Common
The decision you make weekly on the ward. 494 questions.
A 5-month-old girl is brought to the emergency department because her left thigh is swollen and she cries when it is moved. Her father says she rolled off a cou…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
You are a general practice registrar in a regional town of 6,000 people. Over six weeks the public health unit has confirmed seven cases of measles, four of the…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 6-year-old girl attends a general practice with her aunt for a rash. While her aunt is out of the room collecting a prescription, the girl says, without any p…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 3-year-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department 30 minutes after being carried out of a house fire. There is soot around his nostrils and on his…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
You are working in a busy regional emergency department on a winter evening. Five children are waiting and the nurse in charge asks which one should be brought…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
At a six-week check, the mother of a healthy term baby says he brings up milk after most feeds and seems more settled when he is not flat on his back. Her own m…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
An 18-month-old boy is carried into the emergency department floppy and unrousable. He has vomited several times over the past day and has refused food since ye…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 15-year-old girl swallowed twelve of her mother's ibuprofen tablets after a break-up and is now six hours post-ingestion. She is asymptomatic, her observation…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 15-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department by her mother two hours after swallowing a handful of tablets during an argument. She says she took on…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A mother telephones her general practice mid-morning. Her two-year-old daughter has been found in the laundry sitting beside an open bottle of a garden product,…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A three-year-old boy weighing 15 kg is brought to the emergency department 90 minutes after his parents found him with an open bottle of perfume containing 60%…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
An Australian poisons information centre is reviewing the 4200 calls it took last year about children younger than 16 years, so that it can direct a prevention…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 14-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department by her mother three hours after being found crying in her bedroom beside an empty packet of ibuprofen…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
You are the resident covering an after-hours paediatric telephone line. The mother of a two-year-old boy rings about his second day of gastroenteritis. He was r…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 14-month-old girl is brought to a rural general practice with three days of watery diarrhoea and vomiting. She is alert and playing, her lips are dry, her cap…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 3-year-old girl weighing 14 kg is admitted with a fractured femur and placed in traction. She is comfortable on regular analgesia, well perfused, has moist mu…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 2-year-old girl has had 24 hours of vomiting and watery diarrhoea. She is alert and irritable, her mucous membranes are dry, her father thinks her eyes look s…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
An 8-year-old girl with chronic kidney disease is brought in vomiting after missing two dialysis sessions. She is alert and her blood pressure is 128/78 mmHg. S…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
An 11-month-old boy weighing 10 kg has had 36 hours of watery diarrhoea and vomiting. He lies quietly in his mother's arms and opens his eyes when spoken to. Hi…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 3-year-old girl has a red bulging left tympanic membrane. She is afebrile, has had no ear discharge, and is playing in the waiting room. She is not Aboriginal…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common