Neonatal Jaundice: Assessment and Phototherapy — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

Neonatal Jaundice: Assessment and Phototherapy 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. Yellow on the first day
2. Rounding to the nearest day
3. Quick and needs no blood
4. How fast it is climbing
5. Same number, two babies
6. What the light is doing
7. Still going up
8. After the lights go off
9. A test that came back positive
10. Why any of this matters
11. What the nappies showed
12. The label applied too soon
13. More than the colour
14. A number with no clock
15. What to watch for at home
16. Taking him out to feed
17. Before the line is crossed
18. What the audit found

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: Act on the device reading, It warms the skin, A conjugated fraction, The anxiety it causes parents, Attribute it to breastfeeding, It can be plotted at the current age, Once the value has been crossed.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• Yellow on day one is urgent however well the baby looks.
• Hours from birth, never days. The line is too steep for rounding.
• The device tells you who to bleed, not who to treat.
• Two levels give you a slope. The slope is often the answer.
• Pick the chart by gestation before you pick the point by hours.
• It changes the shape so the pigment can leave without the liver.

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.