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You are the intern on a Perth paediatric ward. Over three weeks you admit four toddlers from the same remote community with extensive impetigo, and a fifth chil…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 9-day-old term baby is brought to a rural emergency department pale, mottled and grunting after a day of poor feeding. He is afebrile. His heart rate is 190 a…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

A 10-year-old boy weighing 32 kg is admitted to the ward for observation after an appendicectomy. He is comfortable, normotensive and well perfused, has not vom…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 2-year-old girl has had 24 hours of vomiting and watery diarrhoea. She is alert and irritable, her mucous membranes are dry, her father thinks her eyes look s…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 5-week-old boy has vomited after feeds for three weeks. The milk now comes back forcefully enough to reach the floor, and he immediately wants to feed again.…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 3-year-old boy is seen in general practice with a two-day blanching viral rash and is otherwise well. He is eating, playing and having his usual number of wet…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

An 8-year-old girl with chronic kidney disease is brought in vomiting after missing two dialysis sessions. She is alert and her blood pressure is 128/78 mmHg. S…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common

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 5-year-old boy weighing 20 kg is admitted with bacterial meningitis. He is alert, his peripheries are warm with capillary refill under two seconds, and his mu…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

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

A 7-month-old boy has had a runny nose for three days and is now coughing, wheezing and breathing fast. This is his first such illness. Respiratory rate is 58 p…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 2-year-old boy brought in at 2 am has a harsh barking cough and a hoarse cry. His general practitioner gave him prednisolone 1 mg/kg nine hours ago and he set…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 3-year-old girl is brought in after her mother felt a lump in her tummy while bathing her. She is thriving, plays normally, and has had no fever, weight loss…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 15-year-old boy attends the renal clinic two years after a living-donor kidney transplant. He takes tacrolimus, mycophenolate and low-dose prednisolone daily,…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 15-year-old girl has never had a period. Her breasts and pubic hair have been fully developed and unchanged for about a year, and she has grown 1 cm in the pa…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

A 14-year-old boy is brought in by both parents, who are worried that he is the shortest in his year and has not started to change. His height has followed the…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche

A 7-year-old girl is brought to a general practice because over six months she has developed underarm odour and a few dark hairs in the pubic area. Her mother i…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 13-year-old boy who received a kidney transplant two years ago attends the renal clinic. He takes tacrolimus and mycophenolate and his graft function is stabl…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

A 6-month-old boy is brought to a general practice for his immunisations. He has just started pureed vegetables and rice cereal. His 4-year-old sister has a pea…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 9-year-old boy is referred to a paediatric clinic because his weight is above the 97th centile. Both parents are overweight, he spends most of his free time o…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist