Results for “respiratory”

A 24-year-old man presents with two days of sore throat, fever and increasing difficulty swallowing. He has muffled speech, tender cervical nodes and a grey-whi…

Infectious Diseases · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 26-year-old woman with asthma is reviewed after three hours of emergency department treatment with inhaled salbutamol and ipratropium, systemic corticosteroid…

Respiratory · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 24-year-old woman with asthma remains breathless after repeated nebulised salbutamol and ipratropium, intravenous hydrocortisone and oxygen. She can speak onl…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common

A 29-year-old man is brought in shortly after his partner administered naloxone for suspected heroin overdose. He is yawning repeatedly, has abdominal cramps, d…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 46-year-old man is found vomiting beside an open container of an automotive fluid. He has tachypnoea, flank pain and oliguria; arterial blood gas analysis sho…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 54-year-old man presents with five days of fever, dry cough, headache and diarrhoea after returning from a Mediterranean cruise. He is confused, respiratory r…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 70-year-old woman vomits during a generalised seizure and becomes cyanosed. One hour later her temperature is 38.4°C, oxygen saturation is 88% on room air and…

Infectious Diseases · Clinical rotations · common

A 59-year-old man develops rapidly worsening breathlessness five days after an influenza-like illness. He has a temperature of 39.8°C, respiratory rate of 38/mi…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · 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 46-year-old man wakes with markedly reduced hearing in his right ear and a continuous high-pitched noise. He has no pain, discharge or recent infection, and t…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 7-year-old boy receiving chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia develops a temperature of 38.6°C at home. In hospital he is alert, has normal perfusio…

Haematology and Oncology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 32-year-old man presents to an Australian emergency department with fever, headache and myalgia 10 days after returning from Papua New Guinea. He took doxycyc…

Infectious Diseases · Clinical rotations · common

A 26-year-old woman is identified as a household contact of a patient with invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B. She is 2…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 9-year-old refugee presents with a sore throat and neck swelling after arriving in Australia from a region with limited vaccination coverage. He is febrile bu…

Infectious Diseases · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 74-year-old woman with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presents with increasing dyspnoea and drowsiness during a respiratory infection. On room a…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common

A 29-year-old man with asthma is treated for an acute exacerbation with repeated nebulised salbutamol, ipratropium and corticosteroids. Initially he was agitate…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 68-year-old man with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presents with increasing breathlessness and purulent sputum. He has received controlled oxyg…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common

A 34-year-old woman with asthma remains breathless in the emergency department after three nebulised doses of salbutamol and ipratropium and intravenous hydroco…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common

A 29-year-old man presents two days after running out of prescribed oxycodone, which he had been taking in increasing amounts for a year. He is yawning, restles…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 67-year-old man with alcohol dependence has mild withdrawal 10 hours after his last drink, with anxiety, tremor and nausea but no hallucinations or seizure. H…

Gastroenterology and Hepatology · Mechanisms of disease · middle twist