The Surgical Newborn: Antenatal Diagnosis and Delivery Room — Board-Style Questions

What this deck covers

The Surgical Newborn: Antenatal Diagnosis and Delivery Room 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. Delivering close to home
2. Sparing them the worry
3. Booked somewhere else
4. Told she must have an operation
5. Covered with wet gauze
6. Left hanging to one side
7. Leaving the stomach alone
8. Doing what she always does
9. Clearing his mouth again
10. Trying a softer one
11. Green, and otherwise well
12. Slower than the others
13. Waiting to be asked
14. Waiting for better hands
15. Waiting outside the door
16. What the summary did not say
17. A tiny amount, for comfort
18. A plan that never arrived

Diagnoses and management options tested

Across the 18 cases you are asked to choose between options such as: As reflux, An immediate operation.

Clinical pearls from this deck

• The best transport for a surgical newborn is his mother, before he is born.
• The antenatal meeting is part of the treatment, not a courtesy.
• A booking is a plan. Full dilatation is a fact.
• Decide the place antenatally. Leave the mode to the obstetricians.
• Clear plastic, not wet gauze. Wet gauze is an evaporator.
• Support the bowel. The stalk it hangs on is narrow.

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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