Results for “ARDS”

A 5-month-old girl is brought to the emergency department because her left thigh is swollen and she cries when it is moved. Her father says she rolled off a cou…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common

A local health district in western Sydney surveys its primary schools and finds that one in three children aged 5 to 12 years is above the healthy weight range,…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 3-year-old girl attends a rural general practice for the fourth time in six months, twice with minor bruises and twice with abdominal pain. Dry at night for a…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 4-year-old boy is brought to a Perth emergency department with a swollen, bruised left forearm. At triage his mother said he fell from a kitchen chair. When y…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A previously well 2-year-old boy has passed two large, dark red stools today. He has had no abdominal pain, has not drawn up his legs, has not vomited and has h…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 4-year-old girl with Dravet syndrome is brought in by ambulance with a generalised convulsion that started 20 minutes ago. Her parents gave buccal midazolam a…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

A two-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department 40 minutes after her mother saw her swallow an unknown number of the grandmother's paracetamol tablet…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A public health registrar is reviewing a local council's childhood injury prevention plan after a rise in emergency department presentations for household poiso…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 6-year-old girl weighing 20 kg is admitted with severe gastroenteritis. She was shocked on arrival and was given sodium chloride 0.9% 400 mL intravenously ove…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 3-year-old boy weighing 15 kg has had two days of profuse vomiting and diarrhoea. On arrival he was drowsy with cold mottled legs, capillary refill of five se…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 15-year-old boy with Crohn disease attends a routine clinic review with his mother. He has lost 4 kg in three months and has missed a third of school days thi…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common

A 6-year-old girl is referred because her teacher has noticed her stopping mid-sentence and staring for a few seconds, then carrying on as though nothing had ha…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 12-year-old Aboriginal girl from a remote community has been admitted to a tertiary hospital with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes. English is the family's fir…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 9-year-old girl with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes has been on the paediatric ward for eight hours receiving intravenous fluid and an insulin infusion for k…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

A 5-week-old boy is admitted after a fortnight of vomiting that now shoots across the change table after every feed. The vomit has never been green. He feeds hu…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 13-year-old boy is brought to a general practice with three weeks of aching in his left knee and a limp his football coach has noticed. He weighs 82 kg. There…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 2-year-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department at 3 am with two days of runny nose and a harsh barking cough. Forty minutes ago he was given dex…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

An 18-month-old girl is brought to the emergency department with two days of fever and irritability. She sits quietly on her mother's knee watching you, and sta…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 14-month-old girl has been crying, pulling at both ears and febrile for a day. She has had paracetamol, is drinking normally and is not vomiting. Temperature…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 2-year-old boy whose parents were born in Vietnam has a blood test before starting childcare. He drinks about 700 mL of cow milk a day and refuses meat. He is…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist