Neonatal Hypoglycaemia — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

Neonatal Hypoglycaemia 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. Well, and still on the list
2. Thoroughness that backfires
3. Twenty minutes old
4. Reaching for the cannula
5. How much to trust the meter
6. Floppy and will not rouse
7. Undressed for a procedure
8. Bottles before treatment
9. More sugar every few hours
10. Four days and counting
11. Drawing a line too early
12. Keen to leave this afternoon
13. Treated as though term
14. Shaking that can be stopped
15. Thin, with loose skin
16. Three attempts, two hours
17. Closed on a good number
18. Moved off the ward

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: It was taken from the heel, Jitteriness.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• The risk list is a list of mothers and birth weights, not of symptoms.
• Testing everybody finds nothing and costs a great deal.
• The first two hours dip in everybody. Start at the second feed.
• Feed, gel and warm first. The drip is for the baby with signs, or the one that does not respond.
• Act on the low bedside number and confirm it properly.
• Abnormal signs plus a low number is a treat-now situation.

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.