Emergency and Toxicology
57 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 46-year-old man is brought from a house fire with burns to his face and upper chest. He is awake, has soot around his mouth and is coughing; initially his voi…
Clinical rotations · common
A 76-year-old man with persistent atrial fibrillation develops sudden severe abdominal pain and vomiting. He is pale and distressed, but his abdomen is initiall…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 63-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes accidentally injects 60 units of insulin glargine instead of her usual 20 units. She becomes confused with a capillary…
Clinical rotations · common
A 74-year-old man with type 2 diabetes presents with several days of lethargy and increasing confusion. His blood glucose concentration is 42 mmol/L, calculated…
Pre-internship · common
A 67-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes is admitted with community-acquired pneumonia and is not eating. She normally injects insulin glargine 24 units at nigh…
Clinical rotations · common
A 29-year-old man presents two days after running out of prescribed oxycodone, which he had been taking in increasing amounts for a year. He is yawning, restles…
Clinical rotations · common
A 52-year-old man with alcohol dependence is brought to the emergency department after being found confused at home. He has had several days of vomiting and is…
Pre-internship · common
A 34-year-old woman presents with anxiety, poor sleep, nausea and a sense that people are watching her. She stopped taking alprazolam 72 hours ago after using 6…
Clinical rotations · common
A 19-year-old man is brought to hospital 90 minutes after swallowing approximately 60 g of paracetamol. He is drowsy, sweaty and vomiting. Arterial blood gas an…
Clinical rotations · niche
A 27-year-old man is bitten while walking through long grass near Tamworth, New South Wales. He brings a photograph of a slender brown snake, but the species ca…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 32-year-old man is found confused after ingesting an unknown number of amitriptyline tablets. He has a blood pressure of 86/54 mmHg, a pulse of 126/min and a…
Clinical rotations · common
A 58-year-old man is brought to the emergency department after being found drowsy beside an empty bottle of methadone mixture. He has a respiratory rate of 7/mi…
Clinical rotations · common
A 24-year-old woman presents 30 hours after taking repeated doses of paracetamol for a dental infection. She estimates taking 10–12 g daily for four days; her p…
Clinical rotations · common
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 49-year-old woman with a recently diagnosed adrenal pheochromocytoma requires drainage of a painful dental abscess before definitive tumour surgery. Her blood…
Clinical rotations · niche
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