Paediatrics
152 free practice questions at the pre-internship stage shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
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…
Pre-internship · niche
A 3-year-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department 30 minutes after being carried out of a house fire. There is soot around his nostrils and on his…
Pre-internship · common
You are discharging a 5-week-old boy after an admission with bronchiolitis. His mother smokes ten cigarettes a day outdoors. She tells you she is so exhausted t…
Pre-internship · middle twist
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…
Pre-internship · niche
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…
Pre-internship · niche
A 15-year-old girl swallowed twelve of her mother's ibuprofen tablets after a break-up and is now six hours post-ingestion. She is asymptomatic, her observation…
Pre-internship · common
A 3-year-old girl weighing 15 kg is brought in one hour after swallowing tablets from her mother's iron bottle. Each tablet contains 65 mg of elemental iron and…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A father telephones the emergency department. Twenty minutes ago he found his 20-month-old daughter with the back of the television remote prised open and one o…
Pre-internship · middle twist
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 three-year-old girl is brought to a regional emergency department 30 minutes after drinking from an unlabelled bottle her father had decanted drain cleaner in…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A two-year-old girl weighing 12 kg is brought to a regional emergency department 90 minutes after being found with her mother's iron tablets. The pack accounts…
Pre-internship · middle twist
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…
Pre-internship · niche
A 15-year-old boy weighing 60 kg presents to a metropolitan emergency department six hours after swallowing forty paracetamol 500 mg tablets in one go. He has v…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A three-year-old girl weighing 14 kg is found with her grandmother's dose administration aid, which contains amitriptyline. Two hours later she is drowsy with 5…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A two-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department 40 minutes after her mother saw her swallow an unknown number of the grandmother's paracetamol tablet…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A five-month-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department at 2 am because he cannot be roused. His respiratory rate is 12 per minute and his pupils are…
Pre-internship · middle twist
You are the resident covering an after-hours paediatric telephone line. The mother of a two-year-old boy rings about his second day of gastroenteritis. He was r…
Pre-internship · common
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…
Pre-internship · niche
A 10-year-old boy weighing 32 kg is admitted to the ward for observation after an appendicectomy. He is comfortable, normotensive and well perfused, has not vom…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 7-month-old boy has had 18 hours of loose stools and two vomits. His mother says the nappies are as wet as usual and he is still breastfeeding well. He is ale…
Pre-internship · middle twist