Results for “tachycardia”
72 questions found
A 58-year-old man is on the surgical ward on the second day after an elective inguinal hernia repair. He is anxious and sweating, his hands tremble, and he has…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 22-year-old woman is admitted after three weeks of increasingly odd behaviour. Her mother says she had a flu-like illness a month ago, then became convinced h…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · niche
A 19-year-old man is brought to the emergency department by friends two hours after a party. He is frightened, is convinced the other guests were laughing at hi…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 58-year-old man is on the second postoperative day after an elective right hemicolectomy. Overnight he became restless and drenched with sweat; this morning h…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
Police bring a 54-year-old man to the emergency department at 2 am after he shouted at passing cars and swung at an officer. He is known to the mental health se…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 58-year-old man was admitted three and a half days ago after a fall from a ladder; his wife said he drinks nightly at the club. He was settled and oriented fo…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man with treatment-resistant schizophrenia is on day 18 of clozapine, now 250 mg at night. He is febrile at 38.4 degrees Celsius with a pulse of 1…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 29-year-old woman is referred with 'panic attacks': five months of episodes of pounding heartbeat, shaking hands and feeling unbearably hot, several of which…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 54-year-old restaurateur is brought by her husband with three weeks of elevated mood, sleeping two hours a night and plans to buy a second premises. She has n…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 84-year-old man with prostate cancer and bone metastases is catheterised in the emergency department for painless retention that has built up over several we…
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 74-year-old man on a surgical ward reports palpitations on the second day after a right hemicolectomy. He is alert and comfortable, with a blood pressure of 1…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
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
A 19-year-old man is thrown from his motorcycle at highway speed. On arrival he is alert and complains only of neck pain. His blood pressure is 78/44 mmHg and h…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
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 52-year-old man who lives alone is found drowsy on his kitchen floor and brought in by ambulance. He drinks heavily, is visibly thin, and his neighbour says h…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 34-year-old man is brought to the emergency department six hours after his general practitioner increased his sertraline and added tramadol for back pain. He…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 19-year-old man is brought in by friends four hours after a party. He is agitated, mumbles continuously and plucks at the bedclothes, and does not know where…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 26-year-old man is brought in after coming off a motorcycle at speed. He has an anterior dislocation of the left shoulder and fractures of the left pubic rami…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man has had constant central chest heaviness for 70 minutes, radiating to his left arm, with sweating and nausea. The pain is unchanged by posture…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist