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A 63-year-old man collapses in an emergency department waiting room. He is shocked once for ventricular fibrillation and a palpable pulse returns after four min…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 24-year-old man is brought to a regional emergency department after his motorcycle struck a guard rail. The ambulance officers report that he lost his output…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 68-year-old woman is admitted with fever and dysuria. Blood cultures were taken and she received gentamicin and amoxicillin within 40 minutes of arrival. She…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 62-year-old man with treated hypertension develops severe pain between his shoulder blades while carrying a bag of potting mix. It was as bad in the first few…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 24-year-old motorcyclist is brought in thirty minutes after a high-speed collision. Blood is pulsing from a deep laceration on the medial aspect of his left t…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 31-year-old man is brought in after his utility vehicle struck a tree at speed. He is pale and cold and speaks in short phrases. Heart rate 132/min, blood pre…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 68-year-old man presents with two days of rigors and right flank pain and is confused on arrival. Temperature 38.8 °C, respiratory rate 26/min, heart rate 118…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 19-year-old woman walks into a metropolitan emergency department with her sister ninety minutes after swallowing thirty modified-release paracetamol tablets.…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 52-year-old man who lives alone is found drowsy on his kitchen floor and brought in by ambulance. He drinks heavily, is visibly thin, and his neighbour says h…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 26-year-old woman is brought in three hours after taking about 40 alprazolam tablets with wine. She sleeps but rouses to a loud voice, gags on an oropharyngea…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 74-year-old man on the orthopaedic ward is found drowsy six hours after his first dose of slow-release oxycodone for a fractured neck of femur. He rouses brie…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 19-year-old man is brought in by friends four hours after a party. He is agitated, mumbles continuously and plucks at the bedclothes, and does not know where…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 32-year-old woman is brought in after her car left the road and struck a tree at speed. She is alert and cold to touch. Blood pressure 84/52 mmHg, pulse 126/m…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 58-year-old man walks up to the triage desk of a metropolitan emergency department. He says a heavy tightness spread across the front of his chest while he wa…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 24-year-old woman is brought in by ambulance after being found unrousable at home. She had swallowed six of her flatmate's morphine tablets, which he takes tw…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 58-year-old man walks into a Perth emergency department at 1900 hours saying he has had heavy central chest pain radiating to his jaw for the past 40 minutes.…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 26-year-old man is brought in after coming off a motorcycle at speed. He has an anterior dislocation of the left shoulder and fractures of the left pubic rami…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 63-year-old man with renal colic is receiving morphine 2.5 mg intravenously every 5 minutes on your instruction. He has now had 12.5 mg and says the pain has…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 62-year-old man wakes at 5 am with swelling of his lips and tongue that has worsened over three hours. He ate prawns and drank a glass of wine at a restaurant…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 81-year-old woman was brought from a residential aged care facility two hours ago with fever and dysuria; her observations were normal at triage and she was…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist