Paediatrics
342 free practice questions shared by students. Answer them right here — no account needed.
A public health registrar is reviewing a local council's childhood injury prevention plan after a rise in emergency department presentations for household poiso…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 14-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department by her mother three hours after being found crying in her bedroom beside an empty packet of ibuprofen…
Clinical rotations · common
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
A 14-month-old girl is brought to a rural general practice with three days of watery diarrhoea and vomiting. She is alert and playing, her lips are dry, her cap…
Clinical rotations · 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 6-year-old girl weighing 20 kg is admitted with severe gastroenteritis. She was shocked on arrival and was given sodium chloride 0.9% 400 mL intravenously ove…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
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 3-year-old girl weighing 14 kg is admitted with a fractured femur and placed in traction. She is comfortable on regular analgesia, well perfused, has moist mu…
Clinical rotations · common
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
A 2-year-old girl has had 24 hours of vomiting and watery diarrhoea. She is alert and irritable, her mucous membranes are dry, her father thinks her eyes look s…
Clinical rotations · common
A 4-year-old girl is admitted with four days of diarrhoea. She is 10 per cent dehydrated but not shocked, and her serum sodium on arrival is 172 mmol/L (135-145…
Pre-internship · middle twist
A 5-week-old boy has vomited after feeds for three weeks. The milk now comes back forcefully enough to reach the floor, and he immediately wants to feed again.…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
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…
Pre-internship · niche
An 8-year-old girl with chronic kidney disease is brought in vomiting after missing two dialysis sessions. She is alert and her blood pressure is 128/78 mmHg. S…
Pre-internship · common
A 3-year-old boy weighing 15 kg has had two days of profuse vomiting and diarrhoea. On arrival he was drowsy with cold mottled legs, capillary refill of five se…
Pre-internship · middle twist
An 11-month-old boy weighing 10 kg has had 36 hours of watery diarrhoea and vomiting. He lies quietly in his mother's arms and opens his eyes when spoken to. Hi…
Clinical rotations · common
A 5-year-old boy weighing 20 kg is admitted with bacterial meningitis. He is alert, his peripheries are warm with capillary refill under two seconds, and his mu…
Clinical rotations · middle twist
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…
Pre-internship · niche
A 14-month-old boy is being discharged with amoxicillin oral suspension to be given three times a day for five days. His mother arrived in Australia four months…
Pre-internship · middle twist