The Childhood Exanthems — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

The Childhood Exanthems 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. White spots before the rash
2. Whether to wait for the laboratory
3. Something specific to give
4. An illness from years before
5. When the rash arrived
6. A telephone call about a contact
7. How long to stay at home
8. What it could do to the baby
9. A rash you can feel
10. Two questions from the parents
11. What sets the return date
12. A fever that came back
13. What comes weeks later
14. What set it off
15. One patch came first
16. Making them go faster
17. Numbers that changed the plan
18. Telling two rashes apart

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: Roseola, in, Vitamin A, Meningococcal infection, A drug rash, Sun exposure, Nummular eczema, The colour of the rash.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• Look inside the cheeks before the rash arrives. That is when it is diagnosable.
• Pick up the phone on suspicion. The laboratory result arrives too late to act on.
• Two doses on two days. Cheap, and it is the one thing that moves mortality.
• Infection under two carries the highest risk. That is the argument for the schedule.
• If the rash arrives as the fever leaves, the illness has already finished.
• Her booking bloods usually answer it. Ask for them before ordering anything.

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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