Acute Care
89 free practice questions at the pre-internship stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 22-year-old man is brought in 20 minutes after eating a satay skewer at a food van. On arrival he had widespread welts, audible wheeze and a blood pressure of…
Pre-internship · middle twist
An 81-year-old woman was brought from a residential aged care facility two hours ago with fever and dysuria; her observations were normal at triage and she was…
Pre-internship · middle twist
You are the intern on an evening shift at a public hospital in Perth. A 3-year-old boy was admitted this morning with a febrile illness. His mother has told the…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 79-year-old woman is brought in drowsy and clammy after two episodes of collapse at home. The monitor shows complete heart block with a ventricular rate of 34…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 58-year-old man had a witnessed collapse at a shopping centre. Bystanders started compressions, ambulance officers delivered one shock, and spontaneous circul…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 4-year-old boy weighing 16 kg has had profuse watery diarrhoea and vomiting for three days and has not passed urine since yesterday. In the emergency departme…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 63-year-old man with two hours of chest pain has 3 mm of ST elevation in leads II, III and aVF. He is alert but cold and clammy. Pulse is 52 beats per minute…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 5-year-old girl weighing 20 kg is admitted with right lower lobe pneumonia. She is febrile at 38.9 degrees Celsius, saturating 93% on 2 litres per minute of o…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 71-year-old man noticed slurred speech 90 minutes ago while watching television and his wife drove him straight in. He speaks with a mild slur that is fully i…
Pre-internship · niche