Results for “diabetes”
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A 9-year-old girl weighing 30 kg presents in diabetic ketoacidosis as the first presentation of type 1 diabetes: pH 7.02, glucose 34 mmol/L, bicarbonate 6 mmol/…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
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 45-year-old man wakes to find the left side of his face drooping. When he tries to raise his eyebrows only the right side moves, and he cannot fully close his…
Neurology · Clinical rotations · common
A 61-year-old man presents with 24 hours of severe pain, redness and swelling of his right first metatarsophalangeal joint, left ankle and right knee. He has ha…
Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 6-year-old Aboriginal boy attends a Perth general practice with his mother for a certificate to return to school after chickenpox. He is well, fully immunised…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · 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
A 12-year-old Aboriginal girl from a remote community has been admitted to a tertiary hospital with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes. English is the family's fir…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 15-year-old girl with type 1 diabetes since the age of nine attends the clinic with her father. Her glycated haemoglobin has risen steadily over 12 months. He…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 9-year-old girl with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes has been on the paediatric ward for eight hours receiving intravenous fluid and an insulin infusion for k…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche
A 9-year-old boy has two years of worsening exercise intolerance, drooping eyelids and newly fitted hearing aids. You take a family history to draw a pedigree.…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 28-year-old woman who has had type 1 diabetes since she was twelve asks how to prepare for a pregnancy she hopes to start in about six months. Her most recent…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A boy is born at 39 weeks weighing 4450 g to a woman whose gestational diabetes required insulin from 28 weeks. The birth was complicated by shoulder dystocia r…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
An 11-year-old girl has just been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and will start insulin today. She is quiet, and her only questions are whether the injections w…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 14-year-old girl who has had type 1 diabetes since she was eight is reviewed in the paediatric diabetes clinic. Her glycated haemoglobin has risen over twelve…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 9-year-old boy is referred to a paediatric clinic because his weight is above the 97th centile. Both parents are overweight, he spends most of his free time o…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 44-year-old man is admitted under your team after a myocardial infarction. Genetic testing has confirmed familial hypercholesterolaemia and the lipid clinic h…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 12-year-old Aboriginal boy is seen at a community clinic for a sports form. His body mass index is well above the 95th centile for age. His mother mentions th…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 9-year-old girl has had five months of intermittent central abdominal pain, worst on school mornings. Her parents separated six months ago and she has missed…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 14-year-old girl is brought by her mother because her marks have dropped over three months, she has quit netball, and she is irritable and withdrawn. Her pare…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 12-year-old boy attends with his mother. His body mass index for age is above the 99.7th percentile on his growth chart, having been on the 92nd percentile at…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist