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A 4-day-old term boy, discharged home yesterday and feeding well until this morning, has vomited four times in six hours. The vomit is dark green. He passed mec…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 7-year-old boy is brought in by his mother, who has biopsy-proven coeliac disease, as does his older sister. He is well, on the 50th centile for height and we…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

A boy is born at 39 weeks weighing 2.5 kg to a woman with epilepsy who took a single antiepileptic drug throughout the pregnancy. He has a broad flat nasal brid…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche

A term girl weighing 2.6 kg is examined before discharge. The backs of both hands and both feet are puffy and doughy, and there is loose redundant skin over the…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

At the six-week check, the mother of a healthy breastfed girl says she is so tired that for the second half of most nights she brings the baby into her own bed.…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 16-year-old girl attends a Western Australian general practice alone with three days of lower abdominal pain and vaginal discharge. She is sexually active and…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 15-year-old boy is brought to a general practice by his exasperated mother. Over the past year he has argued about every household rule, dyed his hair, spends…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 16-year-old girl attends a Perth general practice on her own and asks for the contraceptive pill. She has been with her 17-year-old boyfriend for a year and t…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 14-month-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department with a scald to his left forearm and hand. He had been sitting in the bath and turned the hot t…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 4-year-old girl attends a general practice with her father for a pre-kindergarten check. Her weight is above the 97th centile and her body mass index has been…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 3-week-old girl is brought to a general practice by her mother, who is exhausted and believes her milk supply is failing. The baby was born at term weighing 3…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 13-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department with six weeks of ache in the left knee, worse after football and now making him limp. There has been n…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 44-year-old man is admitted under your team after a myocardial infarction. Genetic testing has confirmed familial hypercholesterolaemia and the lipid clinic h…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 14-year-old girl has had daily tiredness and central abdominal pain for eight months and has attended school on only nine days this term. Full blood count, in…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 15-year-old girl has had six episodes over three months in which she falls to the floor and her arms and legs thrash irregularly for fifteen to twenty minutes…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 7-year-old girl's teacher reports that her schoolwork has fallen away this year and that she "drifts off". Her mother says that twenty or thirty times a day s…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

An 8-year-old boy is brought in by his mother, who describes fourteen months of daily arguing with adults, deliberate refusal to follow instructions, blaming hi…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 9-year-old boy has primary nocturnal enuresis with no daytime urinary symptoms, normal growth, normal blood pressure and a normal urinalysis. An eight-week al…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 2-year-old boy attends with his mother after his childcare educator commented that he "plays on his own". He walks and runs well, uses about sixty single word…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 14-year-old boy is brought by his parents because he is the shortest in his class and has no signs of puberty. His height is on the 3rd centile and he has gro…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist