The Duct-Dependent Newborn

What this deck covers

The Duct-Dependent Newborn in twelve clinical teaching 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.

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the twelve cases you are asked to choose between options such as: Overwhelming late-onset sepsis, A metabolic disorder presenting late, Non-accidental injury with hypovolaemia, A second intravenous access site, Airway kit and someone able to intubate, A cross-matched unit of blood, Consistent with persistent pulmonary hypertension only, A right-sided aortic arch indenting the trachea, An egg-on-side silhouette with a narrow waist, A boot-shaped heart with an uplifted apex, Immediate assessment and an urgent echocardiogram, Transposition of the great arteries, Obstructed anomalous pulmonary venous drainage, Coarctation of the aorta, Pulmonary atresia with an intact septum, Closed the ductus arteriosus prematurely, Suppressed his respiratory drive and caused hypercapnia.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• A duct-dependent circulation is one in which the duct carries blood the heart itself cannot deliver.
• Differential cyanosis — blue blood crossing into the descending aorta

The twelve worked cases in this deck, with the images and the full explanation of every option, are part of Pediatric Case Review membership. See what is included.

More from this system: all cardiology decks and question sets · pediatric reference values.