Bone and Joint Infection — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

Bone and Joint Infection 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. The way he is lying
2. Sorting the two children out
3. A limp that is probably nothing
4. What the scan actually showed
5. Which comes first tonight
6. An early film that showed nothing
7. An arm held completely still
8. Nothing grew on the plate
9. Why both at once in a baby
10. What came in on the nail
11. Nowhere in the legs to find
12. Nothing grows and nothing works
13. When the child overtakes the joint
14. What the six weeks really means
15. What to watch once it is over
16. The first line of the guidance
17. Which one cannot wait
18. Whether anything was stored up

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: Transient synovitis, The preceding cold, Perthes disease, As pain rather than weakness, Kingella kingae, Clostridium tetani, against, A urinary tract infection, The length depends only on, Recurrence of the same infection, The outcome depends only on.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• Watch how they lie before you touch them. The hip picks its own position.
• Four questions: fever, weight bearing, white cells, sedimentation rate. Count them out loud.
• Safe to call it only if he walks. Give the parents a date to come back.
• Ultrasound answers whether, never what. Only the needle answers what.
• Ask how long the sample will take. Twenty minutes is worth it; twenty minutes of shock is not.
• A normal film in the first week is a normal film, not a normal bone.

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.

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