What this deck covers
Pneumonia in twelve board-style clinical cases with worked explanations, written for the Saudi Prometric (SCFHS) exam, MRCPCH Part 1 and Part 2, the Arab Board, DHA and OMSB. Each case gives you a clinical vignette, four options, the correct answer, and an explanation of why each of the other three is wrong.
The 12 cases, in order
- A child seen in clinic
- What the imaging is for
- What is happening in the lung
- Reading the axial slice
- Choosing the drug and the duration
- Two days later on the ward
- A probe on the chest
- Looking at the collection
- The sample in the pot
- The tube on the ward round
- Holes in the lung
- The third admission
Diagnoses and management options tested
Across the twelve cases you are asked to choose between options such as: Dilated bronchi, indicating established bronchiectasis, A simple pleural effusion, unloculated, Normal lung obscured by rib shadowing, Consolidated lung with air bronchograms, A septated empyema with fibrin strands, Poorly controlled asthma presenting as recurrent pneumonia.
Exam pearls from this deck
- Imaging earns its place when it changes something: a complication found, or a failure explained.
- The figures run normal, then congested capillaries, then alveoli packed with exudate.
- An air bronchogram is air in a bronchus made visible because the alveoli around it are no longer air.
- Streptococcus pneumoniae remains the commonest bacterial cause across childhood, and amoxicillin covers it.
- Normal lung is all artefact — a bright pleural line with horizontal A-lines repeating beneath it.
- Strands are fibrin: the collection has moved from free-flowing fluid to an organising one.
The deck above is free and needs no sign-in. Work through it once for recognition, then again a week later for recall — the questions are written in the format the exam actually uses.
More from this system: all respiratory decks and question sets · the free Pediatric Prometric question bank · pediatric reference values.
