A 28-year-old man, Kwame, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED by friends after collapsing at a nightclub. He is agitated, shouting, and attempting to climb off the trolley. Vital signs: temperature 39.4…
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A 34-year-old man, Kwame, is brought to the emergency centre at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital by his wife after she found him unresponsive in their bedroom. A charcoal brazier had been burning overni…
A 19-year-old woman, Akosua, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre by her roommate after taking 'a handful' of paracetamol tablets approximately 4 hours ago following an argument. She is alert a…
A 34-year-old man, Kwame, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED by relatives after being found confused at home. His family reports he was drinking a locally distilled spirit ('akpeteshie') the previous e…
A 45-year-old man is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre by relatives after being found unconscious at home. An empty bottle of methylated spirits was found at the scene. On arrival, he is unresp…
A 31-year-old man, Kofi, presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre with worsening agitation, diaphoresis, and muscle twitching 4 hours after taking a large quantity of citalopram in a deliberate self-…
Kwame, a 34-year-old galamsey operator from a mining community in the Western Region, is brought to the regional hospital A&E by colleagues after he collapsed in a field where brodifacoum-based rodent…
Akua, a 58-year-old seamstress with atrial fibrillation, presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre after ingesting approximately 30 tablets of her warfarin 5 mg (total ~150 mg) in a deliberate act of …
Akua, a 72-year-old woman with atrial fibrillation on warfarin, is brought to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre by ambulance after collapsing at home. Her daughter reports she has been taking her warfarin…
Ama, a 71-year-old woman with non-valvular atrial fibrillation and chronic kidney disease (eGFR 28 mL/min/1.73m²), is brought to Komfo Anokye ED by her daughter 2 hours after ingesting approximately 2…
Ama, a 68-year-old woman with a mechanical mitral valve on dabigatran 150 mg twice daily, is brought to the Komfo Anokye Emergency Department by her son after she was found confused at home. She last …
Kwame, a 58-year-old farmer from a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo, is brought to the A&E by his family after ingesting approximately 40 tablets of warfarin 5 mg (200 mg total) in a deliberate self-p…
Yaw, a 34-year-old construction worker, presents to a regional hospital A&E in the Northern Region after ingesting rat poison bait (brodifacoum-based rodenticide) approximately 72 hours ago. He report…
Ama, a 34-year-old woman, is brought to Korle Bu Emergency Centre after ingesting approximately 60 tablets of carbamazepine 200 mg (total ~12 g) in a deliberate self-harm attempt 3 hours ago. She was …
Yaw, a 22-year-old man, is found unconscious in a locked room at a hotel in Accra. Bystanders report smelling a faint bitter-almond odour. He is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre 20 minutes aft…
A 42-year-old security guard, Yaw, is brought unconscious to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre after being found collapsed in a poorly ventilated generator room where a fire had been burning for approxima…
Akua, a 28-year-old woman, is brought to the A&E of a regional hospital in Ashanti Region by her husband 45 minutes after deliberately ingesting approximately 30 tablets of 500 mg paracetamol (total e…
Kofi, a 9-year-old boy, is brought to the district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo Region by his mother approximately 2 hours after accidentally ingesting an unknown number of his pregnant mother's ferrou…
Yaa, a 35-year-old nurse, presents to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital emergency centre 6 hours after deliberately ingesting approximately 20 g of aspirin (40 tablets of 500 mg) with a large volume …
Ama, a 28-year-old woman, presents to the district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo with a 5-day history of profuse watery diarrhoea, vomiting, and severe colicky abdominal pain that began acutely after dr…
Yaw, a 38-year-old man, works as a house painter in Accra and has been employed painting older residential buildings for 12 years without respiratory or dermal protection. He presents to the Komfo Ano…
A 4-year-old boy, Kwame, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre by his mother after she noticed him eating flaking paint chips from the walls of their newly renovated home, which used imported pa…
A 4-year-old boy, Kwame, is brought to the paediatric A&E at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital by his mother after 3 days of progressive irritability, vomiting, and unsteady gait. His mother reports he h…
Kofi is a 28-year-old man who works in a small-scale gold mining operation in the Western Region of Ghana. He is brought to the Tarkwa District Hospital A&E by colleagues after a 6-hour history of sev…
Yaa is a 34-year-old woman brought to the district hospital A&E in the Upper West Region after a 10-day history of progressive weakness and numbness starting in her feet and ascending to her knees, ac…
A 7-year-old girl, Akua, is referred from a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital with a 2-week history of recurrent colicky abdominal pain, constipation, and declining sc…
Ama, a 24-year-old woman, presents to the Komfo Anokye ED in Kumasi 8 hours after deliberately ingesting approximately 30 ferrous sulphate 200 mg tablets (65 mg elemental iron each; total elemental ir…
Akua, a 28-year-old woman, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED by her family after a deliberate ingestion of approximately 30 tablets of ferrous sulphate 200 mg (total ~6 g elemental iron) taken 45 minu…
A 3-year-old boy named Kwame is brought to the district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo by his mother, who found him with an open bottle of his mother's prenatal ferrous sulphate tablets approximately 90 …
A 3-year-old boy named Kofi is brought to the district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo by his mother, approximately 90 minutes after she found him with an open bottle of her prenatal ferrous sulphate tabl…