Results for “cough”

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

A 46-year-old man is brought from a house fire with burns to his face and upper chest. He is awake, has soot around his mouth and is coughing; initially his voi…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 4-year-old child in a childcare centre has had paroxysmal coughing with post-tussive vomiting for 12 days, and PCR has detected Bordetella pertussis. He is ot…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 79-year-old woman with a previous stroke develops fever, cough and a new right lower-zone infiltrate 36 hours after vomiting during a meal. She is alert, has…

Infectious Diseases · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 72-year-old man is admitted with pneumonia after three days of fever, cough and increasing breathlessness. He is alert, but his respiratory rate is 34/min and…

Infectious Diseases · Clinical rotations · common

A 68-year-old man presents with a two-day history of fever, productive cough and pleuritic chest pain. He is alert, has a respiratory rate of 32/min, blood pres…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common

A 34-year-old schoolteacher presents with three weeks of cough. Her illness began with a runny nose and mild sore throat, after which she developed bouts of sev…

Infectious Diseases · Clinical rotations · common

A 24-year-old man presents with four days of fever, a runny nose, red watery eyes and a dry cough, ten days after returning from Bali. This morning a blotchy re…

Ethics and Professional Practice · Pre-internship · common

A 28-year-old man with schizophrenia that failed to respond to two previous antipsychotics has been taking clozapine for four months with good effect. He presen…

Psychiatry and Mental Health · Clinical rotations · common

A 3-year-old boy presents with six days of fever above 39°C that has persisted despite regular paracetamol; he is miserable and difficult to console. Both eyes…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

An 18-month-old boy wakes at 2 am with a harsh, barking cough and noisy breathing and is brought to the emergency department. He has had a runny nose for two da…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 9-month-old girl is brought to the emergency department with three days of runny nose and moist cough, and one day of fast, noisy breathing. She is taking abo…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 34-year-old man presents with five days of fever, drenching sweats, severe headache behind the eyes and aching muscles. He started work at a rural Queensland…

General Practice and Population Health · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 66-year-old man is five days after an ultra-low anterior resection for rectal cancer and had initially been recovering well. Overnight he developed an irregul…

Surgery and Perioperative Care · Clinical rotations · common

A 24-year-old woman with asthma since childhood attends for review. Her only treatment is a salbutamol inhaler, which she now uses three to four times a week fo…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 61-year-old man presents with four days of fever, a dry cough and increasing breathlessness. His wife reports he has been muddled since yesterday and has pass…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common

A 28-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with two days of right-sided chest pain that is worse on deep inspiration. She takes a combined oral co…

Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · common

A 67-year-old man has recurrent sinusitis, otitis and a persistent cough with occasional blood-streaked sputum. Urinalysis shows dysmorphic red cells and red-ce…

Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 64-year-old man presents with a right-sided groin bulge that becomes more prominent on coughing. He reports no pain and has no difficulty with daily activitie…

Year 4 · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 62-year-old man presents with a bulge in his right groin that becomes more prominent when he coughs and reduces spontaneously when lying down. On examination,…

Year 4 · Foundations · middle twist