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A 7-year-old boy has had atopic dermatitis since infancy. Over two years his height has fallen from the 50th to the 10th centile, with weight falling in paralle…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 13-year-old girl attends a general practice in the first week of September. Every year from the first week of October until Christmas she has a blocked, itchy…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche

The bone marrow result for a 4-year-old girl admitted with pallor and bruising has confirmed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. You are to be present while the cons…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common

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 6-day-old term girl, home since day two and feeding well until this morning, is brought in mottled and lethargic. Heart rate is 186 per minute, respiratory ra…

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 7-day-old breastfed girl is admitted with a two-day history of poor feeding and vomiting. She is deeply jaundiced, lethargic and hypothermic, with a liver edg…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche

A boy was born at term to a woman with chronic hepatitis B infection. He was given hepatitis B immunoglobulin and monovalent hepatitis B vaccine within twelve h…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A healthy boy is born at term after an uncomplicated pregnancy. His mother takes no regular medicines. She tells the midwife she does not want him to have any i…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 4-week-old exclusively breastfed boy is brought to the emergency department because he is still yellow. He feeds hungrily and has gained 900 g since birth. Hi…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A girl born at 38 weeks weighs 2.2 kg and her head circumference is well below the third centile. Scattered purple-red spots over the trunk do not blanch, and t…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A five-week-old exclusively breastfed boy is brought to the general practitioner because he is still yellow. He was born at term weighing 3.4 kg and now weighs…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A boy is born at 39 weeks by normal vaginal birth and cries immediately. He is dried, weighed and then bathed by a student midwife before being wrapped and plac…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 16-year-old girl with focal epilepsy attends a general practice alone and asks for contraception. She has been seizure-free for two years on carbamazepine and…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 15-year-old boy attends a bulk-billing general practice alone for a sports injury certificate. You have completed a psychosocial screen covering home, school,…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 16-year-old girl with anorexia nervosa is reviewed in an outpatient eating disorder clinic. Over the past six weeks her weight has fallen 3 kg to 42 kg; she i…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

A 13-year-old girl attends with her mother for a check before she starts high school sport. Her mother's cousin wore a spinal brace as a teenager, and she asks…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

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 6-week-old boy is brought to a general practice for a routine check. He was born at term weighing 3.2 kg and now weighs 4.0 kg. He is formula fed, taking 90 m…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 4-month-old girl with a large ventricular septal defect is reviewed before surgical repair. She breastfeeds every two hours but takes 40 minutes each time, sw…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist