General practice · History

Collapse at a music festival - General practice

EasyYear 4 · Curtin style · 10 min + 2 min reading · 4 tasks

Ready

2 min reading, 10 min station, warning at 2 min.

Station - Instructions for candidate

You are a medical student on placement in a general practice in Joondalup.

Tahlia Brennan, a 19-year-old nursing student, has come in the morning after collapsing at an outdoor music festival. Her friend brought her to the first-aid tent, where she was told to see her GP. The GP has asked you to see her first.

Practice nurse observations todayHR 68 regular, BP 112/70 mmHg seated, temperature 36.6 C, SpO2 99% on room air

Your tasks are to:

  1. Take a focused history.
  2. Request any relevant investigations.
  3. State your most likely diagnosis and differential diagnoses to the examiner.
  4. Outline your initial management plan to the examiner.
  • You do NOT need to examine the patient; examination findings will be provided by the examiner on request.
  • You do NOT need to summarise your history to the examiner.

This is a 10-minute station, with 2 minutes of reading time.

Ask the examiner

Say what you would examine or request, the way you would in the station. Nothing is named until you ask for it.

Whatever the examiner recognises is revealed below. Or pick a numbered item to reveal it blind.

Investigations

Ask for a category the way you would in the station: “Can I have the obs and a set of bloods?”

Examination

Say what you would examine and how; the examiner reports what you would find.

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