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A 32-year-old woman is brought in after her car left the road and struck a tree at speed. She is alert and cold to touch. Blood pressure 84/52 mmHg, pulse 126/m…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 58-year-old man walks up to the triage desk of a metropolitan emergency department. He says a heavy tightness spread across the front of his chest while he wa…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 24-year-old woman is brought in by ambulance after being found unrousable at home. She had swallowed six of her flatmate's morphine tablets, which he takes tw…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 58-year-old man walks into a Perth emergency department at 1900 hours saying he has had heavy central chest pain radiating to his jaw for the past 40 minutes.…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
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 63-year-old man with renal colic is receiving morphine 2.5 mg intravenously every 5 minutes on your instruction. He has now had 12.5 mg and says the pain has…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 62-year-old man wakes at 5 am with swelling of his lips and tongue that has worsened over three hours. He ate prawns and drank a glass of wine at a restaurant…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
An 81-year-old woman was brought from a residential aged care facility two hours ago with fever and dysuria; her observations were normal at triage and she was…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
You are the intern on an evening shift at a public hospital in Perth. A 3-year-old boy was admitted this morning with a febrile illness. His mother has told the…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 58-year-old man had a witnessed collapse at a shopping centre. Bystanders started compressions, ambulance officers delivered one shock, and spontaneous circul…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 5-year-old girl weighing 20 kg is admitted with right lower lobe pneumonia. She is febrile at 38.9 degrees Celsius, saturating 93% on 2 litres per minute of o…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 43-year-old man is brought in 18 hours after a meal that included home-bottled vegetables. Over the past six hours his eyelids have drooped, his vision has do…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man has passed up to twelve watery stools a day for five days after returning from a trek in Nepal. He is thirsty and weak. His pulse is 118/min a…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man has vomited large volumes each day for nine days, bringing up food eaten the day before. The vomitus contains no bile. He has lost 5 kg, his m…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 68-year-old man has had 4 days of fever, cough and left-sided pleuritic pain. There is dullness to percussion, bronchial breathing and increased vocal resonan…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 76-year-old man is admitted after falling down four steps at home. He weighs 75 kg. He has fractures of the left fifth to eighth ribs and it hurts him to brea…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man reports 12 months of increasing breathlessness on exertion. He climbs stairs slowly and pushes on his thighs to stand from a low chair. His co…
Physiology · Foundations · niche
A 34-year-old woman has had 8 months of heavy menstrual bleeding. She is breathless climbing one flight of stairs and tired all day. Her conjunctivae are pale.…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 62-year-old man describes tightness across the chest when he walks up the hill to his home; it settles within three minutes of rest. He first noticed it a mon…
Physiology · Foundations · common
A 24-year-old man is brought to the emergency department 40 minutes after he came off his motorcycle. He has a closed fracture of the right femur and a tense, s…
Physiology · Foundations · common