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Several people are brought to a metropolitan emergency department after a chemical was deliberately released in a shopping centre. A six-year-old girl weighing…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
An 18-month-old boy is brought to a rural emergency department after being found in a farm shed beside a spilt container, with his clothing wet. He is drowsy bu…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A three-year-old girl is brought to a regional emergency department 30 minutes after drinking from an unlabelled bottle her father had decanted drain cleaner in…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A mother telephones her general practice mid-morning. Her two-year-old daughter has been found in the laundry sitting beside an open bottle of a garden product,…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A two-year-old girl weighing 12 kg is brought to a regional emergency department 90 minutes after being found with her mother's iron tablets. The pack accounts…
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 three-year-old girl weighing 14 kg is found with her grandmother's dose administration aid, which contains amitriptyline. Two hours later she is drowsy with 5…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A three-year-old boy weighing 15 kg is brought to the emergency department 90 minutes after his parents found him with an open bottle of perfume containing 60%…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A two-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department 40 minutes after her mother saw her swallow an unknown number of the grandmother's paracetamol tablet…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
An Australian poisons information centre is reviewing the 4200 calls it took last year about children younger than 16 years, so that it can direct a prevention…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A public health registrar is reviewing a local council's childhood injury prevention plan after a rise in emergency department presentations for household poiso…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 14-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department by her mother three hours after being found crying in her bedroom beside an empty packet of ibuprofen…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A five-month-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department at 2 am because he cannot be roused. His respiratory rate is 12 per minute and his pupils are…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
You are the resident covering an after-hours paediatric telephone line. The mother of a two-year-old boy rings about his second day of gastroenteritis. He was r…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 14-month-old girl is brought to a rural general practice with three days of watery diarrhoea and vomiting. She is alert and playing, her lips are dry, her cap…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
An 18-month-old girl weighing 10.0 kg has had four days of diarrhoea and has been given water and diluted cordial at home. She is lethargic with a doughy feel t…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
A 6-year-old girl weighing 20 kg is admitted with severe gastroenteritis. She was shocked on arrival and was given sodium chloride 0.9% 400 mL intravenously ove…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 10-year-old boy weighing 32 kg is admitted to the ward for observation after an appendicectomy. He is comfortable, normotensive and well perfused, has not vom…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist