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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
A previously well 2-year-old boy has passed two large, dark red stools today. He has had no abdominal pain, has not drawn up his legs, has not vomited and has h…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
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
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 three-year-old boy weighing 15 kg is brought to the emergency department 90 minutes after his parents found him with an open bottle of perfume containing 60%…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
You are the resident covering an after-hours paediatric telephone line. The mother of a two-year-old boy rings about his second day of gastroenteritis. He was r…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 14-month-old girl is brought to a rural general practice with three days of watery diarrhoea and vomiting. She is alert and playing, her lips are dry, her cap…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 3-year-old girl weighing 14 kg is admitted with a fractured femur and placed in traction. She is comfortable on regular analgesia, well perfused, has moist mu…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 7-month-old boy has had 18 hours of loose stools and two vomits. His mother says the nappies are as wet as usual and he is still breastfeeding well. He is ale…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 2-year-old girl has had 24 hours of vomiting and watery diarrhoea. She is alert and irritable, her mucous membranes are dry, her father thinks her eyes look s…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 5-week-old boy has vomited after feeds for three weeks. The milk now comes back forcefully enough to reach the floor, and he immediately wants to feed again.…
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 7-month-old girl has had six hours of episodes in which she suddenly screams, draws her knees up and stiffens for a minute or two, then lies pale and floppy u…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 4-day-old term boy, discharged home yesterday and feeding well until this morning, has vomited four times in six hours. The vomit is dark green. He passed mec…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 7-year-old boy is brought in by his mother, who has biopsy-proven coeliac disease, as does his older sister. He is well, on the 50th centile for height and we…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
A 44-year-old man with treatment-resistant schizophrenia has taken clozapine 400 mg at night for six years and smokes 30 cigarettes a day. He is admitted to a s…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
An 11-year-old girl has missed 14 days of school this term. On school mornings she has stomach ache and vomits, and settles completely once she is told she may…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 14-year-old girl attends your general practice with her mother for the fourth time this year with abdominal pain. She has lost 4 kg, stopped playing netball,…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 16-year-old boy with anorexia nervosa weighing 39 kg was admitted three days ago and nasogastric feeding was commenced and increased daily. He has received th…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche