Fever in the Returning Traveller — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

Fever in the Returning Traveller 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. Hot since he got back
2. One test came back clear
3. What the family produced
4. Which route to use
5. An hour after starting treatment
6. Ill again four months later
7. How long since the journey
8. Pain behind the eyes
9. Better, then worse
10. Which sample to send
11. Where to assess her
12. A collection under the ribs
13. A small black mark
14. One line on the blood count
15. Which two get tested
16. Films clear, child still hot
17. A nip from a stray
18. What to add to the form

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: Influenza, Correct the glucose alone, A fresh infection, Dengue, in, The dangerous phase, Abdominal ultrasound, Amoebic liver abscess, The first of the spots, A viral infection, The airline and the airports.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• Ask where they have been before you ask anything else.
• Three films, forty-eight hours. Book them before anyone goes home.
• Good adherence lowers the odds and closes nothing. Send the films anyway.
• Count the severity features before you reach for a tablet. One is enough.
• Recheck the sugar in severe malaria. It falls again after you have fixed it.
• Write the species in the letter. Months later it decides the whole diagnosis.

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.