Results for “adrenal”

A 28-year-old man is stung by a bee in a hospital car park. In the emergency department he has generalised urticaria, audible wheeze and a blood pressure of 84/…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

You are the first doctor to reach a 68-year-old man found slumped in a chair in the day therapy unit. He does not respond to voice or to a firm shake, he makes…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 13-year-old boy weighing 52 kg develops widespread urticaria, a hoarse voice and wheeze about ten minutes after eating a satay skewer at a school camp. He is…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 46-year-old woman is admitted with two days of vomiting and lightheadedness. Her regular tablets are alendronate, esomeprazole and prednisolone, all of which…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 24-year-old man is brought to a regional emergency department after his motorcycle struck a guard rail. The ambulance officers report that he lost his output…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 68-year-old woman is admitted with fever and dysuria. Blood cultures were taken and she received gentamicin and amoxicillin within 40 minutes of arrival. She…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 63-year-old man wakes at 5 am with swelling of his lower lip and the left side of his tongue. There is no rash and nothing itches. His voice is normal, his ch…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 34-year-old woman arrives 20 minutes after eating a satay skewer at a food van. She has widespread weals, a hoarse voice and expiratory wheeze. Blood pressure…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 68-year-old man presents with two days of rigors and right flank pain and is confused on arrival. Temperature 38.8 °C, respiratory rate 26/min, heart rate 118…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 70 kg man has a 12 cm laceration across the extensor surface of his right forearm from a falling pane of glass. Tendon function through the full range of move…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 34-year-old bushwalker is winched out of a gully in the Stirling Range after a night in cold rain. He is unresponsive and pulseless. Cardiopulmonary resuscita…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 68-year-old woman having a computed tomography scan develops flushing, wheeze and hypotension eight minutes after the intravenous contrast injection. She take…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche

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…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · 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…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · 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…

Acute Care · 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…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · 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…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common

A 46-year-old man attends the clinic nine months after cardiac transplantation. He feels well, has no chest pain and walks four kilometres most days. He takes n…

Physiology · Foundations · middle twist

A 19-day-old boy has vomited after most feeds for the past week. He is 9 per cent below his birth weight, lethargic, with dry mucous membranes and cool peripher…

Physiology · Foundations · middle twist

A 5-month-old boy is brought to hospital with 2 days of nasal congestion, cough and reduced breastfeeds. He is alert but has subcostal recession and widespread…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common