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A 3-year-old girl weighing 15 kg is brought in one hour after swallowing tablets from her mother's iron bottle. Each tablet contains 65 mg of elemental iron and…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
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 two-year-old girl weighing 12 kg is brought to a regional emergency department 90 minutes after being found with her mother's iron tablets. The pack accounts…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A girl born at 38 weeks weighs 2.2 kg and her head circumference is well below the third centile. Scattered purple-red spots over the trunk do not blanch, and t…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 13-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department with six weeks of ache in the left knee, worse after football and now making him limp. There has been n…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 14-year-old boy is brought by his parents because he is the shortest in his class and has no signs of puberty. His height is on the 3rd centile and he has gro…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 79-year-old woman was started on sertraline three weeks ago for her first depressive episode. Her daughter brings her to the emergency department because over…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 68-year-old woman comes to the emergency department at 10 pm with four hours of severe right-sided headache and vomiting that began while she was watching a f…
Ophthalmology · Pre-internship · middle twist
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 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 28-year-old man has had a deep ache in the right eye for three days with blurred vision. The right eye is red, most intensely in a narrow ring around the corn…
Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 9-year-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department after a heavy tackle at football. He is alert and orientated with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 1…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · niche
A 31-year-old man is intubated in the emergency department after falling from a roof and is transferred to the intensive care unit. Sedation has been withheld f…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 58-year-old man is found collapsed at home and brought to the emergency department. He does not respond when his name is called loudly and does not open his e…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 84-year-old woman is on the ward on the evening of the first day after hemiarthroplasty for a fractured neck of femur. She has a morphine patient-controlled…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · 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 26-year-old woman is brought in three hours after taking about 40 alprazolam tablets with wine. She sleeps but rouses to a loud voice, gags on an oropharyngea…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 6-year-old boy fell from a trampoline five hours ago onto grass. He cried immediately and did not lose consciousness. He vomited once at the scene and not sin…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man had a witnessed collapse at a shopping centre. Bystanders started compressions, ambulance officers delivered one shock, and spontaneous circul…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist