Results for “central venous pressure”

A 71-year-old man with long-standing poorly controlled hypertension wakes to find the vision in his left eye blurred. There is no pain, no flashing lights and n…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · common

A 71-year-old man says the vision in his right eye switched off ninety minutes ago, without pain. He can count fingers only on that side. The right pupil dilate…

Ophthalmology · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 68-year-old woman weighing 65 kg is in the emergency department with urinary sepsis. Intravenous antibiotics were given within 30 minutes of arrival and she h…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 4-year-old girl has had three days of watery diarrhoea and vomiting. She is irritable with dry mucous membranes and reduced urine output; her hands are warm,…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 54-year-old man presents to a metropolitan hospital with a catheter laboratory after seventy minutes of central chest pain, which is continuing. His blood pre…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · 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 68-year-old woman is brought in from a residential aged care facility with fever and new confusion. Her temperature is 38.9 degrees Celsius, blood pressure 82…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 46-year-old woman is admitted with two days of vomiting and lightheadedness. Her regular tablets are alendronate, esomeprazole and prednisolone, all of which…

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 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 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 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

A 56-year-old man develops sharp central chest pain 36 hours after an uncomplicated inferior myocardial infarction. The pain is worse when he lies flat or takes…

Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · middle twist

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 21-year-old man collapses at the 14 km mark of a city fun run on a 34°C day. In the trackside medical tent he is confused and agitated with a Glasgow Coma Sca…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common

A 59-year-old man presents 90 minutes after onset of severe central chest pain with sweating and nausea. The ECG shows 3 mm ST-segment elevation in leads II, II…

Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 58-year-old man presents with three weeks of progressive breathlessness and a dull right-sided chest ache. He has smoked 30 cigarettes daily for 35 years and…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common

A 66-year-old man with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma is receiving chemotherapy through a tunnelled central venous catheter. On day 8 he develops fever of 38.6°C…

Haematology and Oncology · Clinical rotations · middle twist