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A 16-year-old boy with anorexia nervosa weighing 39 kg was admitted three days ago and nasogastric feeding was commenced and increased daily. He has received th…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche

A 26-year-old woman with a history of childhood sexual abuse collapses in the emergency department waiting room and develops generalised shaking. Twelve minutes…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche

A 24-year-old man is brought to the emergency department at 2 am by police. He has been using methamphetamine for three days, and is pacing, sweating and shouti…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

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 63-year-old woman has taken slow-release morphine for eighteen months for pain from vertebral metastases, prescribed and reviewed monthly by her oncologist. S…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche

A 54-year-old man is admitted eighteen hours after his last drink, anxious, sweating and coarsely tremulous, with a pulse of 108/min and a blood pressure of 150…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 41-year-old woman stabilised on methadone 80 mg daily for opioid dependence has had open reduction and internal fixation of an ankle fracture. Four hours late…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

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 is brought to a regional emergency department after threatening a neighbour with a length of timber. He is shouting, will not sit, and has twi…

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

You are the intern covering the orthopaedic ward at 2 am. A 79-year-old man, two days after hemiarthroplasty for a fractured neck of femur, is climbing over the…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 76-year-old man with long-standing asthma has needed his reliever most nights for six weeks and now wakes twice a night wheezing. His preventer, budesonide wi…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 26-year-old primary school teacher has had a red, watering right eye for four days; the left eye became red two days ago. She had a sore throat the week befor…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · common

A 7-year-old boy is ready to leave a Perth emergency department six hours after a moderate asthma flare-up. He has had salbutamol by spacer and a first dose of…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

You are the intern covering a paediatric ward at a Perth public hospital at 2100. The mother of a 6-year-old boy admitted this morning with fever and vomiting s…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 24-year-old woman is admitted with an exacerbation of asthma. After an hour of nebulised salbutamol and ipratropium and oral prednisolone she is speaking in f…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche

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 3-year-old boy is pulled unresponsive from a community swimming pool. He is not breathing normally and a lifeguard has started chest compressions while an amb…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

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