Emergency and Toxicology
57 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
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 9-year-old boy is brought to a regional Victorian hospital 45 minutes after a suspected snakebite to the calf while walking through long grass. A pressure imm…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 58-year-old farmer near Dubbo, New South Wales, felt a sharp scratch on his ankle while moving hay bales and briefly lost consciousness about ten minutes late…
Clinical rotations · niche
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 19-year-old man presents six hours after an acute ingestion of an unknown number of immediate-release paracetamol tablets in a suicide attempt. He is alert, w…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 24-year-old woman presents to the emergency department two hours after impulsively swallowing 32 tablets of 500 mg immediate-release paracetamol (16 g) follow…
Pre-internship · middle twist
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 24-year-old man sustains a closed fracture of the midshaft of the left tibia playing football. A plaster backslab with encircling crepe bandage is applied and…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 58-year-old woman presents with two days of right loin pain radiating to the groin, associated with shaking chills. Her temperature is 38.9°C, pulse 118/min a…
Pre-internship · middle twist
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 29-year-old woman requests emergency contraception 4 days after unprotected intercourse. Her BMI is 36 kg/m², she is not pregnant and has no contraindication…
Pre-internship · middle twist
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 63-year-old woman with acute myeloid leukaemia has had febrile neutropenia for 96 hours despite piperacillin-tazobactam. She remains haemodynamically stable,…
Pre-internship · middle twist
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