Paediatrics
342 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
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…
Clinical rotations · common
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 15-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department by her mother two hours after swallowing a handful of tablets during an argument. She says she took on…
Clinical rotations · 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 2-year-old boy weighing 13 kg is brought to the emergency department 40 minutes after his mother found him beside her open bottle of iron tablets, with an ora…
Clinical rotations · 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
A mother brings her 18-month-old son to the general practice for a routine check. Her own mother has just moved in and keeps her tablets in a weekly pill organi…
Clinical rotations · 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…
Pre-internship · niche
An 18-month-old boy is brought to a rural emergency department after being found in a farm shed beside a spilt container, with his clothing wet. He is drowsy bu…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
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 mother telephones her general practice mid-morning. Her two-year-old daughter has been found in the laundry sitting beside an open bottle of a garden product,…
Clinical rotations · common
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 two-year-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department 30 minutes after drinking from a soft drink bottle in the garage that his father had filled wit…
Clinical rotations · 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 three-year-old boy weighing 15 kg is brought to the emergency department 90 minutes after his parents found him with an open bottle of perfume containing 60%…
Clinical rotations · common
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
An Australian poisons information centre is reviewing the 4200 calls it took last year about children younger than 16 years, so that it can direct a prevention…
Clinical rotations · common