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A 4-year-old girl has had bruises on her shins and trunk for three weeks. Her mother says she has become pale, tires on the walk to kindergarten and asks to be…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 16-month-old girl who arrived in Australia from overseas six months ago is brought to a general practice because she is not gaining weight. Her weight has fal…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 5-week-old boy is admitted after a fortnight of vomiting that now shoots across the change table after every feed. The vomit has never been green. He feeds hu…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 7-month-old girl has had six hours of episodes in which she suddenly screams, draws her knees up and stiffens for a minute or two, then lies pale and floppy u…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 13-year-old boy is brought to a general practice with three weeks of aching in his left knee and a limp his football coach has noticed. He weighs 82 kg. There…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 22-day-old boy born at term is brought to a rural emergency department because he felt hot. His rectal temperature is 38.4 degrees Celsius. He has fed normall…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 2-year-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department at 3 am with two days of runny nose and a harsh barking cough. Forty minutes ago he was given dex…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 10-week-old girl is brought to the emergency department by both parents with a bruise on the left cheek and a smaller one over the left ear. Her father says h…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
An 18-month-old girl is brought to the emergency department with two days of fever and irritability. She sits quietly on her mother's knee watching you, and sta…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 5-month-old ex-term boy is on day four of bronchiolitis. Over the past 24 hours he has taken about 40 per cent of his usual milk and had two wet nappies. Resp…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 3-year-old girl has had fever and cough for two days. She is alert, sitting up and drinking, and her mother has a car and lives ten minutes from the hospital.…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 14-month-old girl has been crying, pulling at both ears and febrile for a day. She has had paracetamol, is drinking normally and is not vomiting. Temperature…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 7-month-old boy has had a runny nose for three days and is now coughing, wheezing and breathing fast. This is his first such illness. Respiratory rate is 58 p…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 2-year-old boy brought in at 2 am has a harsh barking cough and a hoarse cry. His general practitioner gave him prednisolone 1 mg/kg nine hours ago and he set…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 3-year-old boy has had a fever above 39 degrees Celsius for six days despite regular paracetamol. Both eyes are red without any discharge or crusting. His lip…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 3-year-old girl who arrived from Ethiopia six months ago is screened after her grandmother, who shares the house, was diagnosed with smear-positive pulmonary…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 2-year-old boy whose parents were born in Vietnam has a blood test before starting childcare. He drinks about 700 mL of cow milk a day and refuses meat. He is…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 6-day-old term girl, home since day two and feeding well until this morning, is brought in mottled and lethargic. Heart rate is 186 per minute, respiratory ra…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 3-year-old girl is brought in after her mother felt a lump in her tummy while bathing her. She is thriving, plays normally, and has had no fever, weight loss…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 4-year-old girl has refused to walk since yesterday and cries whenever her right leg is moved. Temperature is 38.9 degrees Celsius and heart rate 148 per minu…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist