6 Scenarios contain the text: 'hearing loss' |
| Title | Description |
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| Congenital hearing loss | A 4 month old Māori baby is sent to paediatric outpatients as he failed his newborn audiology screen and missed his planned repeat testing. His mother is concerned that he does not hear and he is not babbling or laughing. D/O: Nervous System (•••), Otorhinolaryngology (•••), Paediatrics (•••) PTT: Child health |
| Hearing loss | A 78 year old Samoan man visits his GP, concerned about his hearing. He is a retired baggage handler and used to work at Auckland International Airport. His family has been complaining that he watches TV with the volume too loud. D/O: Otorhinolaryngology (•••), Nervous System (••) PTT: ENT |
| Glue ear | A 4 year old Māori girl is brought to the GP by her mother because she is having difficulty hearing. On otoscopy you see bilateral retracted tympanic membranes. D/O: General Practice (•••), Hauora Māori (•••), Otorhinolaryngology (•••), Paediatrics (•••), Epidemiology (•), Population Health (•) PTT: ENT |
| Chronic illness in paediatrics | A 12 year old Samoan girl presents to Emergency Department with her mother after a fall from her wheelchair during a seizure. They have a recent outpatient clinic letter which outlines her past medical history to include spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy from birth; she is wheelchair-bound and fully dependent for all self-cares. She has epilepsy and global developmental delay and is nonverbal. She has had a gastrostomy for night feeding since 4 years of age and has orthopaedic problems including scoliosis and tendoachilles contractures. She has bronchiectasis with two previous episodes of severe pneumonia, the last of which 6 months ago required a prolonged admission and she now remains on nocturnal VPAP (variable positive airway pressure). She attends the local intermediate school via satellite class and has multiple community services involved in her schooling, transport and therapy. D/O: Paediatrics (•••), Nervous System (••), Neurology (••), Orthopaedics (••), Respiratory Medicine (••), Musculoskeletal System (•), Respiratory System (•) PTT: Child health |
| Dizziness and vertigo | A 45 year old Chinese female who helps run her family's furniture store comes to see her GP. She is a frequent attender and on this visit she complains of dizziness, ringing in her ears and feeling like she's veering to one-side when walking. Her medication history reveals she is taking a herbal remedy prescribed by a traditional Chinese medicine consultant. D/O: Nervous System (•••), Neurology (•••), Otorhinolaryngology (•••), General Practice (••) PTT: ENT |
| Fever and headache | A 17 year old NZ European man presents with a severe headache and a fever. He was well yesterday and played football after school. On examination he is sleepy, febrile, tachycardic and has neck stiffness. D/O: Infectious Diseases (•••), Microbiology (•••), Intensive Care Medicine (••), Paediatrics (••), Nervous System (•), Neurology (•) PTT: Infectious disease, Seriously ill patient |
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