Results for “airway”

A 19-year-old man is brought to hospital 90 minutes after swallowing approximately 60 g of paracetamol. He is drowsy, sweaty and vomiting. Arterial blood gas an…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · niche

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 58-year-old man is brought to the emergency department after being found drowsy beside an empty bottle of methadone mixture. He has a respiratory rate of 7/mi…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 24-year-old woman presents 30 hours after taking repeated doses of paracetamol for a dental infection. She estimates taking 10–12 g daily for four days; her p…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 68-year-old man develops sudden pleuritic chest pain and tachypnoea after prolonged immobility. Arterial blood gas analysis on room air shows pH 7.48, PaCO2 3…

Biomedical Science · Mechanisms of disease · common

A 58-year-old man is receiving his first dose of intravenous vancomycin for a surgical site infection, charted to run over 60 minutes. Twenty minutes into the i…

Nursing · Clinical rotations · common

A 21-year-old man collapses at the 14 km mark of a city fun run on a 34°C day. In the trackside medical tent he is confused and agitated with a Glasgow Coma Sca…

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 24-year-old woman presents to the emergency department two hours after impulsively swallowing 32 tablets of 500 mg immediate-release paracetamol (16 g) follow…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · middle twist

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

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 25-year-old motorcyclist is brought to the emergency department after a high-speed crash, complaining of left-sided chest pain and severe breathlessness; he c…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common

A 71-year-old woman with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presents with two days of worsening breathlessness and purulent sputum. She is treated with 28% o…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 48-year-old woman has a slowly enlarging thyroid nodule, intermittent diarrhoea and facial flushing. Her TSH is 1.6 mIU/L (0.4–4.0), and serum calcitonin is 1…

Endocrine and Metabolic · Clinical rotations · common

A 90-year-old man is dying from advanced heart failure and is no longer able to swallow. His breathing is noisy because of pooled respiratory secretions, but he…

Ethics and Professional Practice · Pre-internship · 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 researcher is examining samples of simple columnar epithelium from different locations in the body. Which of the following correctly pairs a location with its…

Year 1 · Foundations · common

A patient's arterial blood gas (ABG) results are as follows: Parameter Given Value Reference Range pH 7.25 7.35 - 7.45 PaCO₂ 50 mmHg 35 - 45 mmHg HCO₃⁻ 24 mEq/L…

Year 2 · Foundations · common

A 7-year-old boy presents to the emergency department with his mother, who reports that he developed a sore throat in the morning, which has worsened throughout…

Year 3 · Mechanisms of disease · common