Ear

A 3-year-old non-Aboriginal boy who attends childcare in Melbourne has had a runny nose for two days and woke last night crying and pulling at his right ear. Hi…

Clinical rotations · common

A 4-year-old girl weighing 20 kg has acute otitis media and is lethargic and pale, so antibiotics are indicated. You have decided on amoxicillin 15 mg/kg, to a…

Clinical rotations · common

A 3-year-old boy weighing 18 kg has a bulging left tympanic membrane with purulent discharge in the ear canal, and antibiotic treatment is indicated. He is at l…

Pre-internship · middle twist

A 20-month-old boy has had two days of fever and disturbed sleep, waking crying and pulling at both ears. His temperature is 38.9 degrees Celsius. Both tympanic…

Clinical rotations · common

An 8-year-old boy who had a right tympanostomy tube inserted last year has a two-week history of an itchy, discharging right ear after swimming lessons. He has…

Pre-internship · niche

A 14-month-old girl has been crying, pulling at both ears and febrile for a day. She has had paracetamol, is drinking normally and is not vomiting. Temperature…

Pre-internship · middle twist

A 3-year-old boy is brought to the general practice because he uses only about twenty single words and no two-word phrases. He passed his newborn hearing screen…

Pre-internship · common

A 14-month-old child has fever and irritability after several days of coryza. The child is pulling at the right ear and wakes repeatedly overnight. Otoscopy sho…

Clinical rotations · common