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A 3-year-old girl weighing 14 kg is admitted with a fractured femur and placed in traction. She is comfortable on regular analgesia, well perfused, has moist mu…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 7-month-old boy has had 18 hours of loose stools and two vomits. His mother says the nappies are as wet as usual and he is still breastfeeding well. He is ale…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 2-year-old girl has had 24 hours of vomiting and watery diarrhoea. She is alert and irritable, her mucous membranes are dry, her father thinks her eyes look s…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 4-year-old girl is admitted with four days of diarrhoea. She is 10 per cent dehydrated but not shocked, and her serum sodium on arrival is 172 mmol/L (135-145…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 5-week-old boy has vomited after feeds for three weeks. The milk now comes back forcefully enough to reach the floor, and he immediately wants to feed again.…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 3-year-old boy is seen in general practice with a two-day blanching viral rash and is otherwise well. He is eating, playing and having his usual number of wet…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
An 8-year-old girl with chronic kidney disease is brought in vomiting after missing two dialysis sessions. She is alert and her blood pressure is 128/78 mmHg. S…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 3-year-old boy weighing 15 kg has had two days of profuse vomiting and diarrhoea. On arrival he was drowsy with cold mottled legs, capillary refill of five se…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
An 11-month-old boy weighing 10 kg has had 36 hours of watery diarrhoea and vomiting. He lies quietly in his mother's arms and opens his eyes when spoken to. Hi…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 5-year-old boy weighing 20 kg is admitted with bacterial meningitis. He is alert, his peripheries are warm with capillary refill under two seconds, and his mu…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 9-year-old girl is on day three of treatment for pneumococcal meningitis and has been receiving intravenous sodium chloride 0.9% with glucose 5% at full maint…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
A 14-month-old boy is being discharged with amoxicillin oral suspension to be given three times a day for five days. His mother arrived in Australia four months…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 3-year-old girl has a red bulging left tympanic membrane. She is afebrile, has had no ear discharge, and is playing in the waiting room. She is not Aboriginal…
Paediatrics · 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…
Paediatrics · 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…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 9-year-old boy has a forearm fracture and needs regular oral paracetamol in the emergency department. He weighs 52 kg; the 50th centile weight for his age and…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 12-year-old boy weighing 42 kg has multiple crusted impetigo lesions on both legs and needs oral antibiotic therapy. The recommended regimen is flucloxacillin…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 4-year-old girl admitted with a severe exacerbation of a chronic illness has a nasogastric tube in situ and cannot swallow tablets. One of her regular medicin…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
You are the evening intern on a paediatric ward. The consultant asks you to chart an oral medicine you have not prescribed before for a 3-year-old girl weighing…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 3-year-old inpatient was given 15 mg of oral morphine instead of the prescribed 1.5 mg one hour ago, because a decimal point on the drug chart was misread. He…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common