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Head Injury Assessment in the Emergency Department
Emergency Doctor (speaking English) and Father (speaking Afrikaans) talk through “Head Injury Assessment in the Emergency Department”. You interpret both ways — English into Afrikaans, and Afrikaans into English — one segment at a time, exactly as in the CCL test.
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Can you walk me through exactly what happened when your son fell off his skateboard this afternoon, and roughly how high up he fell from?
Hy het van sy skaatsplank afgeval terwyl hy 'n kunsie op die sypaadjie probeer doen het, omtrent een meter hoog, en hy het op sy kop geval.
Did he lose consciousness at any point after the fall, even briefly, and do you remember roughly how long that lasted?
Ja, hy was vir omtrent tien sekondes nie by sy bewussyn nie, maar hy het toe vinnig wakker geword en met my gepraat.
Has he vomited at all since the accident, or complained of a severe headache, blurred vision, or unusual drowsiness in the last hour?
Hy het nie gebraak nie, maar hy kla oor 'n erge hoofpyn en sê die ligte in die vertrek is te helder vir hom.
We'd like to do a CT scan of his head and keep him here for close observation at Royal Adelaide Hospital this evening.
Moet hy dan vannag in die hospitaal bly? Ek is bekommerd oor die koste, en ek moet ook my ander kinders by die huis kry.
We'll monitor him closely for four hours in the ward; if he becomes drowsy, confused, or vomits again, we'll act on it immediately.
Goed, dan sal ons maar bly vir die waarneming. Wat moet ek in gedagte hou as ons later huis toe gaan?
He mustn't play any contact sports for two weeks, and you should bring him straight back to Emergency if vomiting or confusion develops.
Dankie, dokter. Ek sal seker maak hy rus tuis en geen kontaksport speel nie, en ons kom dadelik terug as iets verander.
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Practice dialogue written to the CCL specification (two speakers, segments of 35 words or fewer, about 300 words). It is a practice text, not a NAATI test paper, and the AI score is this site's estimate, not a NAATI result. All Afrikaans dialogues · All languages