A 55-year-old woman presents to the regional hospital A&E with palpitations and mild dizziness for 2 hours. Her BP is 118/74 mmHg and HR is 150 bpm. The ECG shows a regular narrow-complex tachycardia …
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A 70-year-old man is referred from a peripheral clinic to the regional hospital A&E with palpitations. His ECG shows a regular narrow-complex tachycardia at 150 bpm. On closer inspection, sawtooth-pat…
Abena, a 38-year-old woman, attends the Korle Bu emergency centre for a routine post-discharge ECG check following a syncopal episode. She feels well. The ECG shows a rate of 72 bpm, regular rhythm, P…
A 67-year-old woman, Adwoa, is brought to the district hospital A&E with palpitations and mild breathlessness for 6 hours. Her BP is 118/76 mmHg and her pulse is irregularly irregular at 110 bpm. The …
Ama, a 60-year-old woman, is brought to the district hospital A&E with two hours of central chest pain. The ECG shows 3 mm ST elevation in leads V1–V4 with new left bundle branch block morphology. She…
Kofi, a 55-year-old man, presents to the UGMC emergency centre with a 2-hour history of palpitations and mild chest discomfort. He is haemodynamically stable with a blood pressure of 130/80 mmHg. The …
A 67-year-old woman is referred from a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo to the regional hospital A&E with palpitations and mild breathlessness for 6 hours. Her BP is 110/70 mmHg, HR 148 bpm, and SpO2 …
Kwame, a 28-year-old man, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre after a road traffic accident. He is anxious and in pain. His ECG shows a regular rhythm at 118 beats per minute, upright P waves …
Yaw, a 45-year-old man with known COPD, presents to Korle Bu emergency centre with worsening breathlessness. His HR is 112 bpm and BP is 126/78 mmHg. The ECG shows an irregular rhythm with P waves of …
Ama, a 65-year-old woman, presents to the district hospital A&E with episodic dizziness. Her resting pulse is 58 beats per minute. The ECG shows a regular sinus rhythm with P waves before every QRS co…
Yaw, a 55-year-old fisherman, presents to a district hospital in the Northern Region with a 5-day history of severe right ear pain and itching, discharge from the right ear, and pain on pulling the ri…
A 7-year-old boy named Kwame is brought to the district hospital A&E in Ashanti Region by his mother. She reports three days of right ear pain, fever, and irritability. On examination, there is tender…
A 3-year-old girl is brought to the regional hospital A&E by her father after suddenly choking on a groundnut 30 minutes ago. The choking episode has partially settled but she now has a persistent cou…
A 7-year-old boy named Kofi is brought to a district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo by his mother. He has had right ear pain and fever for two days. On examination, his temperature is 38.6°C, there is te…
A 45-year-old man is brought to the district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo by relatives after developing sudden-onset right-sided hearing loss on waking that morning. He reports mild right-sided tinnitu…
A 5-year-old girl named Ama is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED with a two-day history of right ear pain and fever. Her mother reports the child has had a cold for the past week. On otoscopy, the right …
A 6-year-old boy named Yaw is brought to the district hospital A&E in Volta Region. His mother says he pushed a small bead into his left nostril two days ago. He now has a foul-smelling, unilateral, m…
A 5-year-old girl named Ama is brought to Komfo Anokye ED with a two-day history of right ear pain and fever. Her mother reports the child has been pulling at her right ear. On examination, temperatur…
An ambulance crew responds to a construction site collapse in Kumasi. On arrival they find 25 workers injured. A 34-year-old male victim is found walking, holding his arm. He is alert, follows command…
A mass-casualty incident occurs after an explosion at a fuel depot near Takoradi. Thirty casualties are brought to the regional hospital A&E. A 22-year-old man named Kofi arrives walking and talking, …
A 55-year-old man named Mensah collapses in a market in Accra with sudden-onset crushing central chest pain. Bystanders call the ambulance service. On arrival, paramedics find him diaphoretic, pale, a…
A gas cylinder explosion at a welding workshop in Accra injures 18 workers. The first ambulance crew arrives to find multiple casualties: some walking and shouting, others lying motionless, and a few …
A 38-year-old woman named Adwoa is involved in a high-speed road traffic crash in the Eastern Region. She has an open femur fracture with active arterial bleeding, a GCS of 14, BP of 90/60 mmHg, and H…
A 19-year-old student, Mohammed, is brought to a district hospital A&E in the Upper East Region after a motorcycle collision. He was transported prone across the back of a motorbike by friends, with n…
Yaw, a 22-year-old male, is brought to a district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo by a community ambulance after sustaining a stab wound to the left side of his chest. On arrival, he is pale, tachycardic …
An ambulance crew arrives at a road traffic collision in Brong-Ahafo. A 40-year-old man, Yaw, is trapped in a vehicle with a suspected spinal injury. He is conscious, breathing spontaneously, and haem…
A Ghana NAS ambulance crew hands over a 32-year-old woman, Afia, to the Korle Bu emergency centre. She was involved in a road traffic collision 40 minutes ago. The crew's verbal handover is: 'She was …
A mass-casualty incident occurs at a football stadium in Accra following a structural collapse. The incident commander assigns triage categories using the SALT (Sort, Assess, Life-saving interventions…
A 55-year-old man is brought to a district hospital A&E in the Northern Region by relatives after a road traffic collision. He has an isolated closed femoral shaft fracture with a deformed, swollen th…
Paramedics at the scene of a road traffic crash in the Ashanti Region are preparing to transport a 45-year-old man named Kwabena who is unconscious with a GCS of 7. They contact the Komfo Anokye ED to…