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A 5-month-old ex-term boy is on day four of bronchiolitis. Over the past 24 hours he has taken about 40 per cent of his usual milk and had two wet nappies. Resp…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 3-year-old girl has had fever and cough for two days. She is alert, sitting up and drinking, and her mother has a car and lives ten minutes from the hospital.…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
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 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 boy born at 38 weeks is hypotonic and feeds slowly. Rapid chromosome testing has confirmed trisomy 21. He is pink in air with a normal respiratory rate, the p…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A woman in preterm labour at 29 weeks is given betamethasone and transferred to a tertiary centre. Antenatal ultrasound and screening have all been normal and t…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A boy is born at 39 weeks weighing 4450 g to a woman whose gestational diabetes required insulin from 28 weeks. The birth was complicated by shoulder dystocia r…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A boy born at 38 weeks is 44 hours old on the postnatal ward. His mother attends a treatment program for a daily supervised dose of buprenorphine and reports no…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A boy is born at 39 weeks after spontaneous labour. The membranes ruptured 26 hours before birth and his mother had a temperature of 38.4 degrees during labour;…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A woman arrives at a remote clinic in labour, having had no antenatal care and no dating ultrasound. She gives birth to a girl weighing 1980 g who cries at birt…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A woman whose vaginal-rectal swab at 36 weeks grew group B streptococcus labours spontaneously at 39 weeks and 4 days. Her membranes rupture six hours before bi…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · 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 netballer attends for a pre-participation examination. She is asymptomatic. The femoral pulses are strong and synchronous with the radial pulses.…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 17-year-old man with cystic fibrosis has attended the same paediatric respiratory clinic since infancy and will move to the adult service next year. His mothe…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 6-year-old boy with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection is admitted to a paediatric ward. Over an hour his oxygen saturation falls to 88 per cent on 6 L…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 9-week-old girl is brought to a regional emergency department with three weeks of cough. Her mother describes bouts of coughing that leave her red in the face…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 12-month-old girl is brought to a general practice in Perth for her scheduled immunisations, which include measles-mumps-rubella and meningococcal ACWY vaccin…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 12-year-old Aboriginal boy is seen at a community clinic for a sports form. His body mass index is well above the 95th centile for age. His mother mentions th…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
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