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A three-year-old girl is brought to a regional emergency department 30 minutes after drinking from an unlabelled bottle her father had decanted drain cleaner in…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A two-year-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department 30 minutes after drinking from a soft drink bottle in the garage that his father had filled wit…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 20-month-old girl is brought to a metropolitan emergency department 45 minutes after her brother saw her swallow a 20 mm lithium button battery from a remote…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
A 5-year-old boy with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy is reviewed in a community clinic. His mother says every meal now takes 45 minutes, that he coughs and…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 2-year-old boy brought in at 2 am has a harsh barking cough and a hoarse cry. His general practitioner gave him prednisolone 1 mg/kg nine hours ago and he set…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 15-year-old boy attends for clearance to play first-grade school football. He has never had chest pain or blackouts and keeps up with the fittest boys at trai…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
You are the intern covering a medical ward at 2 am. A 61-year-old woman with cirrhosis due to hepatitis C is admitted with hepatic encephalopathy; she is drowsy…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
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 7-month-old infant on a children's ward is found unresponsive and making occasional gasps. You and the paediatric registrar, both trained in paediatric basic…
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 32-year-old woman is brought in after her car left the road and struck a tree at speed. She is alert and cold to touch. Blood pressure 84/52 mmHg, pulse 126/m…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 58-year-old man walks up to the triage desk of a metropolitan emergency department. He says a heavy tightness spread across the front of his chest while he wa…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 58-year-old man has had constant central chest heaviness for 70 minutes, radiating to his left arm, with sweating and nausea. The pain is unchanged by posture…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man has vomited large volumes each day for nine days, bringing up food eaten the day before. The vomitus contains no bile. He has lost 5 kg, his m…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
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 62-year-old man describes tightness across the chest when he walks up the hill to his home; it settles within three minutes of rest. He first noticed it a mon…
Physiology · Foundations · common
A 22-year-old man is struck in the left lower chest by a cricket ball. Two hours later he has constant pain at the tip of the left shoulder, worse when he lies…
Anatomy · Foundations · common
A 27-year-old man had an intercostal catheter inserted through the fifth intercostal space in the midaxillary line after a crush injury to the chest. Two weeks…
Anatomy · Foundations · middle twist
A 68-year-old man has become breathless over three weeks. He is examined sitting upright, and the right side of his chest expands less than the left. Bedside ul…
Anatomy · Foundations · middle twist
A 26-year-old man is referred after a harsh systolic murmur is heard at a pre-season sports medical. He has no symptoms and plays club football. Echocardiograph…
Anatomy · Foundations · common