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A 10-day-old boy born at term is brought in with two days of poor feeding, vomiting and lethargy, and today is floppy and grey. He is afebrile, with a heart rat…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche
A 5-week-old boy, first child, has had one week of vomiting that occurs within 30 minutes of every feed and is now forceful, landing well away from him. The vom…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 78-year-old man presents with three days of inability to pass urine and a painful lower abdomen, on a background of months of a poor stream and nocturia. A ur…
Renal, Urology and Electrolytes · Pre-internship · niche
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…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · 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…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
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 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…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
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…
Paediatrics · 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…
Paediatrics · 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…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 16-year-old girl with anorexia nervosa is reviewed in an outpatient eating disorder clinic. Over the past six weeks her weight has fallen 3 kg to 42 kg; she i…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
A 15-year-old girl attends a general practice with her mother, who is worried that she has stopped eating properly and has lost weight. Her mother says she has…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 9-month-old boy is brought by his mother, who is worried he is too small because her sister's baby of the same age is much bigger. He was born at term weighin…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 14-year-old girl has lost 9 kg over five months, restricts herself to about 800 kilojoules a day and exercises for two hours daily. Her heart rate is 58 beats…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 78-year-old retired farmer is brought in by his wife with four months of tiredness, vague upper abdominal discomfort and aching legs. He has lost 5 kg. He sto…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 73-year-old woman presents with four months of worry, restlessness and difficulty sleeping. She has never been an anxious person and nothing in her circumstan…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 82-year-old woman with mild dementia is admitted from home with three days of confusion that fluctuates and is worse at night. She is drowsy but rousable and…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 15-year-old girl has lost 12 kg over five months and eats about 600 kcal a day. She is alert, has attended school all week, and her parents can start family-b…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 16-year-old boy with anorexia nervosa weighing 39 kg was admitted three days ago and nasogastric feeding was commenced and increased daily. He has received th…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche