Results for “asthma”

A 76-year-old man with long-standing asthma has needed his reliever most nights for six weeks and now wakes twice a night wheezing. His preventer, budesonide wi…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 7-year-old boy is ready to leave a Perth emergency department six hours after a moderate asthma flare-up. He has had salbutamol by spacer and a first dose of…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 24-year-old woman is admitted with an exacerbation of asthma. After an hour of nebulised salbutamol and ipratropium and oral prednisolone she is speaking in f…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche

A medical student is bag-mask ventilating a 62-year-old woman who is apnoeic after a benzodiazepine overdose. She has a palpable pulse and a correctly sized ora…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common

A 7-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department because he has been breathing hard since the morning. He has vomited repeatedly for two days and says hi…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 34-year-old woman arrives 20 minutes after eating a satay skewer at a food van. She has widespread weals, a hoarse voice and expiratory wheeze. Blood pressure…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

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 68-year-old woman having a computed tomography scan develops flushing, wheeze and hypotension eight minutes after the intravenous contrast injection. She take…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche

A 24-year-old man reports 12 months of increasing breathlessness on exertion. He climbs stairs slowly and pushes on his thighs to stand from a low chair. His co…

Physiology · Foundations · niche

A 26-year-old woman with asthma is reviewed after three hours of emergency department treatment with inhaled salbutamol and ipratropium, systemic corticosteroid…

Respiratory · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 24-year-old woman with asthma remains breathless after repeated nebulised salbutamol and ipratropium, intravenous hydrocortisone and oxygen. She can speak onl…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common

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 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 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 woman has a 1.4 L haemorrhage after an uncomplicated vaginal birth. The placenta is complete and there is no vaginal or cervical tear. Despite ute…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 32-year-old woman develops widespread urticaria, lip swelling and wheeze within 15 minutes of eating a satay dish at a restaurant. On arrival of paramedics he…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common

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

A 28-year-old primigravida gives birth vaginally at 38 weeks gestation. During labour she was commenced on oral labetalol for blood pressure readings of 160/108…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · 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 24-year-old woman with asthma since childhood attends for review. Her only treatment is a salbutamol inhaler, which she now uses three to four times a week fo…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · middle twist