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At 2 am you are the intern who admits a 2-year-old girl with a spiral fracture of the humeral shaft and bruising over the upper arm and back, for which her pare…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 4-year-old boy is brought to a Perth emergency department with a swollen, bruised left forearm. At triage his mother said he fell from a kitchen chair. When y…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 22-month-old boy is brought to the emergency department with scalds to both feet and lower legs. His mother says he climbed into the bath alone while she answ…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
A 2-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department by her father after falling from a play structure onto grass. She is walking, playing and interactive,…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
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
You are discharging a 5-week-old boy after an admission with bronchiolitis. His mother smokes ten cigarettes a day outdoors. She tells you she is so exhausted t…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
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
A 9-day-old term baby is brought to a rural emergency department pale, mottled and grunting after a day of poor feeding. He is afebrile. His heart rate is 190 a…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
A previously well 2-year-old boy has passed two large, dark red stools today. He has had no abdominal pain, has not drawn up his legs, has not vomited and has h…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
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 4-year-old girl with Dravet syndrome is brought in by ambulance with a generalised convulsion that started 20 minutes ago. Her parents gave buccal midazolam a…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
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 3-year-old girl weighing 15 kg is brought in one hour after swallowing tablets from her mother's iron bottle. Each tablet contains 65 mg of elemental iron and…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 2-year-old boy weighing 13 kg is brought to the emergency department 40 minutes after his mother found him beside her open bottle of iron tablets, with an ora…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A father telephones the emergency department. Twenty minutes ago he found his 20-month-old daughter with the back of the television remote prised open and one o…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A mother brings her 18-month-old son to the general practice for a routine check. Her own mother has just moved in and keeps her tablets in a weekly pill organi…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
Several people are brought to a metropolitan emergency department after a chemical was deliberately released in a shopping centre. A six-year-old girl weighing…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
An 18-month-old boy is brought to a rural emergency department after being found in a farm shed beside a spilt container, with his clothing wet. He is drowsy bu…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist