Results for “urinary tract infection”

An 82-year-old woman is admitted overnight with a fractured neck of femur after a fall at home. She has had no chest pain, breathlessness or palpitations. Preop…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche

An 88-year-old woman in residential aged care has had an indwelling urethral catheter for eight months for a neurogenic bladder, and it will be needed indefinit…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 71-year-old man presents with two hours of severe left loin pain radiating into the groin, with vomiting. He has never had pain like this before. He smokes 20…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 29-year-old woman at 25 weeks of pregnancy presents with right flank pain, rigors and vomiting. Her temperature is 39.2°C, pulse 132/min and blood pressure 92…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 31-year-old woman presents 12 days after a vaginal birth with increasing bleeding, fever and lower abdominal discomfort. Her temperature is 39.1°C, the uterus…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · common

An 8-month-old girl has a temperature of 39.4°C and has been unsettled for two days. She is drinking, has normal work of breathing and perfusion, and examinatio…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 7-month-old previously well boy is brought to the emergency department after six hours of episodes of sudden inconsolable screaming during which he draws his…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 58-year-old woman presents with two days of right loin pain radiating to the groin, associated with shaking chills. Her temperature is 38.9°C, pulse 118/min a…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 14-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department after waking at 5 am with sudden severe pain in the left side of his scrotum, and he has vomited twice.…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 76-year-old woman taking warfarin for atrial fibrillation attends for a routine INR check, which returns at 11.0 (target 2.0–3.0). She recently completed a co…

Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 66-year-old man is five days after an ultra-low anterior resection for rectal cancer and had initially been recovering well. Overnight he developed an irregul…

Surgery and Perioperative Care · Clinical rotations · common

A 68-year-old man presents with fever, rigors, dysuria and perineal pain. He has been unable to pass urine for 10 hours, and examination shows a markedly tender…

Renal, Urology and Electrolytes · Clinical rotations · common

An 84-year-old inpatient becomes agitated and inattentive over 12 hours. He repeatedly tries to pass urine, reports lower abdominal discomfort and has a palpabl…

Geriatrics and Palliative Care · Clinical rotations · common

A 70-year-old man presents with dysuria, a slow urinary stream, and a feeling of incomplete emptying. Urinalysis shows leukocytes and nitrites. He is afebrile a…

Year 1 · Mechanisms of disease · common

A 21-year-old woman presents to the GP with urinary urgency, suprapubic discomfort, and dysuria. This is her third similar episode in the past year. She does no…

Year 1 · Mechanisms of disease · middle twist

A 45-year-old woman presents with a painful, swollen, red area on her right forearm that developed over the past two days. She reports a minor cut from gardenin…

Year 1 · Mechanisms of disease · common

A pathologist examines a biopsy from a patient's mucous membrane and identifies nonkeratinized stratified squamous epithelium. From which of the following locat…

Year 1 · Foundations · common