A 19-year-old female student is brought to a regional hospital ED in the Ashanti Region by her parents. She was started on lamotrigine 7 weeks ago for a generalised seizure disorder. Over the past 2 w…
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A 22-year-old university student named Yaw presents to a regional hospital ED in Ashanti Region with 3 days of painful mouth ulcers, red eyes, and dysuria. He started lamotrigine 6 weeks ago for bipol…
A chemical tanker explodes on the Tema Industrial Area, releasing an unknown vapour. Forty-three workers are brought to the Tema General Hospital ED. Several patients have pinpoint pupils, profuse sec…
A building collapses during the rainy season in Kumasi, trapping 40 construction workers. Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital activates its hospital disaster plan. The hospital incident commander assigns t…
A 34-year-old woman, Abena, presents to the emergency centre at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital with facial bruising, a split lip, and a tender right forearm. She says she fell down the stairs. Her hus…
A 26-year-old woman, Fatima, presents to Korle Bu emergency centre 14 hours after a sexual assault. She reports the perpetrator is known to her. She has bathed and changed clothes. On examination, BP …
A 19-year-old woman, Akosua, is brought to the emergency department of a regional hospital in Ashanti by a friend at 02:00. She states she was sexually assaulted at a party approximately three hours a…
A 23-year-old woman, Abena, is assessed at the SGBV unit of a tertiary hospital 36 hours after a penile-vaginal assault by an unknown perpetrator. She is HIV-negative on rapid testing performed today.…
A 34-year-old man, Kofi, presents to a district hospital emergency room after being assaulted and bitten on the forearm by his male partner during a domestic dispute. The wound is a human bite with vi…
A 14-year-old girl, Yaa, is brought to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital emergency centre by her aunt. The aunt reports that Yaa disclosed being repeatedly sexually abused by a male household member over…
Kwame, a 68-year-old retired teacher, presents to the district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo with a 2-day history of mild exertional dizziness and fatigue. He is haemodynamically stable with a blood pre…
Mohammed, a 72-year-old retired civil servant with a history of ischaemic heart disease and previous inferior MI, presents to a district hospital A&E in the Northern Region with a three-hour history o…
Kwame, a 19-year-old male student, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre after collapsing during a 400-metre race at the University of Ghana sports day. Bystanders report that he had a witnessed…
Yaw, a 67-year-old man with known primary hyperparathyroidism and hypertension, presents to the regional hospital A&E in the Ashanti Region with three days of progressive confusion, constipation, and …
Abena, a 45-year-old woman with HIV on antiretroviral therapy, presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre with recurrent episodes of palpitations and presyncope over 48 hours. She was started on azithr…
Kofi, a 28-year-old man with no prior cardiac history, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre after collapsing during a 5 km road race. Bystanders report he lost consciousness briefly but recover…
Kofi, a 28-year-old male medical student, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre with sudden-onset palpitations, mild chest tightness, and near-syncope. He has had two prior similar episodes that…
Mohammed, a 68-year-old man with a 20-year history of COPD, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED in Kumasi in acute respiratory distress. He is hypoxic (SpO2 82% on room air) and tachycardic. His current…
Yaw, a 52-year-old man with a 10-year history of COPD on salbutamol and theophylline, is brought to a district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo in moderate respiratory distress and palpitations for 3 hours…
Kofi, a 28-year-old male teacher, presents to a regional hospital A&E in the Ashanti Region with a 2-hour history of rapid palpitations and mild breathlessness. He is haemodynamically stable with a bl…
Mohammed, a 31-year-old male, is brought to the Tamale Teaching Hospital ED after a syncopal episode during a football match. Bystanders describe a brief loss of consciousness lasting approximately 30…
Kofi, a 55-year-old man with known hypertension and a recent right total knee replacement 10 days ago, is brought to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre with acute dyspnoea, presyncope, and right-sided pleu…
Kofi, a 47-year-old male trader with no known medical history, is brought by taxi to a district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo with 90 minutes of severe crushing chest pain radiating to the jaw and left …
Yaa, a 55-year-old woman with hypertension, presents to a regional hospital A&E in the Ashanti Region with a 1-hour history of palpitations and mild chest tightness. She has no prior cardiac history. …
Akua, a 45-year-old woman with no known cardiac history, is brought to a regional hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo after a witnessed syncopal episode. She is now conscious but anxious. Blood pressure is 11…
Ama, a 47-year-old woman with no known cardiac history, presents to a district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo with palpitations and mild lightheadedness for 45 minutes. She is haemodynamically stable wit…
Mohammed, a 55-year-old man with no documented cardiac history, presents to a district hospital in the Upper West Region with sudden-onset palpitations and mild dyspnoea. He is haemodynamically stable…
A 55-year-old man named Mensah is admitted to a district hospital A&E in the Brong-Ahafo Region after intentional ingestion of amlodipine tablets. He is bradycardic, confused, and his blood glucose on…
A 12-year-old boy, Mohammed, presents to the Komfo Anokye ED with three weeks of right ear discharge, worsening headache, and two days of diplopia. His mother reports he was seen at a clinic four week…
A 9-year-old girl, Abena, is referred to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre from a district hospital in the Central Region with a two-day history of left-sided post-auricular swelling and fever following a…