Results for “bradycardia”

An 18-month-old boy is carried into the emergency department floppy and unrousable. He has vomited several times over the past day and has refused food since ye…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A mother brings her 18-month-old son to the general practice for a routine check. Her own mother has just moved in and keeps her tablets in a weekly pill organi…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

An 18-month-old boy is brought to a rural emergency department after being found in a farm shed beside a spilt container, with his clothing wet. He is drowsy bu…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 9-year-old girl with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes has been on the paediatric ward for eight hours receiving intravenous fluid and an insulin infusion for k…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

A 16-year-old girl with anorexia nervosa is reviewed in an outpatient eating disorder clinic. Over the past six weeks her weight has fallen 3 kg to 42 kg; she i…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

A 14-year-old girl has lost 9 kg over five months, restricts herself to about 800 kilojoules a day and exercises for two hours daily. Her heart rate is 58 beats…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 15-year-old girl has lost 12 kg over five months and eats about 600 kcal a day. She is alert, has attended school all week, and her parents can start family-b…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 15-year-old girl is brought to a regional emergency department by her mother after fainting at school. Over five months she has cut all fats from her diet and…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 19-year-old man is brought to the emergency department by friends two hours after a party. He is frightened, is convinced the other guests were laughing at hi…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common

An 84-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer is admitted from her retirement village because over four days she has become drowsy by day, restless at nigh…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

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 66-year-old man has had ninety minutes of central chest pain with sweating. His electrocardiogram shows 3 mm ST elevation in leads II, III and aVF with ST dep…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche

A 19-year-old man is thrown from his motorcycle at highway speed. On arrival he is alert and complains only of neck pain. His blood pressure is 78/44 mmHg and h…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common

You are the first doctor to reach a 68-year-old man found slumped in a chair in the day therapy unit. He does not respond to voice or to a firm shake, he makes…

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 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 79-year-old woman is brought in drowsy and clammy after two episodes of collapse at home. The monitor shows complete heart block with a ventricular rate of 34…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

An 82-year-old woman has fallen twice since her medicines were changed. She is slower when walking and has recently complained of constipation, blurred vision a…

Geriatrics and Palliative Care · Pre-internship · common

A 37-year-old woman at 37 weeks has a small amount of vaginal bleeding shortly after her membranes rupture. She remains haemodynamically stable, with no abdomin…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common

A 33-year-old woman at 33+5 weeks has a blood pressure of 168/112 mmHg on two occasions despite oral treatment. She has persistent right upper quadrant pain; pl…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · middle twist