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250 free practice questions at the pre-internship stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 28-year-old man jumped from a first-floor window to escape a house fire and has blistered burns over about 30% of his body surface. Forty-five minutes after t…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 24-year-old man is brought in by ambulance after his motorcycle struck a guardrail. His left leg is partly amputated below the knee and bright blood is wellin…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · common
A 71-year-old woman who speaks only Vietnamese is ready to leave the emergency department after chest pain with normal troponin results. She is to start a new m…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · common
A 9-year-old girl is brought to a Western Australian emergency department by her mother with three weeks of intermittent abdominal pain. While her mother is out…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 63-year-old man presents 30 hours after a garden fork went through his boot into the sole of his foot while he was turning manure. The puncture is 2 cm deep a…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 24-year-old woman is brought in by ambulance after being found unrousable at home. She had swallowed six of her flatmate's morphine tablets, which he takes tw…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 23-year-old woman is medically cleared six hours after taking 20 of her flatmate's quetiapine tablets at the end of a relationship. She says she regrets it, i…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 74-year-old woman is being discharged from the emergency department after a fall at home with an undisplaced pubic ramus fracture on radiography. She can weig…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
The mother of a 5-year-old girl admitted to a Perth public hospital with gastroenteritis tells the bedside nurse that her daughter is going flat and is not hers…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 74-year-old man collapses in a shopping centre and is brought to the emergency department in cardiac arrest. Resuscitation is unsuccessful and he is declared…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
An 89-year-old man with advanced dementia is in the emergency department with aspiration pneumonia. He cannot retain or weigh information about treatment. He ma…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 68-year-old woman is brought to a Perth emergency department unconscious after her neighbour found her with empty amitriptyline packets and a note. Her airway…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 58-year-old man dies in the resuscitation bay after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. His wife and adult daughter have been waiting in the relatives room wit…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
An 82-year-old woman with advanced dementia is admitted to a Perth hospital with a fractured neck of femur. She cannot repeat back or weigh up any part of the d…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 34-year-old man is brought to a Perth emergency department with a stab wound to the thigh. He is alert, gives a clear account of the assault, and knows the da…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 76-year-old man taking ramipril and spironolactone attends with three days of vomiting and increasing lethargy. He is drowsy but rousable. Pulse is 42/min and…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · common
A 63-year-old man with renal colic is receiving morphine 2.5 mg intravenously every 5 minutes on your instruction. He has now had 12.5 mg and says the pain has…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 5-year-old boy is pulled from a backyard swimming pool in Mandurah after an unknown time under the water. He is limp and blue and is not breathing normally. H…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 34-year-old bushwalker is winched out of a gully in the Stirling Range after a night in cold rain. He is unresponsive and pulseless. Cardiopulmonary resuscita…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 19-year-old man walks into a small country hospital 40 minutes after being bitten on the right calf by a snake he disturbed while moving hay bales. A bystande…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist