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A 2-year-old boy weighing 12 kg has had two days of vomiting and profuse watery diarrhoea. He is now floppy and barely responsive, with cool mottled legs, a cap…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 14-month-old girl is brought to a rural general practice with three days of watery diarrhoea and vomiting. She is alert and playing, her lips are dry, her cap…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 3-year-old girl who arrived from Ethiopia six months ago is screened after her grandmother, who shares the house, was diagnosed with smear-positive pulmonary…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 13-month-old girl attends for a routine check. She is well and walking, and her weight and length are on the 75th centile. Her parents want to stop buying inf…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 6-week-old boy is brought to a general practice for a routine check. He was born at term weighing 3.2 kg and now weighs 4.0 kg. He is formula fed, taking 90 m…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 15-year-old girl attends a general practice with her mother, who is worried that she has stopped eating properly and has lost weight. Her mother says she has…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
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 7-month-old girl is referred to a paediatric clinic with slow weight gain. Her weight has fallen from the 50th to the 9th centile over three months while her…
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 4-month-old girl with a large ventricular septal defect is reviewed before surgical repair. She breastfeeds every two hours but takes 40 minutes each time, sw…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 9-month-old boy is brought by his mother, who is worried he is too small because her sister's baby of the same age is much bigger. He was born at term weighin…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 14-month-old girl who is still breastfed and has had no supplements is referred because she is not yet walking and her legs look bowed. Her mother has dark sk…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 20-month-old boy of Greek-Australian parents is investigated for pallor and irritability. He drinks about 1.2 litres of full-cream milk a day from a bottle, i…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 7-month-old girl is brought to a rural general practice. Her weight has fallen from the 50th centile to below the 0.4th centile over three months; her length…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 6-year-old boy is seen for a routine check. His mother says he has always been "solidly built", like his father. He is 1.18 m tall and weighs 30 kg, giving a…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 7-month-old boy is brought to the emergency department by his 19-year-old mother because of a cold. His weight has crossed from the 50th percentile at 4 month…
Paediatrics · Pre-internship · 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
A 7-year-old girl is brought because her school photograph shows her much shorter than her friends. At 4 years of age her height and weight were both on the 50t…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 6-month-old boy attends with his mother for a routine check. He is exclusively breastfed, thriving and well, and has had no solid food. He has had moderate ec…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 19-year-old university student with anorexia nervosa is admitted to a medical ward weighing 38 kg (body mass index 14.2 kg/m2). Her heart rate is 40 beats per…
Psychiatry · Pre-internship · middle twist