Resuscitation at Birth — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

Resuscitation at Birth 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. Who else should be there
2. When the cord is cut
3. The minute he does not have
4. The towel that was not enough
5. The clock on the wall
6. What the pause tells you
7. Two pairs of hands
8. Nobody said whose it was
9. Twenty minutes with nothing
10. The number written afterwards
11. One tube or two
12. What comes out of the mask
13. Where the dial begins
14. The figure that is not yet ninety
15. The catheter she reached for
16. Where she goes from here
17. Nothing written at the time
18. What nobody checked

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: Deciding the moment at.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• Antenatal risk is a reason to call early, not a reason to watch.
• The well baby waits. That is the whole rule.
• Deferred clamping is for the baby who does not need you.
• Under thirty-two weeks, do not dry. Wrap him wet and get him warm.
• The first minute is a deadline, not a description.
• No response usually means no inflation. Look at the chest, not the dial.

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 neonatology case decks · pediatric reference values.