Results for “upper airway”

A 2-year-old boy, fully immunised, wakes at 2 am with a harsh, seal-like cough and noisy breathing. He has had a runny nose for a day. In the department he has…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 31-year-old woman in her first pregnancy presents at 36 weeks with a frontal headache and "flashing lights" for six hours. Her blood pressure was 11…

Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Pre-internship · common

A 3-year-old boy is brought to a regional emergency department 30 minutes after being carried out of a house fire. There is soot around his nostrils and on his…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · common

A three-year-old girl is brought to a regional emergency department 30 minutes after drinking from an unlabelled bottle her father had decanted drain cleaner in…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 20-month-old girl is brought to a metropolitan emergency department 45 minutes after her brother saw her swallow a 20 mm lithium button battery from a remote…

Paediatrics · Pre-internship · niche

A 47-year-old man chokes on a piece of bread roll while talking at a workplace lunch. He coughs hard for a few seconds, then the coughing becomes silent and his…

Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 68-year-old man has become breathless over three weeks. He is examined sitting upright, and the right side of his chest expands less than the left. Bedside ul…

Anatomy · Foundations · middle twist

A 56-year-old man with alcohol-related cirrhosis presents with profuse vomiting of blood. He is agitated, intermittently drowsy and repeatedly coughing while bl…

Gastroenterology and Hepatology · Clinical rotations · common

A 24-year-old man presents with two days of sore throat, fever and increasing difficulty swallowing. He has muffled speech, tender cervical nodes and a grey-whi…

Infectious Diseases · Pre-internship · middle twist

A 5-month-old boy is brought to hospital with 2 days of nasal congestion, cough and reduced breastfeeds. He is alert but has subcostal recession and widespread…

Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common

A 41-year-old woman is rescued from a vehicle fire with burns encircling the chest and upper abdomen. She is intubated and ventilated, but her peak airway press…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · middle twist

A 46-year-old man is brought from a house fire with burns to his face and upper chest. He is awake, has soot around his mouth and is coughing; initially his voi…

Emergency and Toxicology · Clinical rotations · common

A 58-year-old man is receiving his first dose of intravenous vancomycin for a surgical site infection, charted to run over 60 minutes. Twenty minutes into the i…

Nursing · Clinical rotations · common

A 34-year-old schoolteacher presents with three weeks of cough. Her illness began with a runny nose and mild sore throat, after which she developed bouts of sev…

Infectious Diseases · Clinical rotations · common

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

A 67-year-old man has recurrent sinusitis, otitis and a persistent cough with occasional blood-streaked sputum. Urinalysis shows dysmorphic red cells and red-ce…

Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal · Clinical rotations · middle twist