PEDIATRIC CRITICAL DIAGNOSIS
- There are over 55 clinical challenges each with several pages of clinical material demonstrating crucial findings to enable you not to miss a key diagnosis or clinical finding in future.
- The number of challenges will be continually added to.
- Scroll below to get an overview of the topics currently covered including over :
- 20 questions relating to neonatal care
- 7 relating to abdominal pain and pitfalls in diagnosis
- 8 kidney and bladder related cases.
- 7 critical diagnostic neck lesion challenges
- 5 child abuse issues
- 12 medical cases
- Many other areas including child abuse, trauma, surgical diagnosis, skin lesions, hernias, referred pain, psychological care , easily missed radiological diagnostic findings and many other cases with conditions commonly misdiagnosed.
- A great learning experience for anyone involved with pediatric assessment.
- Scroll below for a list of challenges
- A lump in the infant female. Whats easily missed
- Pyloric stenosis – a helpful and often overlooked sign.
- No weight gain in a baby – a medical /surgical trap.
- A distended abdomen after a fall. A common mistake.
- A significantly distended abdomen immediately after birth.
- Acute shortness of breath – a medical /surgical trap.
- A critical psychological diagnosis.
- A critical clinical finding in possible cystic fibrosis.
- Intussusception – Another way not to miss the diagnosis.
- A growth on the head.
- Rapidly diagnosis the truly sick infant.
- A key clinical factor in the abnormal scrotum.
- A solution to help in the diagnosis of a neck lump.
- A discharging neck sinus – a critical additional catch
- An axillary lump – do not miss this one.
- Torticollis what to do.
- A midline neck lump – do the right thing.
- Abdominal pain – examine the whole patient
- Painful defecation – do not delay the diagnosis on this one.
- A 3 year old with a surgical abdomen – do not miss this hidden cause.
- Radiating abdominal pain – clinch the diagnosis.
- A choking child with a foreign body – a crucial mistake to avoid.
- A palpable kidney in an infant – what not to do.
- A dilated ureter how serious is it really.
- The painful scrotum avoid a common error.
- Foreign Body Aspiration – a most valuable sign!
- This child does not need an operation its simply a pneumonia.
- Do not damage this nerve.
- This abscess required much more management than you might think.
- A groin lump with a difference.
- Know your umbilicus.
- A really abnormal bladder.
- A bloody vomit – you need to be fast to address this problem
- A fall – do not miss this injury.
- A hard scrotal lump – its really about the other side.
- Child abuse – a classic but often missed critical clue.
- A neck sinus know what to do !
- Abdominal pain – recurrent but easily fixed.
- The umbilicus – emergency management to save the infant.
- The posture of the baby gives the likely diagnosis.
- Take the appendix out – A big mistake!
- Abdominal trauma – likely child abuse a critical clue!
- Spot diagnosis.
- A Urinary dribble clinch the diagnosis.
- A hydrocele -that is not the complete story.
- Non bilious vomiting an x-ray with a difference.
- No — avoid operating at all costs.
- Yellow vomit- understand the full picture.
- A rectal mass what to do. Be clear about the diagnosis.
- Move on this periorbital swelling – else lose the sight.
- A subtle but yet obvious case of child abuse.
- A baby blowing bubbles. Early detection crucial.
- Pale stools – Got to get this right!!
- Difficulty swallowing Clinch it.
- Recurrent urinary infection medical management will not work here.