Anaphylaxis: Management After Adrenaline — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

Anaphylaxis: Management After Adrenaline 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. Still wheezing, still pale
2. Playing, and still here
3. Two children, one afternoon
4. How many to send home
5. Who else knows how
6. What the school can act on
7. Weals and nothing else
8. Lips, and one eye
9. Twice, and no rash
10. Reaching for the blue one
11. Only after games
12. Trying it at home
13. Three hours in, and back again
14. The one you cannot waive
15. A rash at two, a label at nine
16. Left at home again
17. A label that named nothing
18. What is missing a week later

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: The side effects of the treatment she was given, Both go home once four hours have elapsed, A letter confirming the diagnosis, As a reaction confined to the skin, That his voice and his swallowing are intact, As anxiety about the food itself, The diagnosis, Only the drug cost, Asking the school to hold a device for her, The devices themselves.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• The second dose is decided by the clock, and the clock is five minutes.
• She is kept for the reaction that has not happened yet.
• Watch longer for a worse reaction and for a longer road home.
• Two devices, always. The spare is for the day the first one is not enough.
• The person you trained is usually not the person who will be there.
• A plan that does not name a person and a place is a letter.

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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