Results for “liver”
Matching topics
211 questions found
A 29-year-old woman, gravida 2 para 1, is 13 weeks and 2 days pregnant by a dating scan at 8 weeks. She has had six hours of moderate vaginal bleeding and cramp…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 47-year-old man is reviewed in the cardiology clinic after a single episode of loss of consciousness while sitting at his desk. There was no warning and no pa…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 74-year-old woman describes losing the sight of her right eye over a few seconds while watching television 90 minutes ago. It has not come back and she now se…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 23-year-old university student is reviewed after being given a salbutamol inhaler by a locum six months ago. He uses it about three times most weeks for chest…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · 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 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 17-year-old girl weighing 55 kg says she swallowed 45 tablets of immediate-release paracetamol 500 mg about ten hours ago after an argument with her partner.…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 24-year-old woman rolled her right ankle landing awkwardly at netball two hours ago. She took four steps immediately afterwards and can take four steps now, l…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 28-year-old man jumped from a first-floor window to escape a house fire and has blistered burns over about 30% of his body surface. Forty-five minutes after t…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 58-year-old man is treated in the emergency department for a Colles fracture sustained tripping over a gutter. He smokes 25 cigarettes a day and lights the fi…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 41-year-old bricklayer attends the emergency department after cutting his forearm on a broken glass door at home. The wound is cleaned and sutured. On routine…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man dies in the resuscitation bay after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. His wife and adult daughter have been waiting in the relatives room wit…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 61-year-old woman with metastatic pancreatic cancer is in the emergency department short-stay unit with vomiting. She already knows her disease is incurable.…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 76-year-old man taking ramipril and spironolactone attends with three days of vomiting and increasing lethargy. He is drowsy but rousable. Pulse is 42/min and…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · common
A 34-year-old bushwalker is winched out of a gully in the Stirling Range after a night in cold rain. He is unresponsive and pulseless. Cardiopulmonary resuscita…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 58-year-old man had a witnessed collapse at a shopping centre. Bystanders started compressions, ambulance officers delivered one shock, and spontaneous circul…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 4-year-old boy weighing 16 kg has had profuse watery diarrhoea and vomiting for three days and has not passed urine since yesterday. In the emergency departme…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 62-year-old man collapses in the emergency department waiting room. He is pulseless and the monitor shows ventricular fibrillation. Chest compressions are in…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 24-year-old man is brought in after his motorcycle struck a fence post. He opens his eyes to pain, makes incomprehensible sounds and localises with his right…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man presents with two hours of palpitations. He is alert, has no chest pain, and his blood pressure is 124/76 mmHg. The radial pulse is regular at…
Physiology · Foundations · common