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A 64-year-old woman attends the general practice with six weeks of low mood, tearfulness, broken sleep and loss of interest in everything she used to enjoy. Fiv…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 68-year-old woman weighing 65 kg is in the emergency department with urinary sepsis. Intravenous antibiotics were given within 30 minutes of arrival and she h…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A well 24-year-old woman has routine blood tests before starting a combined oral contraceptive. She takes no medication and her blood pressure is 112/70 mmHg. B…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 62-year-old man collapses in a hospital foyer and is found to be in ventricular fibrillation. Compressions have been continuous, adrenaline 1 mg has been give…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 68-year-old woman is brought in from a residential aged care facility with fever and new confusion. Her temperature is 38.9 degrees Celsius, blood pressure 82…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 28-year-old man is stung by a bee in a hospital car park. In the emergency department he has generalised urticaria, audible wheeze and a blood pressure of 84/…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
You are the first doctor to reach a 68-year-old man found slumped in a chair in the day therapy unit. He does not respond to voice or to a firm shake, he makes…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 13-year-old boy weighing 52 kg develops widespread urticaria, a hoarse voice and wheeze about ten minutes after eating a satay skewer at a school camp. He is…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 46-year-old woman is admitted with two days of vomiting and lightheadedness. Her regular tablets are alendronate, esomeprazole and prednisolone, all of which…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 24-year-old man is brought to a regional emergency department after his motorcycle struck a guard rail. The ambulance officers report that he lost his output…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 68-year-old woman is admitted with fever and dysuria. Blood cultures were taken and she received gentamicin and amoxicillin within 40 minutes of arrival. She…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 63-year-old man wakes at 5 am with swelling of his lower lip and the left side of his tongue. There is no rash and nothing itches. His voice is normal, his ch…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 34-year-old woman arrives 20 minutes after eating a satay skewer at a food van. She has widespread weals, a hoarse voice and expiratory wheeze. Blood pressure…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 68-year-old man presents with two days of rigors and right flank pain and is confused on arrival. Temperature 38.8 °C, respiratory rate 26/min, heart rate 118…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 70 kg man has a 12 cm laceration across the extensor surface of his right forearm from a falling pane of glass. Tendon function through the full range of move…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 34-year-old bushwalker is winched out of a gully in the Stirling Range after a night in cold rain. He is unresponsive and pulseless. Cardiopulmonary resuscita…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 68-year-old woman having a computed tomography scan develops flushing, wheeze and hypotension eight minutes after the intravenous contrast injection. She take…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 22-year-old man is brought in 20 minutes after eating a satay skewer at a food van. On arrival he had widespread welts, audible wheeze and a blood pressure of…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 62-year-old man wakes at 5 am with swelling of his lips and tongue that has worsened over three hours. He ate prawns and drank a glass of wine at a restaurant…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 79-year-old woman is brought in drowsy and clammy after two episodes of collapse at home. The monitor shows complete heart block with a ventricular rate of 34…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist