Results for “cough”

A 4-year-old boy is brought to a Perth emergency department with a swollen, bruised left forearm. At triage his mother said he fell from a kitchen chair. When y…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

You are working in a busy regional emergency department on a winter evening. Five children are waiting and the nurse in charge asks which one should be brought…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

At a six-week check, the mother of a healthy term baby says he brings up milk after most feeds and seems more settled when he is not flat on his back. Her own m…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A father telephones the emergency department. Twenty minutes ago he found his 20-month-old daughter with the back of the television remote prised open and one o…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A mother telephones her general practice mid-morning. Her two-year-old daughter has been found in the laundry sitting beside an open bottle of a garden product,…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

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 5-year-old boy has had a clear runny nose and a dry night cough for four days. He is afebrile and eating normally, and his chest, throat and ears are normal.…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common

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 16-month-old girl who arrived in Australia from overseas six months ago is brought to a general practice because she is not gaining weight. Her weight has fal…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 2-year-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department at 3 am with two days of runny nose and a harsh barking cough. Forty minutes ago he was given dex…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 3-year-old girl has had fever and cough for two days. She is alert, sitting up and drinking, and her mother has a car and lives ten minutes from the hospital.…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 7-month-old boy has had a runny nose for three days and is now coughing, wheezing and breathing fast. This is his first such illness. Respiratory rate is 58 p…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

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 3-year-old girl who arrived from Ethiopia six months ago is screened after her grandmother, who shares the house, was diagnosed with smear-positive pulmonary…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 6-year-old boy with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection is admitted to a paediatric ward. Over an hour his oxygen saturation falls to 88 per cent on 6 L…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common

A 9-week-old girl is brought to a regional emergency department with three weeks of cough. Her mother describes bouts of coughing that leave her red in the face…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 7-month-old girl is referred to a paediatric clinic with slow weight gain. Her weight has fallen from the 50th to the 9th centile over three months while her…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 5-month-old boy is brought to a regional general practice because he "is not filling out". Born at term weighing 3.4 kg, he tracked along the 50th centile unt…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 4-month-old girl with a large ventricular septal defect is reviewed before surgical repair. She breastfeeds every two hours but takes 40 minutes each time, sw…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 9-month-old boy is brought by his mother, who is worried he is too small because her sister's baby of the same age is much bigger. He was born at term weighin…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist