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CASE STUDIES Mr Nguyen and Mrs Fennech present with chest pain Mr Khan presents with chest pain Mr Winters presents with chest pain Frida presents with palpitations and breathlessness Annika presents with breathlessness and haemoptysis An asthmatic woman presents with shortness of breath A man with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presents with breathlessness and an abdominal mass A case of haematemesis A 50-year-old man presents with acute abdominal pain Anoushka presents with bloody diarrhoea A case of confusion in a man with cirrhosis Mr Perez presents with right-sided weakness A case of seizures in a young man A case of lower limb weakness Mr Quixote presents with headache A case of elevated potassium in a man of non-English speaking background A case of metabolic acidosis in a young man A case of an acutely painful knee Mrs Panetta has a painful jaw A case of needlestick injury A case of fever in a postoperative patient Bobby presents with HIV and fever Sachin presents with fever and headache A case of fever and a rash A case of fever and cough Mr Edison’s case of antibiotics and anaphylaxis Mr Darcy presents with anaemia Mr Wayne develops fever during blood transfusion Mr Papadopoulos is assessed for low sodium A case of confusion Cases of hype and hypertension on the wards A case of clots Intravenous fluids Mrs Van Dyke takes an overdose Mr Wilson presents with an acutely painful leg Bruno presents with acute flank pain

About the Author

Dr Sanjaya Senanayake (FRACP, MBBS(Hons), BSc(Med)is a fully qualified Infectious Diseases physician and a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He holds the position of Infectious Diseases Physician and Director of Hospital in the Home at Canberra Hospital. He is a faculty member of the Australian National University (ANU) Medical School where he is also ompleting a Masters in Epidemiology.