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A 9-month-old girl was eating grapes when she suddenly began to struggle. When you reach her she is conscious, silent, not crying and not coughing, with her mou…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 2-year-old boy, fully immunised, wakes at 2 am with a harsh, seal-like cough and noisy breathing. He has had a runny nose for a day. In the department he has…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 31-year-old woman in her first pregnancy presents at 36 weeks with a frontal headache and "flashing lights" for six hours. Her blood pressure was 11…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Pre-internship · common

A 27-year-old man is brought in 20 minutes after his motorcycle struck a tree at speed. He is agitated, with a respiratory rate of 38/min, oxygen saturation 84%…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 71-year-old man with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presents with three days of increasing breathlessness and green sputum. On arrival he is dro…

Respiratory · Pre-internship · middle twist

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…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common

You are working in a busy regional emergency department on a winter evening. Five children are waiting and the nurse in charge asks which one should be brought…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

At a six-week check, the mother of a healthy term baby says he brings up milk after most feeds and seems more settled when he is not flat on his back. Her own m…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

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…

Paediatrics · 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…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

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…

Paediatrics · 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…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · 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…

Paediatrics · 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,…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

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…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

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…

Paediatrics · 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%…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

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…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · 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…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

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