Results for “cardiology”

A 4-year-old girl is found to have a heart murmur at a routine health check. She is thriving on the 50th centile, runs around the playground without becoming sh…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 62-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes is booked for an elective laparoscopic right hemicolectomy for a caecal cancer in one week. She will be fasting from mi…

Surgery and Perioperative Care · Pre-internship · niche

A 6-day-old term girl, home since day two and feeding well until this morning, is brought in mottled and lethargic. Heart rate is 186 per minute, respiratory ra…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 16-year-old netballer attends for a pre-participation examination. She is asymptomatic. The femoral pulses are strong and synchronous with the radial pulses.…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 16-year-old girl asks you to sign a clearance form for state-level netball. Twice this year she has collapsed without warning, once in the third quarter of a…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common

A 62-year-old man is reviewed in the cardiology clinic eight weeks after an anterior myocardial infarction. He meets criteria for a moderate depressive episode…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche

A 24-year-old man with treatment-resistant schizophrenia is on day 18 of clozapine, now 250 mg at night. He is febrile at 38.4 degrees Celsius with a pulse of 1…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche

A 47-year-old man is reviewed in the cardiology clinic after a single episode of loss of consciousness while sitting at his desk. There was no warning and no pa…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · niche

A 66-year-old man is admitted with melaena from a duodenal ulcer and undergoes successful endoscopic haemostasis. He has taken aspirin 100 mg daily since a myoc…

Cardiovascular · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 64-year-old woman has had an estimated glomerular filtration rate of 26 mL/min/1.73 m² on two measurements 4 months apart. Her urine albumin:creatinine ratio…

Haematology and Oncology · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 39-year-old male presents to the emergency department with sudden onset of pleuritic chest pain that worsens with a supine position and relieves with leaning…

Year 2 · Mechanisms of disease · common