Pediatric Surgery Questions and answers

Pediatric Surgery Questions and answers Pediatric surgery is a multidisciplinary field that encompasses many surgical specialties. Most procedures can be classified in one of three groups: - Surgery for treatment of congenital anomalies •Procedures for treatment of disease •Trauma surgery Pediatrics includes the care of the child from _________ to ______________. - neonate, late adolescence physiological balance - homeostasis infants and neonates, are particularly vulnerable to ________________ and ____________________. - hypothermia and hyperthermia Physiological mechanisms that normally regulate temperature in an adult are absent or undeveloped in the infant. Infants and children tend to lose more heat than they generate. - Thermoregulation Infants' relatively large skin surface area and low body weight can contribute to rapid lowering of the core temperature. T or F? - True Children and infants have extensive peripheral circulation, which contributes to relatively