Results for “pulmonary circulation”

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 6-day-old term girl, home since day two and feeding well until this morning, is brought in mottled and lethargic. Heart rate is 186 per minute, respiratory ra…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · 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 68-year-old woman weighing 65 kg is in the emergency department with urinary sepsis. Intravenous antibiotics were given within 30 minutes of arrival and she h…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 3-year-old boy is pulled unresponsive from a community swimming pool. He is not breathing normally and a lifeguard has started chest compressions while an amb…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 66-year-old man has had ninety minutes of central chest pain with sweating. His electrocardiogram shows 3 mm ST elevation in leads II, III and aVF with ST dep…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche

A 74-year-old man on a surgical ward reports palpitations on the second day after a right hemicolectomy. He is alert and comfortable, with a blood pressure of 1…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common

A 19-year-old man is thrown from his motorcycle at highway speed. On arrival he is alert and complains only of neck pain. His blood pressure is 78/44 mmHg and h…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common

A 63-year-old man collapses in an emergency department waiting room. He is shocked once for ventricular fibrillation and a palpable pulse returns after four min…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 74-year-old man on the orthopaedic ward is found drowsy six hours after his first dose of slow-release oxycodone for a fractured neck of femur. He rouses brie…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 5-year-old boy is pulled from a backyard swimming pool in Mandurah after an unknown time under the water. He is limp and blue and is not breathing normally. H…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · 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

A 68-year-old man has had 4 days of fever, cough and left-sided pleuritic pain. There is dullness to percussion, bronchial breathing and increased vocal resonan…

Physiology · Foundations · middle twist

A 74-year-old man with type 2 diabetes presents with several days of lethargy and increasing confusion. His blood glucose concentration is 42 mmol/L, calculated…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common

A 68-year-old man develops sudden pleuritic chest pain and tachypnoea after prolonged immobility. Arterial blood gas analysis on room air shows pH 7.48, PaCO2 3…

Biomedical Science · Mechanisms of disease · common