Results for “hypokalaemia”
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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
A 31-year-old woman presents with six months of fatigue, nausea and 7 kg of weight loss. She has been adding extra salt to everything and craves potato chips. F…
Endocrine and Metabolic · Clinical rotations · common
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.…
Paediatrics · 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…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
A 9-year-old girl with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes has been on the paediatric ward for eight hours receiving intravenous fluid and an insulin infusion for k…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
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 26-year-old woman with a two-year eating disorder is admitted with cramps and profound weakness. She weighs 58 kg and has not lost weight. She denies vomiting…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 24-year-old primary school teacher is referred because of painless swelling at the angles of both jaws over four months. She is 165 cm tall and weighs 61 kg,…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 68-year-old woman arrives at 10 pm vomiting, with a painful red right eye and rings around the streetlights. The right cornea is cloudy, the pupil is mid-dila…
Ophthalmology · Pre-internship · niche
A 22-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department 30 minutes after an argument at home, breathing rapidly and deeply. She complains of tingling around…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man is freed after six hours trapped beneath a collapsed brick wall. He is alert, and both thighs are swollen and tender. He reports tingling in b…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man has passed up to twelve watery stools a day for five days after returning from a trek in Nepal. He is thirsty and weak. His pulse is 118/min a…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man has vomited large volumes each day for nine days, bringing up food eaten the day before. The vomitus contains no bile. He has lost 5 kg, his m…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 32-year-old woman has passed large volumes of pale urine for four months and drinks about eight litres of water each day, having decided this would improve he…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 7-year-old boy has passed large volumes of urine and craved salty food since infancy, and he is small for his age. His blood pressure is 92/56 mmHg and he has…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 24-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes presents with abdominal pain, vomiting and deep breathing. Her blood glucose concentration is 24 mmol/L, venous pH is 7…
Endocrine and Metabolic · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 46-year-old man is found vomiting beside an open container of an automotive fluid. He has tachypnoea, flank pain and oliguria; arterial blood gas analysis sho…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common
A 59-year-old woman is admitted after vomiting for two days and taking sotalol for recurrent atrial fibrillation. She has several brief episodes of faintness as…
Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · common
A 24-year-old man with type 1 diabetes presents with vomiting and abdominal pain. His blood glucose concentration is 28 mmol/L, blood ketones are 6.4 mmol/L and…
Endocrine and Metabolic · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 34-year-old woman with asthma remains breathless in the emergency department after three nebulised doses of salbutamol and ipratropium and intravenous hydroco…
Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common