Results for “ARDS”

A 22-year-old university student had her first episode of psychosis nine months ago and has been in full remission on aripiprazole for the past seven months. Sh…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 26-year-old accountant is brought to his general practitioner by his sister. For four months he has believed that the presenter of the evening news bulletin a…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 41-year-old woman stabilised on methadone 80 mg daily for opioid dependence has had open reduction and internal fixation of an ankle fracture. Four hours late…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 58-year-old man is on the second postoperative day after an elective right hemicolectomy. Overnight he became restless and drenched with sweat; this morning h…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A general practitioner in a regional town is asked to run a drug and alcohol education session at the local secondary school. Media coverage over the past year…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 72-year-old woman who came to Australia from Vietnam forty years ago is brought to a memory clinic by her son, who describes two years of gradually worsening…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 79-year-old man attends with his wife for the results of a memory assessment, which has confirmed mild Alzheimer disease. He lives at home, manages his own fi…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 76-year-old man with dementia with Lewy bodies has become convinced that his son is stealing from him and has started accusing and shoving care staff. Over th…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche

A 74-year-old man is brought by his wife because for the past year he has described the small children who come into the lounge room most afternoons; he can say…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

An 82-year-old man with Alzheimer disease diagnosed four years ago lives in residential care, where he usually plays cards each afternoon and needs help only wi…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

You are the intern on a geriatric medicine ward in Perth. An 84-year-old woman who developed a hyperactive delirium during her admission for pneumonia is being…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · niche

A 76-year-old woman was admitted five days ago with a severe depressive episode. Her general practitioner started amitriptyline 75 mg at night three weeks ago a…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 47-year-old truck driver is referred by his general practitioner with insomnia and low mood after two months of exhaustion. He is in bed for nine hours a nigh…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A resident is completing the discharge summary for a woman treated for a first manic episode. The diagnosis was made at the bedside against the criteria in the…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche

A medical student presents a new admission at the morning meeting. She gives his age, occupation and living situation, the presenting complaint and its history,…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

A 78-year-old woman is three days after a hemiarthroplasty for a fractured neck of femur. The night nurse reports that she was pulling at her drip at 2 am and c…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 74-year-old man who came to Australia from Vietnam at the age of 40 is brought to the general practice by his daughter. Over two years he has become repetitiv…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 15-year-old girl attends a general practice with her mother, who says her daughter has become withdrawn and is failing subjects at school. The doctor has aske…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

An 81-year-old woman who came to Australia from Vietnam at the age of 45 is referred because her family say she forgets appointments and repeats herself. She le…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · niche

A 19-year-old man received his first ever dose of an antipsychotic 14 hours ago, having been admitted with psychosis. He calls the nurse because his neck has pu…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist