Paediatrics
33 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 10-day-old boy born at term is brought in with two days of poor feeding, vomiting and lethargy, and today is floppy and grey. He is afebrile, with a heart rat…
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An 8-month-old boy is brought in because his 5-year-old cousin, who visited the house two days ago and played with him for an afternoon, has today been diagnose…
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A 16-week-old girl is brought for her first immunisations; the family have recently arrived from overseas and she has had only the birth dose of hepatitis B vac…
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You are the intern attached to a regional public health unit. Its annual child health profile for a town of 4,000 people reports: two-dose measles-mumps-rubella…
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You are a resident in a Perth children's hospital and have had concerns about five children this week. Each concern is soundly based, you believe each on reason…
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A 22-month-old boy is brought to the emergency department with scalds to both feet and lower legs. His mother says he climbed into the bath alone while she answ…
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A 9-day-old term baby is brought to a rural emergency department pale, mottled and grunting after a day of poor feeding. He is afebrile. His heart rate is 190 a…
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A 4-year-old girl with Dravet syndrome is brought in by ambulance with a generalised convulsion that started 20 minutes ago. Her parents gave buccal midazolam a…
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Several people are brought to a metropolitan emergency department after a chemical was deliberately released in a shopping centre. A six-year-old girl weighing…
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A 20-month-old girl is brought to a metropolitan emergency department 45 minutes after her brother saw her swallow a 20 mm lithium button battery from a remote…
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An 18-month-old girl weighing 10.0 kg has had four days of diarrhoea and has been given water and diluted cordial at home. She is lethargic with a doughy feel t…
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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…
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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…
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An 8-year-old boy who had a right tympanostomy tube inserted last year has a two-week history of an itchy, discharging right ear after swimming lessons. He has…
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A 7-year-old girl returns from a camping trip in far north Queensland with five days of fever, headache and severe myalgia. There is a 1 cm black-crusted ulcer…
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A 13-year-old girl attends a general practice in the first week of September. Every year from the first week of October until Christmas she has a blocked, itchy…
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An 8-month-old boy is brought to a general practice with six weeks of dry, pink, scaly patches on both cheeks and around the mouth. He rubs at them and wakes se…
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A 9-year-old girl with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes has been on the paediatric ward for eight hours receiving intravenous fluid and an insulin infusion for k…
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A 7-year-old boy is brought in by his mother, who has biopsy-proven coeliac disease, as does his older sister. He is well, on the 50th centile for height and we…
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A boy is born at 39 weeks weighing 2.5 kg to a woman with epilepsy who took a single antiepileptic drug throughout the pregnancy. He has a broad flat nasal brid…
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