Practice CPSP FCPS I Paediatrics questions with answers and explanations.
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Oral rehydration solution is a glucose-electrolyte solution that promotes intestinal sodium and water absorption.
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Measles is a highly contagious viral illness with fever, cough, coryza, conjunctivitis and rash.
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Pertussis is a bacterial respiratory infection causing paroxysmal cough and possible apnoea in infants.
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Intussusception is telescoping of one bowel segment into another, causing episodic pain and obstruction.
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Meningococcaemia is invasive meningococcal infection that may cause rapidly progressive sepsis and purpura.
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Acute gastroenteritis is acute diarrhoeal illness with risk of dehydration, especially in infants and young children.
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Severe acute malnutrition is a condition identified by very low anthropometry, oedema or other accepted criteria and associated with high clinical risk.
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Agonist is a ligand that binds to a receptor and activates it to produce a biological response.
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Competitive antagonist is a reversible receptor blocker whose effect can be overcome by increasing agonist concentration.
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First-pass metabolism is presystemic metabolism that reduces oral bioavailability before a drug reaches systemic circulation.
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Half-life is the time required for the plasma concentration of a drug to fall by one half.
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Therapeutic index is a measure comparing toxic and effective doses and indicating a drug safety margin.
