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A 74-year-old woman is on day 4 after an open right hemicolectomy. Sodium chloride 0.9% 1 L eight-hourly, charted in the emergency department before her operati…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · common
A 71-year-old man is on day 2 after a Hartmann procedure for perforated diverticulitis. He remains nil by mouth and his nasogastric tube has drained 1400 mL in…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 58-year-old man was admitted 36 hours ago with severe acute pancreatitis and has been given 7 litres of sodium chloride 0.9%. He is alert and normotensive, is…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 4-year-old girl has had three days of watery diarrhoea and vomiting. She is irritable with dry mucous membranes and reduced urine output; her hands are warm,…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A well 24-year-old woman has routine blood tests before starting a combined oral contraceptive. She takes no medication and her blood pressure is 112/70 mmHg. B…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man is receiving intravenous vancomycin for a prosthetic joint infection through a 20 gauge cannula in the dorsum of the left hand. Six hours into…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · 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 46-year-old man with osteoarthritis is brought in three hours after taking twenty-four modified-release paracetamol tablets, each 665 mg, at one sitting. He w…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · niche
A 76-year-old man taking ramipril and spironolactone attends with three days of vomiting and increasing lethargy. He is drowsy but rousable. Pulse is 42/min and…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · common
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 5-year-old girl weighing 20 kg is admitted with right lower lobe pneumonia. She is febrile at 38.9 degrees Celsius, saturating 93% on 2 litres per minute of o…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 22-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department 30 minutes after an argument at home, breathing rapidly and deeply. She complains of tingling around…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man is freed after six hours trapped beneath a collapsed brick wall. He is alert, and both thighs are swollen and tender. He reports tingling in b…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 46-year-old labourer is freed after six hours trapped beneath a collapsed brick wall. Both thighs are tense, swollen and tender, and he cannot move his toes.…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 22-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department after 30 minutes of rapid, deep breathing that began during an argument. She reports tingling around…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man has passed up to twelve watery stools a day for five days after returning from a trek in Nepal. He is thirsty and weak. His pulse is 118/min a…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man has vomited large volumes each day for nine days, bringing up food eaten the day before. The vomitus contains no bile. He has lost 5 kg, his m…
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 32-year-old woman has passed large volumes of pale urine for four months and drinks about eight litres of water each day, having decided this would improve he…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 7-year-old boy has passed large volumes of urine and craved salty food since infancy, and he is small for his age. His blood pressure is 92/56 mmHg and he has…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist