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A 5-month-old boy is brought to hospital with 2 days of nasal congestion, cough and reduced breastfeeds. He is alert but has subcostal recession and widespread…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 46-year-old man wakes with markedly reduced hearing in his right ear and a continuous high-pitched noise. He has no pain, discharge or recent infection, and t…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 7-year-old boy receiving chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia develops a temperature of 38.6°C at home. In hospital he is alert, has normal perfusio…
Haematology and Oncology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 32-year-old man presents to an Australian emergency department with fever, headache and myalgia 10 days after returning from Papua New Guinea. He took doxycyc…
Infectious Diseases · Clinical rotations · common
A 26-year-old woman is identified as a household contact of a patient with invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B. She is 2…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 9-year-old refugee presents with a sore throat and neck swelling after arriving in Australia from a region with limited vaccination coverage. He is febrile bu…
Infectious Diseases · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 74-year-old woman with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presents with increasing dyspnoea and drowsiness during a respiratory infection. On room a…
Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common
A 29-year-old man with asthma is treated for an acute exacerbation with repeated nebulised salbutamol, ipratropium and corticosteroids. Initially he was agitate…
Respiratory · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 68-year-old man with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presents with increasing breathlessness and purulent sputum. He has received controlled oxyg…
Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common
A 34-year-old woman with asthma remains breathless in the emergency department after three nebulised doses of salbutamol and ipratropium and intravenous hydroco…
Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common
A 29-year-old man presents two days after running out of prescribed oxycodone, which he had been taking in increasing amounts for a year. He is yawning, restles…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common
A 67-year-old man with alcohol dependence has mild withdrawal 10 hours after his last drink, with anxiety, tremor and nausea but no hallucinations or seizure. H…
Gastroenterology and Hepatology · Mechanisms of disease · middle twist
An 81-year-old man is admitted with a fractured neck of femur and becomes inattentive and disorganised over 24 hours. His level of alertness fluctuates, but he…
Geriatrics and Palliative Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 79-year-old woman with a previous stroke develops fever, cough and a new right lower-zone infiltrate 36 hours after vomiting during a meal. She is alert, has…
Infectious Diseases · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 72-year-old man is admitted with pneumonia after three days of fever, cough and increasing breathlessness. He is alert, but his respiratory rate is 34/min and…
Infectious Diseases · Clinical rotations · common
A 68-year-old man presents with a two-day history of fever, productive cough and pleuritic chest pain. He is alert, has a respiratory rate of 32/min, blood pres…
Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common
A 27-year-old man is bitten while walking through long grass near Tamworth, New South Wales. He brings a photograph of a slender brown snake, but the species ca…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
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 64-year-old man becomes hypotensive shortly after reperfusion of an inferior ST-elevation myocardial infarction. He is distressed but has clear breath sounds,…
Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · common
A 46-year-old woman presents with fatigue, jaundice and dark urine that began after a respiratory infection. She has mild splenomegaly but no renal or neurologi…
AMC · Clinical rotations · common