Results for “respiratory”

An 81-year-old man is admitted with a fractured neck of femur and becomes inattentive and disorganised over 24 hours. His level of alertness fluctuates, but he…

Geriatrics and Palliative Care · Clinical rotations · common

A 79-year-old woman with a previous stroke develops fever, cough and a new right lower-zone infiltrate 36 hours after vomiting during a meal. She is alert, has…

Infectious Diseases · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 72-year-old man is admitted with pneumonia after three days of fever, cough and increasing breathlessness. He is alert, but his respiratory rate is 34/min and…

Infectious Diseases · Clinical rotations · common

A 68-year-old man presents with a two-day history of fever, productive cough and pleuritic chest pain. He is alert, has a respiratory rate of 32/min, blood pres…

Respiratory · Clinical rotations · common

A 27-year-old man is bitten while walking through long grass near Tamworth, New South Wales. He brings a photograph of a slender brown snake, but the species ca…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 58-year-old man is brought to the emergency department after being found drowsy beside an empty bottle of methadone mixture. He has a respiratory rate of 7/mi…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 64-year-old man becomes hypotensive shortly after reperfusion of an inferior ST-elevation myocardial infarction. He is distressed but has clear breath sounds,…

Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · common

A 46-year-old woman presents with fatigue, jaundice and dark urine that began after a respiratory infection. She has mild splenomegaly but no renal or neurologi…

AMC · Clinical rotations · common

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 laboratory technician is found unconscious in a poorly ventilated garage. Arterial blood shows pH 7.39, PaO2 13.0 kPa (reference 10.7–13.3 kPa), and PaCO2 5.1…

Biomedical Science · Mechanisms of disease · common

A 68-year-old man develops sudden pleuritic chest pain and tachypnoea after prolonged immobility. Arterial blood gas analysis on room air shows pH 7.48, PaCO2 3…

Biomedical Science · Mechanisms of disease · common

A 58-year-old man is receiving his first dose of intravenous vancomycin for a surgical site infection, charted to run over 60 minutes. Twenty minutes into the i…

Nursing · Clinical rotations · common

A 68-year-old man is on the surgical ward 6 hours after an open appendicectomy. The nurse records a respiratory rate of 28 breaths/min, heart rate 132/min, bloo…

Nursing · Pre-internship · common

A 17-year-old girl presents six hours after a deliberate ingestion of tablets taken from the family bathroom cabinet. She complains of nausea, repeated vomiting…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 21-year-old man collapses at the 14 km mark of a city fun run on a 34°C day. In the trackside medical tent he is confused and agitated with a Glasgow Coma Sca…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common

A 34-year-old man in suburban Sydney felt a sharp pinprick on the back of his hand while moving pot plants stacked against the house. Over the next two hours he…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 32-year-old woman develops widespread urticaria, lip swelling and wheeze within 15 minutes of eating a satay dish at a restaurant. On arrival of paramedics he…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · common

A 17-year-old girl is admitted for nutritional rehabilitation. She weighs 39 kg with a height of 168 cm, having lost 15 kg over six months through severe dietar…

Psychiatry and Mental Health · Clinical rotations · common

A 28-year-old man with schizophrenia that failed to respond to two previous antipsychotics has been taking clozapine for four months with good effect. He presen…

Psychiatry and Mental Health · Clinical rotations · common

A 24-day-old girl is brought to the emergency department after her mother measured an axillary temperature of 38.3°C at home. She was born at term after an unco…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common