Results for “ARDS”
164 questions found
A 52-year-old woman attends your practice 20 to 30 times a year with headaches, bloating, dizziness and aching limbs that she says rule her days. She has had tw…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
Three days ago a bus carrying school staff rolled on a country highway and two people died. A 44-year-old teacher who was on the bus is physically uninjured but…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 74-year-old woman is referred with six months of worry, restlessness and broken sleep. She has never been anxious before and can point to no trigger. She has…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · common
A 27-year-old man is assessed in the emergency department short-stay unit with three weeks of low mood, waking at 4 am and hopelessness. He has had two similar…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 71-year-old man is three months into rehabilitation after a left middle cerebral artery infarct. He eats little and has lost 4 kg. He wakes at 4 am and cannot…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 22-year-old university student had her first episode of psychosis nine months ago and has been in full remission on aripiprazole for the past seven months. Sh…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 26-year-old accountant is brought to his general practitioner by his sister. For four months he has believed that the presenter of the evening news bulletin a…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
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
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
A general practitioner in a regional town is asked to run a drug and alcohol education session at the local secondary school. Media coverage over the past year…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A 72-year-old woman who came to Australia from Vietnam forty years ago is brought to a memory clinic by her son, who describes two years of gradually worsening…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 79-year-old man attends with his wife for the results of a memory assessment, which has confirmed mild Alzheimer disease. He lives at home, manages his own fi…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 76-year-old man with dementia with Lewy bodies has become convinced that his son is stealing from him and has started accusing and shoving care staff. Over th…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A 74-year-old man is brought by his wife because for the past year he has described the small children who come into the lounge room most afternoons; he can say…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 82-year-old man with Alzheimer disease diagnosed four years ago lives in residential care, where he usually plays cards each afternoon and needs help only wi…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
You are the intern on a geriatric medicine ward in Perth. An 84-year-old woman who developed a hyperactive delirium during her admission for pneumonia is being…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · niche
A 76-year-old woman was admitted five days ago with a severe depressive episode. Her general practitioner started amitriptyline 75 mg at night three weeks ago a…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 47-year-old truck driver is referred by his general practitioner with insomnia and low mood after two months of exhaustion. He is in bed for nine hours a nigh…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common
A resident is completing the discharge summary for a woman treated for a first manic episode. The diagnosis was made at the bedside against the criteria in the…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche
A medical student presents a new admission at the morning meeting. She gives his age, occupation and living situation, the presenting complaint and its history,…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · common