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Paediatric Endocrine Emergencies. Gavin Burgess thanks Jonathan Dawrant. Case 1. 7 y girl with vague flu-like illness for last week, low grade fever Some weight loss (clothes are looser), but mother has put family on “detox” program for 1 month - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Paediatric Endocrine Emergencies
Gavin Burgessthanks Jonathan Dawrant
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Case 1
• 7 y girl with vague flu-like illness for last week, low grade fever
• Some weight loss (clothes are looser), but mother has put family on “detox” program for 1 month
• The girl is on the track team, trying out for nationals
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Case 1 cont.
• Nausea, abdominal pain, fatigue
• Looks thin, as does whole family
• No family history of significance
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Case 1 cont.
• P 120, BP 110/70, R30, sats 96%
• Moderately dehydrated
• Normal LOC
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Case 1 cont.
• What labs do you want?
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Case 1 cont.
• CBC: Hb 140, plt 400, WCC 14, L shift
• Lytes: Na 137, K 4.5, Cl 100, BUN 7, Creat 50, glc 30
• Gas: 7.29/40/50/12/-10
• UA ketones 3+, clear
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Case 1 cont.
• Definition of DKA
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Case 1 cont.
• pH <7.25
• HCO3 <15
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Case 1 cont.
• Management
• replace with NS, if hypovolaemic (10-20ml/kg). Trend towards no routine bolus @ ACH
• No evidence for NS vs 0.45NS as fluid thereafter
• replace losses no more than 2x maintenance over next 48h
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Case 1 cont.
• Management cont.
• Add 40 mEq/l KCl+KPO4 (50:50)
• insulin infusion: 25U in 250ml, run @ weight, remember to deduct this volume from the total maintenance fluid
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Case 1 cont.
• Management cont.:
• when glucose reaches 15mmol/l, start to add glucose (5%) to the maintenance, increasing the concentration. Do not adjust insulin rate
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Case 1 cont.
• Monitoring:
• alternating cap gas and lytes, for results q2h
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Case 1 cont.
• Pitfalls:
• using subcutaneous insulin to treat DKA
• cerebral oedema - risk factors?
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Case 1 cont.• Pitfalls:
• cerebral oedema
• Elevated BUN
• low PCO2
• Bicarb treatment
• Na fails to rise as GLC normalises
• <3y
• New diagnosis
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Case 1 cont.
• Signs of cerebral oedema.... start mannitol or 3% saline.
• cerebral oedema has 60-80% mortality rate
• accounts for >50% of hospital and 30% of home deaths
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Case 1 cont.
• Pitfalls:
• fasciitis - cases associated with new presentation
• Attributing excercise/eating disorder to the cause of the symptoms
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Case 1 cont.
• turn down insulin to 0.05u/kg/h when bicarb 15mmol/l
• PO intake from around 17-18mmol/l
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• Diabetics with lows -
• may be on a pump!
• always check the TYPE of insulin (lentis vs R)
• OFTEN obtunded - don’t need CT scans
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Case 2
• hours old male brought in as PHN thought he was jittery
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Case 2 cont.
• mother had borderline GDM
• birthweight 4.1kg
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Case 2 cont.• Critical labs:
• insulin
• cortisol
• growth hormone
• repeat glucose, lactate
• urine ketones - poor man’s 17OH butyrate
• plasma AA, urine OA
• SCM order sheet
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Case 2 cont.
• What glc level would prompt you to draw critical labs?
• Is there an ideal time to draw the labs?
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Case 2 cont.
• Glucose solutions and doses:
• infant: D10W 2-4ml/kg
• 1-8: D25W 2-4ml/kg
• older: D50W 1 ampule
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Case 3
• red hair and peripheral eosinophilia?
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Case 3
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Case 3
• 2y male, son of paramedic, found unconscious at home
• rushed to ACH
• “dirty” hands
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Case 3 cont.
• Labs:
• glc 2
• Na 129
• K 5.5
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Case 3 cont.
• hydrocortisone 50-100mg iv (subsequent 50mg/m2)
• fluid resuscitation
• look for endocrine neon pink sheet
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Case 3 cont.
• pigment with adrenal failure (vs central)
• stress dosing - don’t need mineralocorticoid replacement
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Case 3 cont.
• what’s the commonest cause of adrenal failure?
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Case 3 cont.
• iatrogenic esp. rheumatological conditions
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Case 4
• 2 week male, lethargy, poor feeding, vomiting
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Case 4 cont.
• always check genitalia
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Case 4 cont.
• 21 hydroxylase deficiency, AR, 90% of cases
• “shunt” of hormone down androgen pathway
• salt wasting starts at birth
• Enzyme levels take weeks to come back - but on Alberta screen
• lack of aldosterone and cortisol
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Case 4 cont.
• where’s the block?
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Case 4 cont.
• girls have abnormal (but variable) external genitalia, normal internal genitalia
• boys may have penile enlargement, but normal sized testes
• boys often missed
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Case 4 cont.
• labs show low Na, high K, glc frequently normal, mild acidosis
• fluid resuscitation
• mineralo (not acutely) + glucocorticoid replacement
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Case 5
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Case 5
• Joseph Heller
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Case 5
• 2d girl with jittery spells, exaggerated startle, some posturing
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Case 5 cont
• Elongated face, almond-shaped eyes, long but wide nose, small nostrils, small and low-set ears, dark red rings under the eyes, open-mouthed expression, reduced movement and low muscle tone, small jaw, flat cheekbones
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Case 5 cont.• Catch 22
• congenital heart disease (conotruncal)
• abnormal face
• thymic hypoplasia
• cleft palate
• hypocalcaemia
• microdeletion of 22
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Case 5 cont.
• Treatment
• 1ml/kg Ca gluconate
• cardiac monitor
• always check Mg, replace first
• no more than 50mg/min: 10ml of 10% Ca glu = 90mg Ca
• then add to iv 100mg/kg/24h. or PO
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Case 5 cont
• admit all tetany, seizures and cases of laryngospasm for work up
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Case 6
• moans, groans, stones
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Case 6 cont
• Orthopaedics call:
• fracture follow-up, 8yo girl Ca ionised 1.3
• “What should I do?”
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Case 6 cont.
• investigations?
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Case 6 cont.
• Ca ionised and total, ALP, albumin
• renal function
• UA, Ca:creatinine spot
• ECG - shortening of QT interval
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Case 6 cont.
• malignancy
• renal
• immobilisation
• Vit D and A
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Case 6 cont.
• ICU
• NS at 2x maintenance
• lasix
• bisphosphonates
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Case 6 cont.
• EXTREMELY rare in paediatrics, arguably not an emergency as correction over hours
• hypervitaminosis D
• mild BP, mild Ca elevation, constipation
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Case 6 cont.
• most frequently present with irritability, poor feeding, constipation
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Case 7
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Case 7 cont.
• 13 yo F headache, palpitations, sweating
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Case 7 cont.
• the rule of 10.....
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Case 7 cont.
• ∝-blockade
• same as for malignant hypertension
• UA for?
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For completeness sake...
• Thyroid coma
• Thyroid storm
• no case reports
• DI/SIADH - more fluid/lytes problem