Acute Care
62 free practice questions at the clinical rotations stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
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…
Clinical rotations · common
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…
Clinical rotations · common
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…
Clinical rotations · common
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…
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…
Clinical rotations · common
A 58-year-old man walks up to the triage desk of a metropolitan emergency department. He says a heavy tightness spread across the front of his chest while he wa…
Clinical rotations · common
An 84-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department after tripping on a rug at home. Radiographs of her wrist and hip show no fracture. She has not been…
Clinical rotations · common
A 58-year-old man is treated in the emergency department for a Colles fracture sustained tripping over a gutter. He smokes 25 cigarettes a day and lights the fi…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 41-year-old bricklayer attends the emergency department after cutting his forearm on a broken glass door at home. The wound is cleaned and sutured. On routine…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 6-year-old boy fell from a trampoline five hours ago onto grass. He cried immediately and did not lose consciousness. He vomited once at the scene and not sin…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man walks into a Perth emergency department at 1900 hours saying he has had heavy central chest pain radiating to his jaw for the past 40 minutes.…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
An intern covering a Perth hospital's wards and its residential aged care liaison service is asked about five deaths in one afternoon. All five are Western Aust…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 61-year-old woman with metastatic pancreatic cancer is in the emergency department short-stay unit with vomiting. She already knows her disease is incurable.…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 26-year-old man is brought in after coming off a motorcycle at speed. He has an anterior dislocation of the left shoulder and fractures of the left pubic rami…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 71-year-old woman attends the emergency department with 10 hours of vomiting that began after a family barbecue. She has Parkinson disease treated with levodo…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 16-year-old boy collapses at the finish of a school cross-country race in Perth on a 39-degree day. He is confused, cannot say where he is, and is unsteady wh…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man is brought to the surf club first aid room at a Perth beach in February. Ten minutes ago, while swimming, he felt sudden severe burning pain i…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 62-year-old man wakes at 5 am with swelling of his lips and tongue that has worsened over three hours. He ate prawns and drank a glass of wine at a restaurant…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 62-year-old man collapses in the emergency department waiting room. He is pulseless and the monitor shows ventricular fibrillation. Chest compressions are in…
Clinical rotations · common
A 24-year-old man is brought in after his motorcycle struck a fence post. He opens his eyes to pain, makes incomprehensible sounds and localises with his right…
Clinical rotations · middle twist