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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 4-year-old boy has had two weeks of puffiness around his eyes that is worst on waking and improves during the day, and for the past few days his ankles have b…
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 4-month-old girl, born at term, has had three days of a runny nose and cough and today is breathing fast and feeding poorly, taking about half her usual volum…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 3-day-old boy, born at term and discharged well at 24 hours, is brought back because he has become grey, floppy and uninterested in feeding over six hours. Hi…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
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 58-year-old man was started on oral amoxicillin five days ago for right lower lobe pneumonia. He returns because his fevers have continued and he is more brea…
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 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
An 18-month-old boy is brought to a rural emergency department after being found in a farm shed beside a spilt container, with his clothing wet. He is drowsy bu…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A two-year-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department 30 minutes after drinking from a soft drink bottle in the garage that his father had filled wit…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · 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 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…
Paediatrics · 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…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
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…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common