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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 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 4-year-old boy develops widespread bruising on his shins and trunk and a crop of pinpoint red spots on his legs over three days, two weeks after a cold. He is…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 34-year-old woman at 33 weeks in her third pregnancy, who smokes and has chronic hypertension, presents with two hours of constant severe abdominal pain that…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Pre-internship · middle twist
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 24-year-old woman who wears soft contact lenses and often sleeps in them presents with 24 hours of an increasingly painful, red, watering right eye and marked…
Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 67-year-old man with prostate cancer on androgen deprivation therapy presents with two weeks of mid-back pain that is worse lying flat and wakes him at night.…
Haematology and Oncology · Pre-internship · common
A 72-year-old woman presents with three weeks of a new, persistent right-sided headache. Brushing her hair on that side has become painful, and her jaw begins t…
Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal · Pre-internship · 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 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 5-month-old boy born at term has had a runny nose for three days and is now feeding poorly. His temperature is 37.8 degrees Celsius and respiratory rate 56, w…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
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 13-year-old girl attends a general practice in the first week of September. Every year from the first week of October until Christmas she has a blocked, itchy…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche
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 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 4-year-old girl has had bruises on her shins and trunk for three weeks. Her mother says she has become pale, tires on the walk to kindergarten and asks to be…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 7-month-old boy has had a runny nose for three days and is now coughing, wheezing and breathing fast. This is his first such illness. Respiratory rate is 58 p…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A woman in preterm labour at 29 weeks is given betamethasone and transferred to a tertiary centre. Antenatal ultrasound and screening have all been normal and t…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 5-year-old boy with steroid-sensitive nephrotic syndrome finished a six-week course of oral prednisolone 2 mg/kg daily yesterday. He is in remission, is well…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 7-year-old girl is brought because her school photograph shows her much shorter than her friends. At 4 years of age her height and weight were both on the 50t…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist