Emergency and Toxicology
35 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 34-year-old woman with schizoaffective disorder becomes restless, sweaty and confused six hours after venlafaxine was increased and tramadol was prescribed fo…
Mechanisms of disease · common
A 48-year-old woman taking sotalol for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation has two brief episodes of collapse. The ECG monitor records recurrent bursts of polymorphi…
Mechanisms of disease · common
A 17-year-old girl presents six hours after a deliberate ingestion of tablets taken from the family bathroom cabinet. She complains of nausea, repeated vomiting…
Clinical rotations · common
A 28-year-old woman is brought in by ambulance 90 minutes after being found drowsy next to an empty box of amitriptyline. Her Glasgow Coma Scale score is 12, he…
Pre-internship · common
A 21-year-old man collapses at the 14 km mark of a city fun run on a 34°C day. In the trackside medical tent he is confused and agitated with a Glasgow Coma Sca…
Pre-internship · common
A 26-year-old backpacker is snorkelling off Port Douglas in far north Queensland in December when she feels a mild sting on her forearm, leaving only faint redn…
Clinical rotations · common
A 34-year-old man in suburban Sydney felt a sharp pinprick on the back of his hand while moving pot plants stacked against the house. Over the next two hours he…
Clinical rotations · common
A 32-year-old woman develops widespread urticaria, lip swelling and wheeze within 15 minutes of eating a satay dish at a restaurant. On arrival of paramedics he…
Pre-internship · common
A 34-year-old woman taking sertraline 100 mg daily for depression presents with two hours of agitation and profuse sweating. Two days earlier her general practi…
Clinical rotations · common
A 19-year-old man is brought to a rural general practice, 45 minutes from the nearest hospital, with six hours of fever, vomiting and severe pain in his legs. H…
Pre-internship · common
A 35-year-old man is admitted six hours after a house fire with burns to 25% of his body surface area, including a burn encircling the entire right forearm wher…
Pre-internship · common
A 25-year-old motorcyclist is brought to the emergency department after a high-speed crash, complaining of left-sided chest pain and severe breathlessness; he c…
Pre-internship · common
A 58-year-old man with chronic kidney disease presents with weakness. Serum potassium is 7.1 mmol/L, and the laboratory result has been confirmed on a repeat no…
Pre-internship · common
A 74-year-old woman with metastatic breast cancer presents with sudden dyspnoea and pleuritic chest pain. CT pulmonary angiography confirms bilateral pulmonary…
Clinical rotations · common
A 45-year-old man becomes acutely unwell after receiving approximately 20 mL of an incompatible red-cell unit. He develops fever, severe flank pain, hypotension…
Pre-internship · common