SAQ Stack : Paediatrics
Short Answer Questions for ED Fellowship Study
Infant with perioral vesicular rash
A 12-month-old boy presents with lesions around his mouth and inability to eat or drink.
Paediatric open tibial fracture
A 7-year-old boy is thrown from a horse and sustains isolated injuries to the left lower leg. An image and …
Unresponsive infant
A 6-month-old girl is brought to a tertiary ED unrousable after a nap. She was reportedly well earlier that morning. …
Neonatal bilious vomiting
A 2-week-old male infant has presented to a regional mixed ED with 3 episodes of vomiting over the past 24 …
Infant bronchiolitis
A 14-month-old girl presents with 2 days of increasing work of breathing and wheeze following a viral prodrome. Her initial …
Paediatric penetrating trauma cardiac arrest
An 8-year-old boy has been crushed by shelving while playing in a shed. During extrication a piece of metal penetrated …
Supracondylar humerus fracture
A 5-year-old girl presents after falling from monkey bars and injuring her right elbow. A lateral X-ray of the elbow …
Non-accidental injury – metaphyseal fracture
A 3-month-old boy presents as unsettled. On examination he appears to have a painful leg and an X-ray is performed.
Orbital cellulitis
A 5-year-old boy presents with progressive left eye swelling, pain and nausea.
Paediatric cardiac arrest from box jellyfish envenomation
You are working at a regional hospital in a coastal city in northern Australia. You are pre-alerted that the ambulance …
Shocked neonate
An 8-day-old infant presents hypotonic, centrally cyanotic and cool peripherally. Peripheral oxygen saturation reads 70% with poor trace. The infant …
Paediatric drowning arrest
A 3-year-old boy arrives to your urban district Emergency Department having been found at the bottom of a backyard swimming …
Stridor and croup
You are a consultant in an urban district ED when a 20-month-old girl presents with stridor and cough. She has …
Funnel-web spider bite
You are the day consultant in a large regional ED on the east coast of NSW. You have received notice …
Crashing neonate
A 6-day-old is brought to your ED, floppy and lethargic. The child was born at term by normal vaginal delivery. …
Child with PR bleeding
The concerned parents of a 4-year-old boy have presented to your urban district hospital with their son who complains of …
Paediatric HUS
A 4-year-old boy attends the Emergency Department with a 1-week history of fever and bloody diarrhoea. He is seen by …
Child polytrauma
You are the ED consultant in a tertiary hospital with a mixed ED. A 10-year-old boy has been hit by …
Toddler limp
A 2-year-old boy is brought to your ED not weight-bearing on his left leg for 5 days, progressively reluctant to …
Painful red eye
A 10-year-old boy presents to the ED with a 3-day history of fever and painful, swollen leti eye.
Neonatal jaundice
A 5 day old male who was discharged 48 hours ago from the post-natal ward has been brought in by …
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 …
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 …
Blue baby
A 4-month-old girl is brought to your ED by her parents. They describe an episode just atier feeding where she …