Neutropenia and the Febrile Neutropenic Child — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

Neutropenia and the Febrile Neutropenic Child in 18 board-style clinical cases with worked explanations. Each case gives you a clinical vignette, four options, the correct answer, and an explanation of why each of the other three is wrong, with the guideline or textbook it follows named on the answer.

Board-style teaching questions for paediatricians and trainees preparing for paediatric board, MRCPCH and licensing examinations. Written from published guidelines and standard paediatric textbooks, with the source named on every answer.

The 18 cases, in order

1. A number that changes the advice
2. The same result for three years
3. A count taken mid-illness
4. Ulcers on a three-week timetable
5. Nothing is finishing in the marrow
6. A toddler who keeps getting better
7. The clock started when he arrived
8. Where to take the blood from
9. A shortcut that must not be taken
10. An abdomen you do not want to open
11. Still hot on the sixth day
12. An injection the parents read about
13. Three days a week, all year
14. A classmate came out in spots
15. A very sore mouth and nothing else
16. Ninety minutes away with no car
17. A red track above the line
18. The count is climbing again

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: Moderate neutropenia, Chronic autoimmune neutropenia, Autoimmune neutropenia of infancy, From one lumen of the line only, It is not routine in uncomplicated episodes, Pneumocystis pneumonia, against.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• One and a half, one, and a half. Three numbers that sort every count you will see.
• Stable for years, well throughout. Do not turn a normal variant into an investigation.
• Do not investigate a dip taken during the virus that caused it. Repeat it after.
• You cannot see a cycle from one point. Count twice a week for six weeks.
• Plenty of early cells, nothing mature. That marrow picture names the disease.
• Mild infections and a well toddler. This one is waited out, not treated.

Work through the deck once for recognition, then again a week later to test yourself — each question gives the answer and explains why every other option fails.

More from this system: all Haematology case decks · pediatric reference values.