Pocket Guide to Internship: Common Clinical Cases

1 Mr Nguyen and Mrs Fennech present with chest pain

2Mr Khan presents with chest pain

3Mr Winters presents with chest pain

4Frida presents with palpitations and breathlessness

5Annika presents with breathlessness and haemoptysis

6An asthmatic woman presents with shortness of breath

7A man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presents with breathlessness and an abdominal mass

8Mrs Mason presents with haematemesis

9Timothy presents with acute abdominal pain

10Anoushka presents with bloody diarrhoea

11A case of confusion in a man with cirrhosis

12Mr Perez presents with right-sided weakness

13Marwan presents with seizures

14Mrs Flint presents with lower limb weakness

15Mr Quixote presents with headache

16A case of elevated potassium in a man of non-English-speaking background

17Sasha presents with metabolic acidosis

18A case of an acutely painful knee

19Mrs Panetta has a painful jaw

20Emmanuel suffers a needlestick injury

21McGyver has postoperative fever

22Bobby presents with HIV and fever

23Sachin presents with fever and headache

24Jean-Paul presents with fever and a rash

25Ruby presents with fever and cough

26Mr Edisons case of antibiotics and anaphylaxis

27Mr Darcy presents with anaemia

28Mr Wayne develops fever during blood transfusion

29Mr Papadopoulos is assessed for low sodium

30Mr Caesar presents with confusion

31Cases of hype and hypertension on the wards

32A case of clots

33Intravenous fluids

34Mrs Van Dyke takes an overdose

35Mr Wilson presents with an acutely painful leg

36Bruno presents with acute flank pain

37 Indiana returns from overseas with fever