Common
The decision you make weekly on the ward. 494 questions.
You examine a 2-day-old girl before discharge from the postnatal ward. She was born by caesarean section at 38 weeks for persistent breech presentation and is h…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A woman in preterm labour at 29 weeks is given betamethasone and transferred to a tertiary centre. Antenatal ultrasound and screening have all been normal and t…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A boy is born at 39 weeks weighing 4450 g to a woman whose gestational diabetes required insulin from 28 weeks. The birth was complicated by shoulder dystocia r…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 29-year-old woman brings her six-week-old first baby to the general practice for his immunisations. Asked how she is, she says she has felt flat since about t…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A woman arrives at a remote clinic in labour, having had no antenatal care and no dating ultrasound. She gives birth to a girl weighing 1980 g who cries at birt…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A boy is born at 39 weeks by normal vaginal birth and cries immediately. He is dried, weighed and then bathed by a student midwife before being wrapped and plac…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 16-year-old girl attends a suburban general practice with her mother because of headaches over three months. Examination, including fundoscopy and blood press…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 15-year-old boy is brought to a general practice by his exasperated mother. Over the past year he has argued about every household rule, dyed his hair, spends…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 14-year-old girl who has had type 1 diabetes since she was eight is reviewed in the paediatric diabetes clinic. Her glycated haemoglobin has risen over twelve…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
You have been asked to speak about staying safe to Year 11 and 12 students at a metropolitan Western Australian high school. So that the talk targets the bigges…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 15-year-old girl in Year 10 at a Perth high school attends with her mother for treatment of acne. You spend part of the consultation with her alone and explai…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 16-year-old girl attends a Perth general practice on her own and asks for the contraceptive pill. She has been with her 17-year-old boyfriend for a year and t…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 6-year-old boy with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection is admitted to a paediatric ward. Over an hour his oxygen saturation falls to 88 per cent on 6 L…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 16-year-old girl asks you to sign a clearance form for state-level netball. Twice this year she has collapsed without warning, once in the third quarter of a…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 4-year-old girl is brought to a Perth general practice by her mother and her mother's partner because of six months of intermittent abdominal pain. She has mi…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 6-month-old boy is brought to a general practice for his immunisations. He has just started pureed vegetables and rice cereal. His 4-year-old sister has a pea…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 6-week-old boy is brought to a general practice for a routine check. He was born at term weighing 3.2 kg and now weighs 4.0 kg. He is formula fed, taking 90 m…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 2-year-old girl is brought to a general practice because she is pale and always tired. Her weight has drifted from the 50th to the 10th centile over the past…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 29-year-old woman is seen on day four after an uncomplicated vaginal birth. Both breasts are firm, hot and uncomfortable, the skin is shiny, and the areolae a…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 15-year-old girl attends a general practice with her mother because of four months of tiredness and a 6 kg weight loss. You explain that you see young people…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common