The Difficult Paediatric Airway: Rescue Techniques — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

The Difficult Paediatric Airway: Rescue Techniques 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. Two nurses standing free
2. Snoring at the roadside
3. Chosen by eye from the trolley
4. A fall, and two black eyes
5. Two goes, and falling
6. She can see it better now
7. Two doctors, one night shift
8. The scan can be done tomorrow
9. One in theatre, one at home
10. Eighteen months, and nothing works
11. Listed, and breathing comfortably
12. It looks right to everyone
13. Louder on one side
14. Onto the trolley, into the lift
15. The belly is coming up
16. Blood, and a blind catheter
17. Down the corridor to theatre
18. Nothing to discuss, he says

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: By lifting the chin, The airway has been inserted upside down, To use the other nostril, Once he can no longer maintain the airway, The plan, The misting of the tube.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• A leaking mask needs a second pair of hands, not a stronger squeeze.
• Jaw thrust is the airway manoeuvre that leaves the neck alone.
• An oropharyngeal airway is measured, never estimated. Too long obstructs.
• Bruised eyes and clear nasal fluid: nothing goes up the nose.
• Failed mask, failed tube: the device above the cords comes before the neck.
• Every look costs blood, swelling and oxygen. Count the looks.

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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