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Abdominal Trauma · Seat-belt sign and bowel injury ★ HY difficulty 3/5

Afia, a 34-year-old woman, presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre after a motor vehicle crash. She was a restrained rear-seat passenger. She is haemodynamically stable: BP 126/82 mmHg, HR 88/min, R…

Abdominal Trauma · FAST scan interpretation ★ HY difficulty 2/5

A 28-year-old man, Kofi, is brought to Komfo Anokye ED after a high-speed road traffic collision. He is restless and diaphoretic. Vitals: BP 88/60 mmHg, HR 128 bpm, RR 24/min, SpO2 96% on 15L O2. FAST…

Abdominal Trauma · Pelvic binding ★ HY difficulty 2/5

A 35-year-old woman, Akosua, is referred from a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo after a motor vehicle crash. On arrival at the regional hospital A&E, her BP is 74/50 mmHg and HR is 138 bpm. The pelvi…

Abdominal Trauma · Splenic injury grading ★ HY difficulty 3/5

A 19-year-old male footballer, Yaw, is brought to Korle Bu emergency centre after sustaining a direct blow to the left upper abdomen. He is haemodynamically stable: BP 118/76 mmHg, HR 94 bpm. CT abdom…

Acid-Base Disorders · Winter's formula and mixed acid-base disturbances in DKA ★ HY difficulty 4/5

A 19-year-old woman, Esi, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre by friends after being found confused in her university hostel. She is known to have type 1 diabetes and missed her insulin doses …

Acid-Base Disorders · High anion gap metabolic acidosis - toxic alcohol ★ HY difficulty 4/5

A 45-year-old woman named Ama presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre with a two-day history of altered consciousness and vomiting. Her husband reports she has been consuming large quantities of loc…

Acid-Base Disorders · Delta-delta ratio and mixed acid-base disturbances ★ HY difficulty 4/5

A 60-year-old man named Mensah with a 20-year history of type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease (baseline creatinine 280 micromol/L) presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre with worsening dyspno…

Acid-Base Disorders · High vs normal anion gap metabolic acidosis differentials ★ HY difficulty 2/5

A 52-year-old man named Kwabena is referred from a district hospital in the Northern Region to Tamale Teaching Hospital with a three-day history of profuse watery diarrhoea and abdominal cramps. He ha…

Acid-Base Disorders · Winter's formula for respiratory compensation in metabolic acidosis ★ HY difficulty 3/5

A 34-year-old woman named Akua is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED by relatives after a witnessed generalised tonic-clonic seizure at home. She is known to have type 1 diabetes mellitus and was reported…

Acid-Base Disorders · Delta-delta ratio and mixed acid-base disturbances ★ HY difficulty 5/5

A 52-year-old man, Kwabena, is referred from a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo to Komfo Anokye ED with a 2-day history of generalised weakness, anorexia, and decreased urine output. He has type 2 dia…

Acute Abdomen · Ruptured AAA - recognition and resuscitation ★ HY difficulty 3/5

Akua, a 72-year-old woman with known hypertension and a 40 pack-year smoking history, is brought to Korle Bu Emergency Centre by her son complaining of sudden-onset tearing back and flank pain that be…

Acute Abdomen · Acute cholangitis - Reynold's pentad ★ HY difficulty 3/5

Akosua, a 52-year-old woman with a known history of gallstones, is brought to Korle Bu emergency centre with a 6-hour history of right upper quadrant pain, jaundice, and high-grade fever with rigors. …

Acute Abdomen · Mesenteric ischaemia - pathophysiology and recognition ★ HY difficulty 4/5

Ama, a 72-year-old woman with known atrial fibrillation on no anticoagulation, presents to the regional hospital A&E with 4 hours of severe, diffuse abdominal pain that she describes as 'out of propor…

Acute Abdomen · Mesenteric ischaemia - recognition ★ HY difficulty 3/5

A 72-year-old woman with known atrial fibrillation is brought to Komfo Anokye ED by her family with a 3-hour history of severe central abdominal pain disproportionate to her examination findings, and …

Acute Abdomen · Ruptured AAA - recognition and management ★ HY difficulty 3/5

A 67-year-old man, Kwame, is brought by relatives to the Komfo Anokye ED with sudden-onset, severe periumbilical pain radiating to his back that began 2 hours ago. He has a history of hypertension and…

Acute Abdomen · Ruptured AAA - immediate management ★ HY difficulty 3/5

Yaw, a 68-year-old hypertensive man, is brought by relatives to Korle Bu emergency centre with sudden-onset severe back and abdominal pain. Vitals: HR 124 bpm, BP 82/50 mmHg, RR 26/min, SpO2 94% on ai…

Acute Abdomen · Appendicitis - initial management ★ HY difficulty 2/5

A 28-year-old man, Kwame, presents to the regional hospital A&E in Kumasi with a 24-hour history of periumbilical pain that has migrated to the right iliac fossa. He is febrile at 38.4°C, HR 102 bpm, …

Acute Abdomen · Cholangitis - Reynolds pentad recognition ★ HY difficulty 3/5

Akua, a 45-year-old obese woman, presents to a district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo with a 6-hour history of right upper quadrant pain radiating to her right shoulder tip, fever (38.9°C), jaundice, an…

Acute Abdomen · Appendicitis - Alvarado score and management pathway ★ HY difficulty 2/5

Yaw, a 28-year-old male university student, presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre with a 24-hour history of periumbilical pain that has migrated to the right iliac fossa. He has anorexia, nausea, …

Acute Abdomen · Perforated viscus - sepsis and surgical management ★ HY difficulty 2/5

Kofi, a 55-year-old man with a background of peptic ulcer disease, presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre with sudden-onset, severe epigastric pain that began 3 hours ago and has since spread to in…

Acute Abdomen · Mesenteric ischaemia - pathophysiology and lactate ★ HY difficulty 4/5

A 68-year-old man, Mensah, is brought by relatives to the regional hospital A&E in Kumasi after sudden onset of severe, diffuse abdominal pain beginning 3 hours ago. He has a history of atrial fibrill…

Airway Emergencies · Foreign body obstruction — modification for pregnancy ★ HY difficulty 4/5

Fatima, a 34-year-old woman who is 36 weeks pregnant, collapses in the waiting area of a regional hospital in the Upper West Region. A bystander reports she was eating groundnut soup when she suddenly…

Airway Management · MMHANS for difficult BVM ★ HY difficulty 3/5

A 63-year-old woman, Afia, is brought unconscious to the Korle Bu emergency centre by her family. She is a known hypertensive and type 2 diabetic. She is edentulous (no teeth), with a large tongue, a …

Airway Management · Jaw thrust in suspected C-spine injury ★ HY difficulty 2/5

A 45-year-old man is brought to Korle Bu Emergency Centre after a road traffic accident. He is unconscious with a GCS of 6 (E1V2M3) and has a suspected cervical spine injury. The airway nurse begins B…

Airway Management · Indications for AFOI — cervical spine pathology ★ HY difficulty 3/5

A 67-year-old woman, Adwoa, is referred from a district hospital in the Brong-Ahafo region to the Komfo Anokye ED with known severe ankylosing spondylitis and a fractured right neck of femur after a f…

Airway Management · Failed intubation rescue — second-generation SGA ★ HY difficulty 3/5

A 34-year-old woman, Akosua, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED after a road traffic accident. She is unconscious with a GCS of 7, BP 110/70 mmHg, HR 104 bpm, SpO2 88% on 15 L/min oxygen via non-rebrea…

Airway Management · Paediatric CICO — needle cricothyroidotomy ★ HY difficulty 4/5

Ama, a 7-year-old girl (weight approximately 22 kg), is brought to a regional hospital ED in the Volta Region after ingesting a button battery 2 hours ago. She develops acute stridor, increasing respi…

Airway Management · NODESAT apnoeic oxygenation ★ HY difficulty 4/5

During a difficult intubation attempt in the Korle Bu Emergency Centre, a 55-year-old man, Kofi, with a predicted difficult airway (Mallampati IV, short thyromental distance) has been apnoeic for 45 s…

Airway Management · AFOI preparation — anti-sialagogue ★ HY difficulty 2/5

The emergency medicine team at Korle Bu is preparing a 44-year-old man, Kofi, with a large anterior mediastinal mass for awake fibreoptic intubation. He has positional dyspnoea — symptoms worsen drama…

Airway Management · RSI — Preparation ★ HY difficulty 2/5

A 34-year-old man, Kwame, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED after a road traffic accident. He is unresponsive with a GCS of 6 (E1V2M3), has noisy airway sounds, and smells of alcohol. Vitals: BP 148/9…