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A 26-month-old girl with no known epilepsy is brought in convulsing. The seizure began 14 minutes ago; paramedics gave buccal midazolam at six minutes and a fur…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A woman telephones the practice about her 3-week-old, who was born at term and is thriving on exclusive breastfeeding. Yesterday another doctor started her on a…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 31-year-old woman weighing 60 kg restarts sertraline 100 mg daily for recurrent depression. She is exclusively breastfeeding a healthy, thriving 4-month-old b…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 7-year-old boy has had atopic dermatitis since infancy. Over two years his height has fallen from the 50th to the 10th centile, with weight falling in paralle…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 6-year-old girl is referred because her teacher has noticed her stopping mid-sentence and staring for a few seconds, then carrying on as though nothing had ha…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 15-year-old girl attends a general practice for a repeat of her salbutamol inhaler. She has had asthma since childhood. She uses salbutamol two or three times…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 5-year-old boy with spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy is reviewed in a community clinic. His mother says every meal now takes 45 minutes, that he coughs and…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 12-year-old Aboriginal girl from a remote community has been admitted to a tertiary hospital with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes. English is the family's fir…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 15-year-old girl with type 1 diabetes since the age of nine attends the clinic with her father. Her glycated haemoglobin has risen steadily over 12 months. He…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 7-year-old boy has had atopic dermatitis since infancy. His skin is currently red, thickened and excoriated across both antecubital and popliteal fossae and h…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 16-month-old girl who arrived in Australia from overseas six months ago is brought to a general practice because she is not gaining weight. Her weight has fal…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 5-week-old boy is admitted after a fortnight of vomiting that now shoots across the change table after every feed. The vomit has never been green. He feeds hu…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 7-month-old girl has had six hours of episodes in which she suddenly screams, draws her knees up and stiffens for a minute or two, then lies pale and floppy u…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 2-year-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department at 3 am with two days of runny nose and a harsh barking cough. Forty minutes ago he was given dex…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 10-week-old girl is brought to the emergency department by both parents with a bruise on the left cheek and a smaller one over the left ear. Her father says h…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 5-month-old ex-term boy is on day four of bronchiolitis. Over the past 24 hours he has taken about 40 per cent of his usual milk and had two wet nappies. Resp…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 14-month-old girl has been crying, pulling at both ears and febrile for a day. She has had paracetamol, is drinking normally and is not vomiting. Temperature…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 2-year-old boy brought in at 2 am has a harsh barking cough and a hoarse cry. His general practitioner gave him prednisolone 1 mg/kg nine hours ago and he set…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 3-year-old boy has had a fever above 39 degrees Celsius for six days despite regular paracetamol. Both eyes are red without any discharge or crusting. His lip…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 3-year-old girl who arrived from Ethiopia six months ago is screened after her grandmother, who shares the house, was diagnosed with smear-positive pulmonary…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist