Acute Paediatrics — Flashcards

What is the management of mumps? _____ & school/work exclusion for 5 days after onset of parotid swelling

A 20 year old male with a confirmed mumps diagnosis returns with a epigastric pain, nausea & vomiting. What complication of mumps is most likely to have occured? _____

A 20 year old male with a confirmed mumps diagnosis returns with a warm, inflamed, painful testicle & vomiting. What complication of mumps is most likely to have occured? _____

_____ wait for laboratory confirmation of mumps diagnosis before notifying the local health protection team (HPT)

Hint: Do/Do not

_____ are more likely to have CNS complications of mumps

Hint: Men/Women

A university student who grew up outside of the UK presents with tender bilateral jaw swelling preceeded by a 4-day fever. What diagnosis do you suspect? _____

Mumps is spread via _____

Significant parotid swelling in patients with mumps may cause _____ known as trismus

_____ is a viral infection that characteristically causes parotitis

_____ is a complication of mumps that occurs in 20-30% of postpubertal males usually occuring within 1 week of the onset of parotid swelling