FINAL EXAM NATIONAL BOARD OF EXAMINATIONS
DECEMBER 2017
NEONATOLOGY
PAPER III
POSSESSION USE OF CELL PHONES OR ANY SUCH ELECTRONIC GADGETS IS NOT PERMITTED INSIDE THE
EXAMINATION HALL.
Time 3 hours NEONAT/D/17/19/III
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. Briefly discuss the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance
and strategies for its prevention.
5+5
2. Classify anti-arrhythmic drugs. Discuss pharmacologic and
non-pharmacologic treatment of supra-ventricular
tachycardia.
5+5
3. Describe briefly the spectrum of long term outcome in
extremely low birth weight infants till school age.
10
4. Describe the burden of birth defects. Enumerate steps to
establish a birth defects surveillance program.
5+5
5. Discuss the interpretation of various scalars and loops in
pulmonary graphic monitoring of the ventilated neonate.
5+5
6. a. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy
b. NIDCAP
5+5
7. Describe an approach to neonatal metabolic screening. 1 0
8. a. Microbiome
b. PVHI current classification
5+5
9. a. RMNCH-A strategy
b. Mother's Absolute Affection
5+5
10. a. Otoacoustic Emission in a newborn
b. Risk factors for ROP (Evidence based)
5+5