Sun Protection and Photoprotection in Children — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

Sun Protection and Photoprotection in Children 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. All four still burned
2. Twice in one day
3. Which one should I buy
4. It did not feel hot
5. There was no sun
6. Which cream for a baby
7. A base before the holiday
8. They have never burned
9. Camping in three weeks
10. Only on one cheek
11. Was she right to stop
12. Found in the glovebox
13. He came to no harm
14. A letter each June
15. It was freezing cold
16. Does the order matter
17. What will help
18. She will not drink

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: A water-resistant product should be used, after, The ultraviolet level for the day, A high-factor product applied thinly, That side windows stop only part of it, Use it but apply twice as much, Cold injury to the exposed parts of the face, Sunscreen first and repellent over it, A topical anaesthetic preparation.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• Ask how much came out of the bottle before you blame the bottle.
• Reapply after the towel, not after the water.
• Shade, then clothes, then sunscreen. In that order.
• A cool day can burn a child. Look up the number, not the thermometer.
• Overcast at the coast is one of the ways children burn worst.
• Under six months, cover and shade. Sunscreen is the gap-filler.

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.

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