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465 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 31-year-old man is intubated in the emergency department after falling from a roof and is transferred to the intensive care unit. Sedation has been withheld f…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 58-year-old man is found collapsed at home and brought to the emergency department. He does not respond when his name is called loudly and does not open his e…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 24-year-old woman is admitted with an exacerbation of asthma. After an hour of nebulised salbutamol and ipratropium and oral prednisolone she is speaking in f…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 63-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes presents with two days of vomiting and upper abdominal pain, during which she has eaten almost nothing. She takes metfo…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 74-year-old woman is on day 4 after an open right hemicolectomy. Sodium chloride 0.9% 1 L eight-hourly, charted in the emergency department before her operati…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · common
A 70 kg man is brought to the emergency department three hours after his clothing caught fire at a campsite. He has deep burns covering 40% of his total body su…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 68-year-old woman weighing 65 kg is in the emergency department with urinary sepsis. Intravenous antibiotics were given within 30 minutes of arrival and she h…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 71-year-old man is on day 2 after a Hartmann procedure for perforated diverticulitis. He remains nil by mouth and his nasogastric tube has drained 1400 mL in…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 58-year-old man was admitted 36 hours ago with severe acute pancreatitis and has been given 7 litres of sodium chloride 0.9%. He is alert and normotensive, is…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 4-year-old girl has had three days of watery diarrhoea and vomiting. She is irritable with dry mucous membranes and reduced urine output; her hands are warm,…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
You are the intern asked to collect a group and hold sample from a 68-year-old man before an elective hip replacement. When you arrive the ward clerk hands you…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · common
A well 24-year-old woman has routine blood tests before starting a combined oral contraceptive. She takes no medication and her blood pressure is 112/70 mmHg. B…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man is receiving intravenous vancomycin for a prosthetic joint infection through a 20 gauge cannula in the dorsum of the left hand. Six hours into…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 78-year-old woman is admitted overnight for observation after a mechanical fall. She is eating and drinking, takes only oral medications, and no intravenous t…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · common
A 62-year-old man collapses in a hospital foyer and is found to be in ventricular fibrillation. Compressions have been continuous, adrenaline 1 mg has been give…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 3-year-old boy is pulled unresponsive from a community swimming pool. He is not breathing normally and a lifeguard has started chest compressions while an amb…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 54-year-old man presents to a metropolitan hospital with a catheter laboratory after seventy minutes of central chest pain, which is continuing. His blood pre…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 66-year-old man has had ninety minutes of central chest pain with sweating. His electrocardiogram shows 3 mm ST elevation in leads II, III and aVF with ST dep…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 74-year-old man on a surgical ward reports palpitations on the second day after a right hemicolectomy. He is alert and comfortable, with a blood pressure of 1…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 68-year-old woman is brought in from a residential aged care facility with fever and new confusion. Her temperature is 38.9 degrees Celsius, blood pressure 82…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist