Antimicrobial Choice, Route and Duration — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

Antimicrobial Choice, Route and Duration 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. What his mother describes
2. Telling the two apart
3. Whether caution is free
4. What the colleague believes
5. When the culture comes back
6. Which route from here
7. How long the guideline says
8. What the chart does not say
9. A number above the maximum
10. A swab from around a tube
11. Why the route was chosen
12. No time to check the label
13. Why not this time
14. Justifying a broader agent
15. Nothing was ever sent
16. Where the gains are
17. A fortnight after finishing
18. What the guideline omits

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: The age at, The label forces broader agents, Only a second agent, At the starting decision, Food poisoning.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• Ask what actually happened. Most labels do not survive the question.
• How fast, and what else. Two questions grade almost every label.
• The label is a diagnosis. Treat it like one and it usually goes away.
• Side chain, not the ring. That one fact retires the ten percent figure.
• A culture result is a prescribing decision. Open it and act on it.
• Ask on every ward round why the cannula is still there.

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 infectious disease case decks · pediatric reference values.