Skin and Soft Tissue Infection — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

Skin and Soft Tissue 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. Sores around the mouth
2. Going back to nursery
3. Something soft in the middle
4. Tablets or a procedure
5. What the lid is hiding
6. Worse on the second day
7. Skin that slides under a thumb
8. Where the erosions are
9. Hurting more than it looks
10. Whether to scan him first
11. Every spot exactly alike
12. Five in six months
13. Which of the four bites
14. How he says he got it
15. A red ring round the cord
16. What the grandmother is doing
17. Three jobs at the same time
18. When the cotton bud helps

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: An oral antibiotic for a week, After two weeks, A collection has formed, Aspiration with a needle, Infection in front of the septum, Stevens-Johnson syndrome after a recent drug, The presence of blistering, Simple cellulitis, Impetiginised eczema, That it is a tendon injury, Immediate surgical incision, The bacterial infection alone, after.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• Golden crust after little blisters. Cream, clean hands and short nails.
• Crusted or forty-eight hours of treatment. Say it plainly to the nursery.
• Always mark the edge. Tomorrow’s line tells you whether the treatment is working.
• If it is fluctuant, the knife cures it. The antibiotic is the afterthought.
• Open the lids and check four things. Movements, pain, proptosis, colour.
• Ask about pain on looking up. It changes before anything else does.

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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