Paediatrics
85 free practice questions at the clinical rotations stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 2-year-old boy weighing 12 kg has had two days of vomiting and profuse watery diarrhoea. He is now floppy and barely responsive, with cool mottled legs, a cap…
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A 9-month-old girl was eating grapes when she suddenly began to struggle. When you reach her she is conscious, silent, not crying and not coughing, with her mou…
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A 12-year-old boy who is on the 97th centile for weight has had three weeks of aching in his right knee and a limp that his parents noticed because his right fo…
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A 4-year-old boy has had two weeks of puffiness around his eyes that is worst on waking and improves during the day, and for the past few days his ankles have b…
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A 6-year-old girl has had a cold for a week and two days of increasing redness and swelling of her left eyelids. Today she is feverish (38.9 °C) and miserable.…
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A 3-year-old non-Aboriginal boy who attends childcare in Melbourne has had a runny nose for two days and woke last night crying and pulling at his right ear. Hi…
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An 8-month-old previously well boy has had a 12-hour history of episodes in which he suddenly screams, draws his knees up to his chest and goes pale, lasting a…
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A 2-year-old boy, fully immunised, wakes at 2 am with a harsh, seal-like cough and noisy breathing. He has had a runny nose for a day. In the department he has…
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A 4-month-old girl, born at term, has had three days of a runny nose and cough and today is breathing fast and feeding poorly, taking about half her usual volum…
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A 7-year-old boy is brought by his mother with a letter from his teacher. For the past year at school he cannot stay in his seat, blurts out answers before ques…
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An 18-month-old boy is brought in after a generalised convulsion lasting about three minutes at home; he had a runny nose and was "hot" for a day befo…
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A 2-year-old girl is brought in by her mother, who felt a lump in the child's abdomen while bathing her. The child is well, eating normally and has not los…
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A 4-year-old girl is found to have a heart murmur at a routine health check. She is thriving on the 50th centile, runs around the playground without becoming sh…
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A 12-month-old boy is due for his measles–mumps–rubella, meningococcal ACWY and pneumococcal vaccines. Three months ago he developed hives, facial swelling and…
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A term boy born by normal vaginal delivery after an uncomplicated pregnancy is noted by the midwife to be visibly jaundiced at 16 hours of age. He is feeding we…
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You are a general practice registrar in a regional town of 6,000 people. Over six weeks the public health unit has confirmed seven cases of measles, four of the…
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A 6-year-old girl attends a general practice with her aunt for a rash. While her aunt is out of the room collecting a prescription, the girl says, without any p…
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You are working in a busy regional emergency department on a winter evening. Five children are waiting and the nurse in charge asks which one should be brought…
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At a six-week check, the mother of a healthy term baby says he brings up milk after most feeds and seems more settled when he is not flat on his back. Her own m…
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An 18-month-old boy is carried into the emergency department floppy and unrousable. He has vomited several times over the past day and has refused food since ye…
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