Results for “fluid balance”

A 6-year-old girl weighing 20 kg is admitted with severe gastroenteritis. She was shocked on arrival and was given sodium chloride 0.9% 400 mL intravenously ove…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

An 84-year-old man with prostate cancer and bone metastases is catheterised in the emergency department for painless retention that has built up over several we…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 74-year-old woman is on day 4 after an open right hemicolectomy. Sodium chloride 0.9% 1 L eight-hourly, charted in the emergency department before her operati…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · common

A 71-year-old man is on day 2 after a Hartmann procedure for perforated diverticulitis. He remains nil by mouth and his nasogastric tube has drained 1400 mL in…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche

A 58-year-old man was admitted 36 hours ago with severe acute pancreatitis and has been given 7 litres of sodium chloride 0.9%. He is alert and normotensive, is…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 24-year-old man is brought in by ambulance after his motorcycle struck a guardrail. His left leg is partly amputated below the knee and bright blood is wellin…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · common

A 5-year-old girl weighing 20 kg is admitted with right lower lobe pneumonia. She is febrile at 38.9 degrees Celsius, saturating 93% on 2 litres per minute of o…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 24-year-old man is brought in after his motorcycle struck a fence post. He opens his eyes to pain, makes incomprehensible sounds and localises with his right…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 34-year-old man is seen in the medical tent 20 minutes after finishing a marathon run on a cool, overcast morning. He drank water at every drink station. He h…

Physiology · Foundations · common

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 woman is brought to the emergency department after drinking approximately 8 L of water during a long-distance event. She is drowsy and has a serum…

Neurology · Clinical rotations · common

An 82-year-old woman becomes confused and unsteady over three days while being treated for depression and hypertension. She is euvolaemic, her serum sodium is 1…

Geriatrics and Palliative Care · Clinical rotations · common

A 50-year-old man presents to the emergency department with confusion, rapid breathing, and general weakness. He has a history of chronic kidney disease. On exa…

Year 4 · Clinical rotations · common

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic function of simple cuboidal epithelium?

Year 1 · Foundations · common