Results for “potassium”

A 10-day-old boy born at term is brought in with two days of poor feeding, vomiting and lethargy, and today is floppy and grey. He is afebrile, with a heart rat…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · niche

A 5-week-old boy, first child, has had one week of vomiting that occurs within 30 minutes of every feed and is now forceful, landing well away from him. The vom…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 78-year-old man presents with three days of inability to pass urine and a painful lower abdomen, on a background of months of a poor stream and nocturia. A ur…

Renal, Urology and Electrolytes · Pre-internship · niche

A 74-year-old man is on day 2 after an emergency Hartmann procedure for perforated diverticulitis. He takes spironolactone and perindopril for heart failure. He…

Renal, Urology and Electrolytes · Pre-internship · common

A 31-year-old woman presents with six months of fatigue, nausea and 7 kg of weight loss. She has been adding extra salt to everything and craves potato chips. F…

Endocrine and Metabolic · 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 9-day-old term baby is brought to a rural emergency department pale, mottled and grunting after a day of poor feeding. He is afebrile. His heart rate is 190 a…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

A three-year-old girl weighing 14 kg is found with her grandmother's dose administration aid, which contains amitriptyline. Two hours later she is drowsy with 5…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A three-year-old boy weighing 15 kg is brought to the emergency department 90 minutes after his parents found him with an open bottle of perfume containing 60%…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 14-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department by her mother three hours after being found crying in her bedroom beside an empty packet of ibuprofen…

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 10-year-old boy weighing 32 kg is admitted to the ward for observation after an appendicectomy. He is comfortable, normotensive and well perfused, has not vom…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

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 3-year-old boy is seen in general practice with a two-day blanching viral rash and is otherwise well. He is eating, playing and having his usual number of wet…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

An 8-year-old girl with chronic kidney disease is brought in vomiting after missing two dialysis sessions. She is alert and her blood pressure is 128/78 mmHg. S…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common

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 5-week-old boy is admitted after a fortnight of vomiting that now shoots across the change table after every feed. The vomit has never been green. He feeds hu…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 16-year-old girl with anorexia nervosa is reviewed in an outpatient eating disorder clinic. Over the past six weeks her weight has fallen 3 kg to 42 kg; she i…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

A 14-year-old girl has lost 9 kg over five months, restricts herself to about 800 kilojoules a day and exercises for two hours daily. Her heart rate is 58 beats…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · 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