HIV and the Child with Recurrent Infection — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

HIV and the Child with Recurrent 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. Nine colds in one winter
2. Which parts are the alarm
3. Two babies, two ages
4. Where the fault lies
5. Why normal results mislead
6. Four problems, one cause
7. Changing how she is scanned
8. An unexpected laboratory result
9. What she was told abroad
10. A result taken at face value
11. Same number, different meaning
12. Worse three weeks in
13. Numbers moving the wrong way
14. What she has not been told
15. Choosing the bag
16. She came in on her own
17. Signs that do not match
18. Who is seen this week

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: The number of infections, The number of circulating neutrophils, Birth injury, The antibody detected may be the mother’s, Resistance to the drugs, An opportunistic process.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• Ask how he is between the infections. Well and growing settles most of these.
• Deep, persistent, unusual, and not growing. Four words that change the plan.
• Under six months points one way, after six months the other. Ask the age first.
• A normal neutrophil count is exactly what this condition looks like.
• A normal screen excludes some things and not this. Know which is which.
• Cardiac lesion plus a low calcium in the first week. Send the test then.

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 Infectious Disease case decks · pediatric reference values.