Results for “pharmacology”

A 9-year-old boy has a forearm fracture and needs regular oral paracetamol in the emergency department. He weighs 52 kg; the 50th centile weight for his age and…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A woman telephones the practice about her 3-week-old, who was born at term and is thriving on exclusive breastfeeding. Yesterday another doctor started her on a…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 45-year-old man with major depressive disorder has been treated for seven weeks and his mood has clearly improved. He now reports intensely vivid, unpleasant…

Psychiatry · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 63-year-old woman has taken slow-release morphine for eighteen months for pain from vertebral metastases, prescribed and reviewed monthly by her oncologist. S…

Psychiatry · Pre-internship · niche

A 26-year-old man is brought in after coming off a motorcycle at speed. He has an anterior dislocation of the left shoulder and fractures of the left pubic rami…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 63-year-old man with renal colic is receiving morphine 2.5 mg intravenously every 5 minutes on your instruction. He has now had 12.5 mg and says the pain has…

Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist