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Case Complete
What this deck covers
Feeding the Preterm Infant 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
- An empty gut on day one
- Whose milk goes in first
- How fast the volume climbs
- Cautious, and paying for it
- What was in the tube
- Green, and a changed baby
- An antenatal scan, a week later
- Waiting for things to settle
- A net that is also a hazard
- Four weeks on the line
- Every millilitre, and still not growing
- Practising into exhaustion
- Counting towards a number
- Empty until the scan
- A protocol from a calmer week
- Four small decisions
- Allowed to hold him
- Two units, one number
Diagnoses and management options tested
Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: Donor milk, A doubling each day, Growth alone, Full oral volumes, Start a course of antibiotics, The volume, A particular weight, That the stops are unrelated to the weight.
Clinical pearls from this deck
- Start something in the gut on day one, however small.
- When her milk is not there yet, bridge with donor milk.
- A known step each day. Intolerance is only informative against one.
- Going slower is not free. It is paid for in line days.
- A milky residue is a fed stomach, not a warning.
- Green plus a distended abdomen plus a flat baby is a stop.
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.
