Results for “swallowing”

A 15-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department by her mother two hours after swallowing a handful of tablets during an argument. She says she took on…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

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

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 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 20-month-old girl is brought to a metropolitan emergency department 45 minutes after her brother saw her swallow a 20 mm lithium button battery from a remote…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

A 15-year-old boy weighing 60 kg presents to a metropolitan emergency department six hours after swallowing forty paracetamol 500 mg tablets in one go. He has v…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

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 62-year-old man is reviewed in the cardiology clinic eight weeks after an anterior myocardial infarction. He meets criteria for a moderate depressive episode…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche

A 54-year-old man is admitted eighteen hours after his last drink, anxious, sweating and coarsely tremulous, with a pulse of 108/min and a blood pressure of 150…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 34-year-old man with schizophrenia has relapsed twice in nine months, on each occasion a few weeks after stopping his oral risperidone. He is currently well,…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 29-year-old woman is referred with 'panic attacks': five months of episodes of pounding heartbeat, shaking hands and feeling unbearably hot, several of which…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 26-year-old woman weighing 60 kg presents five hours after swallowing an unknown number of immediate-release paracetamol tablets. She is alert with normal obs…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche

A 19-year-old woman walks into a metropolitan emergency department with her sister ninety minutes after swallowing thirty modified-release paracetamol tablets.…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 19-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department by her flatmate two hours after swallowing a handful of paracetamol tablets following an argument. Sh…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · niche

A 71-year-old man noticed slurred speech 90 minutes ago while watching television and his wife drove him straight in. He speaks with a mild slur that is fully i…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche

A 24-year-old man presents with two days of sore throat, fever and increasing difficulty swallowing. He has muffled speech, tender cervical nodes and a grey-whi…

Infectious Diseases · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 70-year-old woman vomits during a generalised seizure and becomes cyanosed. One hour later her temperature is 38.4°C, oxygen saturation is 88% on room air and…

Infectious Diseases · Clinical rotations · common

A 29-year-old woman presents with three days of worsening unilateral throat pain, fever and difficulty swallowing. She cannot open her mouth fully, her voice is…

Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · common

A 19-year-old man is brought to hospital 90 minutes after swallowing approximately 60 g of paracetamol. He is drowsy, sweaty and vomiting. Arterial blood gas an…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · niche

A 41-year-old woman has been stable on clozapine for 18 months but presents with fever, painful swallowing and malaise. Her temperature is 38.5°C and her absolu…

Haematology and Oncology · Clinical rotations · common