Results for “ARDS”
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A 27-year-old man had an intercostal catheter inserted through the fifth intercostal space in the midaxillary line after a crush injury to the chest. Two weeks…
Anatomy · Foundations · middle twist
A 26-year-old man is referred after a harsh systolic murmur is heard at a pre-season sports medical. He has no symptoms and plays club football. Echocardiograph…
Anatomy · Foundations · common
A 24-year-old man is stabbed in the right groin, the wound lying just below the inguinal ligament. Bleeding is controlled in the emergency department. He cannot…
Anatomy · Foundations · common
A 41-year-old man undergoes urgent debridement for a necrotising infection of the calf. Initial broad-spectrum treatment has been given, and deep tissue culture…
Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 78-year-old woman becomes agitated and repeatedly pulls at her intravenous line on the second night after hip surgery. She alternates between asking where she…
Geriatrics and Palliative Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 74-year-old man is referred after three falls over two months. He describes a brief feeling of faintness after rising from a chair, without spinning sensation…
Geriatrics and Palliative Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 35-year-old primigravida at 37 weeks’ gestation is found to have blood pressure readings of 148/96 and 146/94 mmHg 4 hours apart. Urine protein is 2+, platele…
Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 64-year-old man is recovering in hospital four days after an inferior ST-elevation myocardial infarction treated with primary percutaneous coronary interventi…
Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 36-year-old man with schizophrenia attends with his sister after stopping risperidone. He hears a voice commenting on his actions but is calm, has no thoughts…
Ethics and Professional Practice · Pre-internship · common
A 30-hour-old boy develops jaundice and pallor. He is feeding reasonably well and has mild splenomegaly. His mother is blood group O positive and he is group B…
Paediatrics · Mechanisms of disease · middle twist
An 82-year-old woman is assessed after falling in her kitchen. She remembers reaching for a shelf but denies spinning, loss of consciousness, palpitations or li…
Geriatrics and Palliative Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 62-year-old woman is reviewed three months after a large anterior myocardial infarction. She has mild exertional breathlessness but no recurrent chest pain; t…
Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · common
A 67-year-old man is recovering on the fourth day after an inferior myocardial infarction treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention. He suddenly d…
Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · common
A 26-year-old man with schizophrenia stopped taking lorazepam prescribed for recurrent episodes of immobility and mutism. Two days later he is mute, alternates…
Psychiatry and Mental Health · Clinical rotations · niche
A 54-year-old woman has progressive exertional dyspnoea. Spirometry shows a forced expiratory volume in one second of 2.4 L (reference greater than 2.0 L) and a…
Biomedical Science · Mechanisms of disease · middle twist
A registered nurse on night shift realises she has written a progress note about one patient in a different patient's paper medical record. The entry is factual…
Nursing · Clinical rotations · common
A 24-year-old woman presents to the emergency department two hours after impulsively swallowing 32 tablets of 500 mg immediate-release paracetamol (16 g) follow…
Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 47-year-old Aboriginal man from a regional town has type 2 diabetes and hypertension, for which metformin, perindopril and rosuvastatin are prescribed. At rev…
General Practice and Population Health · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 23-year-old man presents with a five-day history of worsening sore throat, and swallowing has become so painful that he is spitting his saliva into a cup. His…
Eyes, Ears, Nose and Throat · Clinical rotations · common
A 78-year-old man from a residential aged care facility, with long-standing constipation, presents with three days of increasing abdominal distension and no pas…
Gastroenterology and Hepatology · Clinical rotations · common