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A 9-day-old term baby is brought to a rural emergency department pale, mottled and grunting after a day of poor feeding. He is afebrile. His heart rate is 190 a…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

A three-year-old girl weighing 14 kg is found with her grandmother's dose administration aid, which contains amitriptyline. Two hours later she is drowsy with 5…

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

A 14-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department by her mother three hours after being found crying in her bedroom beside an empty packet of ibuprofen…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · 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 10-year-old boy weighing 32 kg is admitted to the ward for observation after an appendicectomy. He is comfortable, normotensive and well perfused, has not vom…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

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 3-year-old boy is seen in general practice with a two-day blanching viral rash and is otherwise well. He is eating, playing and having his usual number of wet…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

An 8-year-old girl with chronic kidney disease is brought in vomiting after missing two dialysis sessions. She is alert and her blood pressure is 128/78 mmHg. S…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common

A 9-year-old girl with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes has been on the paediatric ward for eight hours receiving intravenous fluid and an insulin infusion for k…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

A 5-week-old boy is admitted after a fortnight of vomiting that now shoots across the change table after every feed. The vomit has never been green. He feeds hu…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 16-year-old girl with anorexia nervosa is reviewed in an outpatient eating disorder clinic. Over the past six weeks her weight has fallen 3 kg to 42 kg; she i…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

A 14-year-old girl has lost 9 kg over five months, restricts herself to about 800 kilojoules a day and exercises for two hours daily. Her heart rate is 58 beats…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 19-year-old university student with anorexia nervosa is admitted to a medical ward weighing 38 kg (body mass index 14.2 kg/m2). Her heart rate is 40 beats per…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 77-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department by her daughter because she has become confused and unsteady over three days. Five weeks ago her gene…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 15-year-old girl has lost 12 kg over five months and eats about 600 kcal a day. She is alert, has attended school all week, and her parents can start family-b…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

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

A 26-year-old woman with a two-year eating disorder is admitted with cramps and profound weakness. She weighs 58 kg and has not lost weight. She denies vomiting…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche

A 24-year-old primary school teacher is referred because of painless swelling at the angles of both jaws over four months. She is 165 cm tall and weighs 61 kg,…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 62-year-old woman attends the emergency department after tripping on a step. She has a grazed knee, is otherwise well, takes only atorvastatin and passes urin…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist