SAQ Stack : Paediatrics
Short Answer Questions for ED Fellowship Study
A 4 month with fever and a rash
A 4-month-old male infant is brought to your urban district ED with 2 days of progressive irritability and fever. His …
4 year old with a rash
A 4-year-old boy presents to your urban district Emergency Department with a one-day history of fever, lethargy, and vomiting. His …
Headache, vomiting and hydrocephalus
A 10-year-old girl presents to your ED with headache and vomiting. She has a history of hydrocephalus and has a …
Ear pain
A 12-month-old girl is brought into your Emergency Department with a painful leti ear. She has been seen to pull …
Painful red eye
A 10-year-old boy presents to the ED with a 3-day history of fever and painful, swollen leti eye.
Blue baby
A 4-month-old girl is brought to your ED by her parents. They describe an episode just atier feeding where she …
Fever and limp
A 2-year-old girl is brought into your ED with 5-days of fevers and limp. Mum states she had first noticed …
10yo lethargic after recent URTI
A 10-year-old girl presents to your District Hospital ED with lethargy, subjective fevers, vomiting, diarrhoea and upper abdominal pain worsening …
Neonatal jaundice
A 5 day old male who was discharged 48 hours ago from the post-natal ward has been brought in by …
Button battery ingestion
A mother brings in her 2-year-old son who she suspects may have swallowed a buton batery sometime over the last …
Autism and agitation
An 11-year-old boy with severe autism is brought by his parents due to agitation at home. He has been punching …
Eating disorder
A 13-year-old female is brought in by her concerned mum with significant weight loss and altered behaviour over the past …
Mature minor
A 15-year-old female who is 7 weeks pregnant has presented to ED with PV bleeding. Ultrasound confirms an ectopic pregnancy …
Infant Intubation
A 6-month-old boy presents obtunded in septic shock and requires intubation.
Ketamine complication
You are in charge of a busy evening shift, when the buzzer goes off in one of the resus bays. …
DKA
A 10-year-old girl has presented to your urban district emergency department at 3pm with fever and feeling lethargic for the …
3yo with a rash
A 3-year-old girl is brought into your Emergency Department with an erythematous rash. She has no significant past medical history …
5yo with cough, fever and hypoxia
A previously well 5-year-old girl presents with cough, fever, hypoxia and R sided chest pain. She has no allergies and …
4yo fall and neck pain
You are assessing a 4-year-old girl in your emergency department. She fell from the monkey bars at her school, and …
8yo impaled on a stick
An 8-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department following a bicycle accident. She was wearing a helmet but no …