Paediatrics
342 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A 7-year-old boy falls from playground equipment and sustains a displaced supracondylar fracture of the humerus. His hand is warm, capillary refill is 1.5 secon…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 30-hour-old boy develops jaundice and pallor. He is feeding reasonably well and has mild splenomegaly. His mother is blood group O positive and he is group B…
Mechanisms of disease · middle twist
A 19-day-old girl is reviewed for jaundice that has persisted since discharge from hospital. Her mother reports that the urine has stained the nappy dark and th…
Clinical rotations · common
A 3-week-old boy is brought with persistent jaundice, poor weight gain and two episodes of jitteriness before feeds. He was born at term with a small penis and…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 8-month-old girl has a temperature of 39.4°C and has been unsettled for two days. She is drinking, has normal work of breathing and perfusion, and examinatio…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 4-year-old boy presents with fever, vomiting and severe pain in both legs. Over the preceding two hours, dark purple spots have appeared over his buttocks and…
Clinical rotations · common
A 4-year-old child in a childcare centre has had paroxysmal coughing with post-tussive vomiting for 12 days, and PCR has detected Bordetella pertussis. He is ot…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A mother brings her 16-week-old son for his first vaccinations. The family recently arrived from overseas and he has received no vaccines apart from a hepatitis…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 7-month-old previously well boy is brought to the emergency department after six hours of episodes of sudden inconsolable screaming during which he draws his…
Clinical rotations · common
A 4-week-old girl born at term is reviewed because she is still visibly jaundiced. The jaundice was first noticed on day three of life; she is fully breastfed,…
Clinical rotations · common
An 8-week-old boy is brought to a general practice for his scheduled immunisations. While preparing the injections the practice nurse notices a 1.5 cm oval brui…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 6-day-old boy born at term is brought to the emergency department after vomiting three times over four hours; the most recent vomitus was dark green. He fed n…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 22-month-old boy is brought to his general practitioner because he is not yet talking. He says 'mum' and 'dada' only, but points to things he wants, waves goo…
Clinical rotations · common
A 3-year-old boy presents with six days of fever above 39°C that has persisted despite regular paracetamol; he is miserable and difficult to console. Both eyes…
Clinical rotations · common
A 24-day-old girl is brought to the emergency department after her mother measured an axillary temperature of 38.3°C at home. She was born at term after an unco…
Clinical rotations · common
A 15-month-old boy presents with two days of vomiting and frequent watery stools. He is alert but subdued, with dry lips, mildly sunken eyes, heart rate 148/min…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 18-month-old boy wakes at 2 am with a harsh, barking cough and noisy breathing and is brought to the emergency department. He has had a runny nose for two da…
Clinical rotations · common
A 9-month-old girl is brought to the emergency department with three days of runny nose and moist cough, and one day of fast, noisy breathing. She is taking abo…
Clinical rotations · common
A 14-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department after waking at 5 am with sudden severe pain in the left side of his scrotum, and he has vomited twice.…
Clinical rotations · common
A 14-year-old boy presents with sudden severe lower abdominal pain that woke him from sleep two hours ago, accompanied by two episodes of vomiting. He is pale a…
Clinical rotations · common