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A 4-year-old boy weighing 16 kg has had profuse watery diarrhoea and vomiting for three days and has not passed urine since yesterday. In the emergency departme…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 62-year-old man collapses in the emergency department waiting room. He is pulseless and the monitor shows ventricular fibrillation. Chest compressions are in…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 46-year-old man attends the clinic nine months after cardiac transplantation. He feels well, has no chest pain and walks four kilometres most days. He takes n…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 19-day-old boy has vomited after most feeds for the past week. He is 9 per cent below his birth weight, lethargic, with dry mucous membranes and cool peripher…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 5-month-old boy is brought to hospital with 2 days of nasal congestion, cough and reduced breastfeeds. He is alert but has subcostal recession and widespread…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 3-week-old boy is brought with persistent jaundice, poor weight gain and two episodes of jitteriness before feeds. He was born at term with a small penis and…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An otherwise well 29-year-old woman presents eight days after an uncomplicated vaginal delivery with a headache that has gradually intensified over four days. I…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 82-year-old woman becomes confused and unsteady over three days while being treated for depression and hypertension. She is euvolaemic, her serum sodium is 1…
Geriatrics and Palliative Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 49-year-old woman with a recently diagnosed adrenal pheochromocytoma requires drainage of a painful dental abscess before definitive tumour surgery. Her blood…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · niche
A 58-year-old man with primary adrenal insufficiency is scheduled for multiple dental extractions under general anaesthesia. He takes hydrocortisone 20 mg in th…
Endocrine and Metabolic · Clinical rotations · common
A 46-year-old woman taking prednisolone 7.5 mg each morning for polymyalgia rheumatica requires extraction of one mobile premolar. She is otherwise well, has ta…
Endocrine and Metabolic · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 49-year-old man develops abrupt retro-orbital pain and vomiting while exercising. In the next hour he becomes drowsy and develops left ptosis with limitation…
AMC · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 41-year-old woman has progressive weight gain, proximal muscle weakness and easy bruising. Her 24-hour urinary free cortisol is 780 nmol/day (reference less t…
Biomedical Science · Mechanisms of disease · middle twist
A 58-year-old man is receiving his first dose of intravenous vancomycin for a surgical site infection, charted to run over 60 minutes. Twenty minutes into the i…
Nursing · Clinical rotations · common
A 32-year-old woman develops widespread urticaria, lip swelling and wheeze within 15 minutes of eating a satay dish at a restaurant. On arrival of paramedics he…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common
An 18-month-old boy wakes at 2 am with a harsh, barking cough and noisy breathing and is brought to the emergency department. He has had a runny nose for two da…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 9-month-old girl is brought to the emergency department with three days of runny nose and moist cough, and one day of fast, noisy breathing. She is taking abo…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 38-year-old man is reviewed because his blood pressure remains elevated despite perindopril 10 mg and amlodipine 10 mg daily. He feels well, sleeps soundly wi…
Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · common
A 52-year-old man has a blood pressure of 162/98 mmHg despite adequate doses of perindopril, amlodipine and hydrochlorothiazide, with good adherence confirmed.…
Endocrine and Metabolic · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 35-year-old man reports drinking approximately 6 L of water daily because of anxiety about dehydration. He is alert, euvolaemic and not taking diuretics or an…
Renal, Urology and Electrolytes · Clinical rotations · common