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The mother of a 5-year-old girl admitted to a Perth public hospital with gastroenteritis tells the bedside nurse that her daughter is going flat and is not hers…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 58-year-old man walks into a Perth emergency department at 1900 hours saying he has had heavy central chest pain radiating to his jaw for the past 40 minutes.…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 74-year-old man collapses in a shopping centre and is brought to the emergency department in cardiac arrest. Resuscitation is unsuccessful and he is declared…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
An intern covering a Perth hospital's wards and its residential aged care liaison service is asked about five deaths in one afternoon. All five are Western Aust…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 89-year-old man with advanced dementia is in the emergency department with aspiration pneumonia. He cannot retain or weigh information about treatment. He ma…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 68-year-old woman is brought to a Perth emergency department unconscious after her neighbour found her with empty amitriptyline packets and a note. Her airway…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 58-year-old man dies in the resuscitation bay after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. His wife and adult daughter have been waiting in the relatives room wit…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 61-year-old woman with metastatic pancreatic cancer is in the emergency department short-stay unit with vomiting. She already knows her disease is incurable.…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 82-year-old woman with advanced dementia is admitted to a Perth hospital with a fractured neck of femur. She cannot repeat back or weigh up any part of the d…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 34-year-old man is brought to a Perth emergency department with a stab wound to the thigh. He is alert, gives a clear account of the assault, and knows the da…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 26-year-old man is brought in after coming off a motorcycle at speed. He has an anterior dislocation of the left shoulder and fractures of the left pubic rami…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 76-year-old man taking ramipril and spironolactone attends with three days of vomiting and increasing lethargy. He is drowsy but rousable. Pulse is 42/min and…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · common
A 63-year-old man with renal colic is receiving morphine 2.5 mg intravenously every 5 minutes on your instruction. He has now had 12.5 mg and says the pain has…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 71-year-old woman attends the emergency department with 10 hours of vomiting that began after a family barbecue. She has Parkinson disease treated with levodo…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · 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 34-year-old bushwalker is winched out of a gully in the Stirling Range after a night in cold rain. He is unresponsive and pulseless. Cardiopulmonary resuscita…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 16-year-old boy collapses at the finish of a school cross-country race in Perth on a 39-degree day. He is confused, cannot say where he is, and is unsteady wh…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 19-year-old man walks into a small country hospital 40 minutes after being bitten on the right calf by a snake he disturbed while moving hay bales. A bystande…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 24-year-old man is brought to the surf club first aid room at a Perth beach in February. Ten minutes ago, while swimming, he felt sudden severe burning pain i…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 68-year-old woman having a computed tomography scan develops flushing, wheeze and hypotension eight minutes after the intravenous contrast injection. She take…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche