OET Listening الجزء B: Pediatric Asthma with Pneumonia

Dr. Khan, have you got a moment?

I wanted to talk to you about polypeptide.

Sure Dr. Jones.

Polly is a 6-year-old girl with a medical history of asthma and eczema who was admitted yesterday for asthma exasperation.

She presented with shortness of breath and cough after visiting with her grandparents who are smokers.

She responded well to albuterol and prednisolone in the emergency department,

but was admitted due to persistent hypoxia in room air.

She was also given a recent dose of acetaminophen because of fever.

Her current temperature is 39.7 degrees Celsius.

How is she on auscultation?

There are significant audible expiratory wheezes throughout the left lung and in the right upper regions.

Her breathing sounds are diminished and there are an absence of wheezes towards the right base.

Possible bacterial pneumonia?

That's what I was thinking.

I'm sending her for a full range of tests to confirm.

Thanks Dr. Khan.