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A couple attend for genetic counselling. Their 3-year-old son has cystic fibrosis, confirmed by newborn screening and genotyping; both parents are carriers of a…
Paediatrics · Foundations · common
A 5-week-old boy has vomited after feeds for three weeks. The milk now comes back forcefully enough to reach the floor, and he immediately wants to feed again.…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 5-month-old boy born at term has had a runny nose for three days and is now feeding poorly. His temperature is 37.8 degrees Celsius and respiratory rate 56, w…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 6-year-old boy with cystic fibrosis is admitted for his third pulmonary exacerbation this year. His mother tells the team she resigned from her job to manage…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 16-month-old girl who arrived in Australia from overseas six months ago is brought to a general practice because she is not gaining weight. Her weight has fal…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 4-day-old term boy, discharged home yesterday and feeding well until this morning, has vomited four times in six hours. The vomit is dark green. He passed mec…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A couple attend at nine weeks of a planned pregnancy. Their first child has cystic fibrosis, and both parents are known carriers of the same CFTR variant. They…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 17-year-old man with cystic fibrosis has attended the same paediatric respiratory clinic since infancy and will move to the adult service next year. His mothe…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 5-month-old boy is brought to a regional general practice because he "is not filling out". Born at term weighing 3.4 kg, he tracked along the 50th centile unt…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 5-month-old boy is brought by his mother, who has been told at the child health clinic that he is under the line and is frightened that something is being mis…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
You are the intern on the postnatal ward. The newborn screening laboratory telephones about a 5-day-old girl: the immunoreactive trypsinogen was raised on the b…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common
A 63-year-old man collapses in an emergency department waiting room. He is shocked once for ventricular fibrillation and a palpable pulse returns after four min…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 9-month-old girl is brought to the emergency department with three days of runny nose and moist cough, and one day of fast, noisy breathing. She is taking abo…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common