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A 58-year-old man is brought to a regional emergency department after threatening a neighbour with a length of timber. He is shouting, will not sit, and has twi…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 58-year-old man was admitted three and a half days ago after a fall from a ladder; his wife said he drinks nightly at the club. He was settled and oriented fo…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
You are the intern covering the orthopaedic ward at 2 am. A 79-year-old man, two days after hemiarthroplasty for a fractured neck of femur, is climbing over the…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 76-year-old man with long-standing asthma has needed his reliever most nights for six weeks and now wakes twice a night wheezing. His preventer, budesonide wi…
Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 26-year-old primary school teacher has had a red, watering right eye for four days; the left eye became red two days ago. She had a sore throat the week befor…
Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · common
A 7-year-old boy is ready to leave a Perth emergency department six hours after a moderate asthma flare-up. He has had salbutamol by spacer and a first dose of…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
You are the intern covering a paediatric ward at a Perth public hospital at 2100. The mother of a 6-year-old boy admitted this morning with fever and vomiting s…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 24-year-old woman is admitted with an exacerbation of asthma. After an hour of nebulised salbutamol and ipratropium and oral prednisolone she is speaking in f…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 68-year-old woman weighing 65 kg is in the emergency department with urinary sepsis. Intravenous antibiotics were given within 30 minutes of arrival and she h…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 3-year-old boy is pulled unresponsive from a community swimming pool. He is not breathing normally and a lifeguard has started chest compressions while an amb…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 68-year-old woman is brought in from a residential aged care facility with fever and new confusion. Her temperature is 38.9 degrees Celsius, blood pressure 82…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 28-year-old man is stung by a bee in a hospital car park. In the emergency department he has generalised urticaria, audible wheeze and a blood pressure of 84/…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A medical student is bag-mask ventilating a 62-year-old woman who is apnoeic after a benzodiazepine overdose. She has a palpable pulse and a correctly sized ora…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
You are the intern on night cover. At 02:00 the nurse asks you to see a 68-year-old man on the second night after a right hemicolectomy. His respiratory rate is…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 7-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department because he has been breathing hard since the morning. He has vomited repeatedly for two days and says hi…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
In late July a 34-year-old man attends with both his housemates. All three have had headache, nausea and poor concentration that build up through each evening a…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man is admitted with three days of fever and a productive cough. He weighs 138 kg, uses continuous positive airway pressure at home for witnessed…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
You are a medical student on placement in a rural general practice 90 minutes by road from the nearest hospital. A grandmother brings in her 2-year-old grandson…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 46-year-old man who came to Australia from South Sudan eight years ago is on the fourth day of treatment for community-acquired pneumonia. Asked by the nurse…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
An 84-year-old woman is on the ward on the evening of the first day after hemiarthroplasty for a fractured neck of femur. She has a morphine patient-controlled…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist