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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 girl born at 36 weeks weighing 2050 g is three hours old and has fed twice at the breast. She becomes jittery with a weak high-pitched cry, and then has an ep…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
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 boy born at 38 weeks is 44 hours old on the postnatal ward. His mother attends a treatment program for a daily supervised dose of buprenorphine and reports no…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A girl born at 38 weeks weighs 2.2 kg and her head circumference is well below the third centile. Scattered purple-red spots over the trunk do not blanch, and t…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A boy is born at 39 weeks after spontaneous labour. The membranes ruptured 26 hours before birth and his mother had a temperature of 38.4 degrees during labour;…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A five-week-old exclusively breastfed boy is brought to the general practitioner because he is still yellow. He was born at term weighing 3.4 kg and now weighs…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 32-year-old woman attends her general practitioner for the six-week postnatal check with her healthy son. She says she is coping, sleeping when he sleeps and…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
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 woman who has had no antenatal care presents in advanced labour and gives birth to a boy weighing 2350 g. She is unsure of her dates and there has been no ult…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A boy born at 39 weeks by spontaneous vaginal birth is 60 hours old. He has a high-pitched cry, tremors when he is undressed, sneezes repeatedly and takes the b…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A woman whose vaginal-rectal swab at 36 weeks grew group B streptococcus labours spontaneously at 39 weeks and 4 days. Her membranes rupture six hours before bi…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A term boy is 32 hours old and was recorded as normal at the newborn check. He now feeds slowly and tires, is mottled and cool to the knees, and his capillary r…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
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 15-year-old boy attends the renal clinic two years after a living-donor kidney transplant. He takes tacrolimus, mycophenolate and low-dose prednisolone daily,…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 16-year-old girl attends her general practice for a routine health check required before a school leadership camp. She is well, her growth is on the 50th cent…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 15-year-old boy is being cleared to play club rugby. He has never had chest pain, palpitations, breathlessness out of proportion to exertion or blackouts, and…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 16-year-old netballer attends for a pre-participation examination. She is asymptomatic. The femoral pulses are strong and synchronous with the radial pulses.…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist