Results for “tachycardia”
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A 62-year-old man has a regular broad-complex tachycardia at 190 beats per minute three hours after treatment for an acute myocardial infarction. He is consciou…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common
A 39-year-old man with bipolar disorder is brought to the emergency department one hour after becoming agitated and incoherent. His medicines are sertraline, tr…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common
A 59-year-old woman is admitted after vomiting for two days and taking sotalol for recurrent atrial fibrillation. She has several brief episodes of faintness as…
Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · common
A 24-year-old woman presents with abrupt pounding in her neck and mild breathlessness that began while she was sitting at work. She is alert, warm and normotens…
Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 34-year-old woman with asthma remains breathless in the emergency department after three nebulised doses of salbutamol and ipratropium and intravenous hydroco…
Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common
A 29-year-old man presents two days after running out of prescribed oxycodone, which he had been taking in increasing amounts for a year. He is yawning, restles…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common
A 34-year-old woman presents with anxiety, poor sleep, nausea and a sense that people are watching her. She stopped taking alprazolam 72 hours ago after using 6…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common
A 46-year-old man with longstanding alcohol dependence has eaten little during two weeks of vomiting. He is inattentive, walks with a broad-based gait and repea…
General Practice and Population Health · Clinical rotations · common
A 32-year-old man is found confused after ingesting an unknown number of amitriptyline tablets. He has a blood pressure of 86/54 mmHg, a pulse of 126/min and a…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common
A 48-year-old woman taking sotalol for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation has two brief episodes of collapse. The ECG monitor records recurrent bursts of polymorphi…
Emergency and Toxicology · Mechanisms of disease · common
A 72-year-old woman with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is admitted with worsening breathlessness. Her pulse is irregular at 118 beats per minute.…
Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 67-year-old man with a previous anterior myocardial infarction develops palpitations while being monitored in hospital. He is alert, has a blood pressure of 1…
Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · common
A 29-year-old man presents with palpitations and light-headedness. His pulse is irregular at 190 beats per minute and the blood pressure is 126/74 mmHg. The ECG…
Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · niche
A 28-year-old woman is brought in by ambulance 90 minutes after being found drowsy next to an empty box of amitriptyline. Her Glasgow Coma Scale score is 12, he…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common
A 26-year-old backpacker is snorkelling off Port Douglas in far north Queensland in December when she feels a mild sting on her forearm, leaving only faint redn…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common
A 34-year-old woman, gravida 3 para 2, presents at 34 weeks gestation with two hours of constant severe abdominal pain and a small amount of dark red vaginal bl…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common
A 15-month-old boy presents with two days of vomiting and frequent watery stools. He is alert but subdued, with dry lips, mildly sunken eyes, heart rate 148/min…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 74-year-old woman presents with severe pain in her left leg that began abruptly two hours ago while she was sitting watching television. She walks to the shop…
Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · common
A 19-year-old man is brought to a rural general practice, 45 minutes from the nearest hospital, with six hours of fever, vomiting and severe pain in his legs. H…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common
A 68-year-old man presents with 30 minutes of rapid palpitations and light-headedness. Three years ago he had a heart attack treated with a coronary artery sten…
Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · common