OSCE Stations, OSCE - Nutrition, Metabolic & Jaundice
OSCE Counselling: A Parent Worried About Her Baby’s Low Glucose
Practise counselling a mother with diabetes whose newborn has a low glucose: why he’s being checked, what happens next, and an honest answer about his brain.
OSCE Stations, OSCE - Nutrition, Metabolic & Jaundice
OSCE Viva: Screening and Managing Neonatal Hypoglycaemia
Practise a viva on low glucose in a late-preterm, small-for-gestational-age baby: who to screen, the age-specific thresholds, and when to give IV glucose.
Neonatal Hypoglycaemia: The AAP Screening Algorithm Explained
Who to screen, when to feed and when to give IV glucose: the AAP’s practical approach to low glucose in late-preterm and term newborns.
OSCE Stations, OSCE - Nutrition, Metabolic & Jaundice
OSCE Counselling: A Parent Asking for Home Phototherapy
Practise counselling a parent about jaundice: why this baby needs hospital phototherapy, why water and sunlight are unsafe, and what happens next.
OSCE Stations, OSCE - Nutrition, Metabolic & Jaundice
OSCE Viva: Escalation of Care in Severe Neonatal Jaundice
A practice OSCE viva on severe neonatal jaundice, based on the AAP 2022 guideline: when to escalate, when to use IVIG and when an exchange can’t wait.
Neonatal Jaundice: What Changed in the AAP 2022 Guideline
The AAP 2022 jaundice guideline explained: higher phototherapy thresholds, follow-up based on distance from the threshold, and the new escalation-of-care step.
Prematurity & the Cardiovascular System
In very preterm babies, the first-day danger is low blood flow, not low blood pressure. Here’s how the immature heart, the duct and the brain interact.
Defining Neonatal Hypotension
Mean BP below gestation, under 30 mmHg or a low centile? None of these numbers predicts outcome. Confirm poor perfusion before you treat a reading.