive:eg, mother-infant interaction |
Failure to thrive
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Recognize poor feeding technique as a cause of failure to
thrive |
Failure to thrive
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Distinguish between nonorganic failure to thrive and organic causes of growth deficiency
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Failure to thrive
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Recognize the benefit of hospitalization in treating failure to
thrive |
Failure to thrive
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Know that formula preparation is a major factor in infant under-
nutrition Recognize that inadequate intake is the most common cause of failure to thrive Recognize the long-term consequences of failure to thrive in infancy |
Failure to thrive
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Know that failure to thrive may be an expression of parental neglect/
inadequacy |
failure to thrive
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Formulate the differential diagnosis for an infant with failure to
thrive |
failure to thrive
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Know the normal head circumference of a full-term infant at birth |
Head growth
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Recognize the growth pattern of acquired microcephaly
Distinguish between hydrocephaly and macrocephaly |
Head growth
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lan appropriate evaluation of an infant with physiologic breast
hypertrophy |
Breast hypertrophy
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