FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
JUNE 2017
POSSESSION USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
NEONATOLOGY
PAPER III
NEONAT/J/17/19/III
Time 3 hours
Max. Marks 100
Important instructions:
• Attempt all questions in order.
• Each question carries 10 marks.
• Read the question carefully and answer to the point neatly and legibly.
• Do not leave any blank pages between two answers.
• Indicate the question number correctly for the answer in the margin space.
• Answer all the parts of a single question together.
• Start the answer to a question on a fresh page or leave adequate space between two answers.
• Draw table/diagrams/flowcharts wherever appropriate.
Write short notes on:
1. Management of pain in a neonate.
10
2. Enumerate the pulmonary vasodilators used in neonates.
Utility of pulmonary vasodilators used in neonates.
3+7
3. Enumerate the causes of hydrocephalus in neonates.
Management of hydrocephalus in neonates
5+5
4. Prioritise and discuss measures for prevention of infection in
nursery
5
5. Risk factors, patho-physiology and management of
thromboembolism in neonates

6. Outline an approach to a neonate with thrombocytopenia.
10
7. What is HIE?
How do you diagnose it?
Total Body Hypothermia as a management strategy for
this condition.

8. What is Extra Uterine Growth Restriction
How would you diagnose this in a neonate?
Outline the management of a child with EUGR.

9. Human Milk Banking.
Near Infra Red Spectroscopy.
Insulin like growth factor binding protein.

10. What are the diseases which may be amenable to
prenatal treatment?
Prenatal Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.
3+7