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465 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 68-year-old man presents with two days of rigors and right flank pain and is confused on arrival. Temperature 38.8 °C, respiratory rate 26/min, heart rate 118…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 19-year-old woman walks into a metropolitan emergency department with her sister ninety minutes after swallowing thirty modified-release paracetamol tablets.…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 19-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department by her flatmate two hours after swallowing a handful of paracetamol tablets following an argument. Sh…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · niche
You are the intern in a Western Australian emergency department. A 3-year-old girl was triaged two hours ago with fever and vomiting. The paediatric registrar r…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 52-year-old man who lives alone is found drowsy on his kitchen floor and brought in by ambulance. He drinks heavily, is visibly thin, and his neighbour says h…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 34-year-old man is brought to the emergency department six hours after his general practitioner increased his sertraline and added tramadol for back pain. He…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 26-year-old woman is brought in three hours after taking about 40 alprazolam tablets with wine. She sleeps but rouses to a loud voice, gags on an oropharyngea…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
An 18-year-old woman took 30 paracetamol tablets after her relationship ended. She has completed acetylcysteine; at 20 hours her alanine aminotransferase is nor…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 46-year-old man who drinks a bottle of spirits most days has vomited for three days and eaten nothing; he stopped drinking two days ago. He is alert, with epi…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · niche
A 74-year-old man on the orthopaedic ward is found drowsy six hours after his first dose of slow-release oxycodone for a fractured neck of femur. He rouses brie…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 17-year-old girl weighing 55 kg says she swallowed 45 tablets of immediate-release paracetamol 500 mg about ten hours ago after an argument with her partner.…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 19-year-old man is brought in by friends four hours after a party. He is agitated, mumbles continuously and plucks at the bedclothes, and does not know where…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 70 kg man has a 12 cm laceration across the extensor surface of his right forearm from a falling pane of glass. Tendon function through the full range of move…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 22-year-old man stood on a garden fork while digging; a tine passed through his boot into the sole of his right foot. The wound is a 3 cm deep puncture with s…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 7-year-old girl fell from a scooter onto her outstretched hand yesterday. Her wrist is swollen and tender about 2 cm proximal to the wrist crease, she is usin…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 24-year-old woman rolled her right ankle landing awkwardly at netball two hours ago. She took four steps immediately afterwards and can take four steps now, l…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
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 34-year-old man is brought in after a petrol fire in a shed. The skin over the whole front of his chest and abdomen is blistered, moist and painful. His right…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 32-year-old woman is brought in after her car left the road and struck a tree at speed. She is alert and cold to touch. Blood pressure 84/52 mmHg, pulse 126/m…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
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