Results for “ARDS”
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A 78-year-old woman is three days after a hemiarthroplasty for a fractured neck of femur. The night nurse reports that she was pulling at her drip at 2 am and c…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 74-year-old man who came to Australia from Vietnam at the age of 40 is brought to the general practice by his daughter. Over two years he has become repetitiv…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 15-year-old girl attends a general practice with her mother, who says her daughter has become withdrawn and is failing subjects at school. The doctor has aske…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
An 81-year-old woman who came to Australia from Vietnam at the age of 45 is referred because her family say she forgets appointments and repeats herself. She le…
Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · niche
A 19-year-old man received his first ever dose of an antipsychotic 14 hours ago, having been admitted with psychosis. He calls the nurse because his neck has pu…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 43-year-old woman has had two days of boring pain behind the right eye and, since this morning, double vision. Her right upper lid now covers the pupil and sh…
Ophthalmology · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 52-year-old woman wakes with a drooping right eyelid and double vision. She has had a boring pain behind the right eye since yesterday. When the lid is lifted…
Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 47-year-old man was hammering a steel chisel without eye protection when he felt something strike his left eye an hour ago. Visual acuity is 6/60 on the left…
Ophthalmology · Pre-internship · common
A 62-year-old Aboriginal woman from a remote Kimberley community is admitted to a Broome hospital with small bowel obstruction and listed for laparotomy on tomo…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 68-year-old woman is admitted with three days of increasing breathlessness. She has smoked 30 cigarettes a day for 40 years and has lost 6 kg over three month…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man comes off a trail bike at speed and arrives in a semi-rigid cervical collar and head blocks applied at the scene. He opens his eyes to voice,…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 17-year-old boy returns to the emergency department 18 hours after a below-knee plaster cast was applied for an undisplaced fracture of the distal tibia. He h…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · common
An 81-year-old woman catches her shin on a tow bar. There is a 6 cm triangular flap of skin over the front of the lower leg, based distally, pink to its tip, wi…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 74-year-old man with type 2 diabetes is brought to the emergency department by his wife because he has become sweaty, tremulous and muddled at home. His capil…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche
A 31-year-old man is intubated in the emergency department after falling from a roof and is transferred to the intensive care unit. Sedation has been withheld f…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 58-year-old man is found collapsed at home and brought to the emergency department. He does not respond when his name is called loudly and does not open his e…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · 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 63-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes presents with two days of vomiting and upper abdominal pain, during which she has eaten almost nothing. She takes metfo…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
You are the intern asked to collect a group and hold sample from a 68-year-old man before an elective hip replacement. When you arrive the ward clerk hands you…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · common
A 54-year-old man presents to a metropolitan hospital with a catheter laboratory after seventy minutes of central chest pain, which is continuing. His blood pre…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist