Congenital and Perinatal Infection — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

Congenital and Perinatal 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. An old result from before
2. Whether one dose was enough
3. Why the two differ
4. A well baby with one concern
5. A large head at birth
6. Practical steps she can take
7. Snuffles that will not clear
8. Two mothers, two answers
9. Planning how she gives birth
10. Why it gets missed
11. Day two and day nine
12. Drops or something more
13. A shortened arm at birth
14. How close to the birth
15. Two problems at once
16. Why the age matters
17. What to leave off the shopping list
18. A normal baby, and then what

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: The severity of the illness, Congenital cytomegalovirus, in, Rehome both cats, Congenital syphilis, in, An amniotic band, Citrus fruit and fresh tomatoes.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• Ask what was found THIS pregnancy. The old swab is a distraction.
• Four hours. Write the time of the first dose where the baby’s team will see it.
• Ask where it came from before you ask which antibiotic.
• Observations are a decision, not a delay. Write down what would change it.
• Where the calcification sits separates the two. Scattered or around the ventricles.
• Most people blame the cat. Most of the risk is on the chopping board.

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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