Results for “coma”

A 14-year-old boy is worried that he is the shortest in his class and has no signs of puberty. His height is on the 3rd centile and his weight on the 10th; his…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 22-year-old man was struck on the right temple by a cricket ball three hours ago in a country town. He was briefly unconscious, then walked off the field and…

Emergency and Toxicology · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 79-year-old man on apixaban for atrial fibrillation is brought in by his wife. Over three weeks he has become slower, sleeps much of the day, has twice lost t…

Neurology · Clinical rotations · common

A 19-year-old woman presents six hours after taking 30 × 500 mg paracetamol tablets in a single impulsive act following an argument. She also took "a few&q…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 68-year-old woman with recently diagnosed small cell lung cancer is brought in after a generalised tonic-clonic seizure at home. Over three days she has becom…

Renal, Urology and Electrolytes · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 3-year-old girl weighing 15 kg is brought in one hour after swallowing tablets from her mother's iron bottle. Each tablet contains 65 mg of elemental iron and…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A mother brings her 18-month-old son to the general practice for a routine check. Her own mother has just moved in and keeps her tablets in a weekly pill organi…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

An 18-month-old boy is brought to a rural emergency department after being found in a farm shed beside a spilt container, with his clothing wet. He is drowsy bu…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A two-year-old girl weighing 12 kg is brought to a regional emergency department 90 minutes after being found with her mother's iron tablets. The pack accounts…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A girl born at 38 weeks weighs 2.2 kg and her head circumference is well below the third centile. Scattered purple-red spots over the trunk do not blanch, and t…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 13-year-old boy is brought to the emergency department with six weeks of ache in the left knee, worse after football and now making him limp. There has been n…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 14-year-old boy is brought by his parents because he is the shortest in his class and has no signs of puberty. His height is on the 3rd centile and he has gro…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 79-year-old woman was started on sertraline three weeks ago for her first depressive episode. Her daughter brings her to the emergency department because over…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 68-year-old woman comes to the emergency department at 10 pm with four hours of severe right-sided headache and vomiting that began while she was watching a f…

Ophthalmology · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 71-year-old man with long-standing poorly controlled hypertension wakes to find the vision in his left eye blurred. There is no pain, no flashing lights and n…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · common

A 76-year-old man with long-standing asthma has needed his reliever most nights for six weeks and now wakes twice a night wheezing. His preventer, budesonide wi…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 28-year-old man has had a deep ache in the right eye for three days with blurred vision. The right eye is red, most intensely in a narrow ring around the corn…

Ophthalmology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 9-year-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department after a heavy tackle at football. He is alert and orientated with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 1…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · niche

A 31-year-old man is intubated in the emergency department after falling from a roof and is transferred to the intensive care unit. Sedation has been withheld f…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 58-year-old man is found collapsed at home and brought to the emergency department. He does not respond when his name is called loudly and does not open his e…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist