Akosua, a 24-year-old woman, presents to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre with a 5-day history of pain and swelling in her right wrist and left ankle, low-grade fever, and a rash. She is sexually active …
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A 34-week preterm neonate is delivered at Tamale Teaching Hospital ED. The delivery team immediately places the infant on a radiant warmer. The baby has reasonable tone and is making some respiratory …
A 38-week neonate is delivered in the Korle Bu Emergency Centre and initially cries vigorously. At one minute of life, the infant's breathing slows markedly and the heart rate is 85 bpm. Positive pres…
A 39-week neonate is delivered at a regional hospital ED in the Brong-Ahafo Region following a prolonged labour with a tight nuchal cord. At birth, the baby is pale, limp, and apnoeic. Resuscitation p…
A 12-day-old female neonate is brought to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital emergency centre by her father, Kwame. The baby was well until day 8 when she became irritable and started feeding poorly. …
Akosua is a 28-year-old G3P2 woman who delivers a male infant at 38 weeks gestation at a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region following preterm rupture of membranes 30 hours prior to delivery. She …
A 3-day-old term male neonate born at a district hospital in the Brong-Ahafo Region is noted to have yellow sclera and skin. He was born via normal vaginal delivery after an uneventful pregnancy. Moth…
A 4-day-old term male neonate is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre by his mother, Ama. He was born via normal vaginal delivery with no perinatal complications. Breastfeeding has been establishe…
Kofi, a 47-year-old man, is evaluated in the emergency centre at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital after road traffic collision resulting in rhabdomyolysis. He received IV fluids appropriately. His 6-hour ur…
Akosua, a 58-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED by her family. She has had three days of profuse watery diarrhoea and vomiting, with minimal oral intake. She takes …
A 50-year-old man with no known medical history is brought to a district hospital A&E by relatives after being found unconscious at home. He is suspected to have been lying on the floor for at least 1…
Yaw, a 32-year-old man with no known medical history, is referred from a district hospital in the Volta Region to the Korle Bu emergency centre. He was found collapsed at home five hours ago and had s…
A 72-year-old woman with known benign prostatic hyperplasia in her husband is brought by relatives to a district hospital in the Upper East Region. She is drowsy and has not passed urine in 24 hours. …
Afia, a 54-year-old woman with hypertension and type 2 diabetes, is admitted to the Komfo Anokye ED after two days of oliguria (urine output 80 mL over the last 24 hours). She has no regular access to…
Yaw, a 72-year-old man with hypertension and type 2 diabetes, is referred from a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital after waking with dense right hemiplegia and global …
A 31-year-old man named Yaw presents to a district hospital A&E in the Northern Region with his third episode this month of severe unilateral left periorbital pain lasting approximately 45 minutes. He…
A 58-year-old man, Mohammed, is brought to a district hospital A&E in the Upper West Region after collapsing at home. He is on warfarin for a mechanical heart valve. CT head is unavailable at this fac…
A 7-year-old boy named Yaw, weighing 22 kg, is brought to a regional hospital A&E in the Northern Region after 40 minutes of continuous generalised tonic-clonic seizure activity. His mother reports he…
A 55-year-old man is brought to Korle Bu emergency centre after two generalised tonic-clonic seizures separated by incomplete recovery. He is post-ictal but no longer actively convulsing. He has a kno…
A 24-year-old woman, Afia, is brought to Korle Bu emergency centre after a prolonged episode of limb shaking lasting 25 minutes. She has a history of three similar episodes in the past 6 months, all w…
A 55-year-old woman, Abena, is brought to the emergency department of a regional hospital by her son after he found her confused and unable to speak clearly at home. He is unsure when she was last see…
A 29-year-old obese woman, Afia, presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre with a 6-week history of daily bifrontal headache and two episodes of brief visual obscurations lasting seconds. She has no f…
Kofi is a 28-year-old man brought to a regional hospital ED in the Northern Region after witnessed generalised tonic-clonic seizure activity that began approximately 8 minutes ago. He has no known his…
A 34-year-old man, Yaw, presents to a regional hospital A&E with a 6-hour history of severe right-sided throbbing headache with nausea and photophobia. He has had three similar episodes in the past ye…
A 28-year-old woman named Esi with a known history of valproate-treated juvenile myoclonic epilepsy presents to Korle Bu Emergency Centre in convulsive SE. She received IV lorazepam 0.1 mg/kg without …
A 68-year-old man named Joseph with known epilepsy on phenytoin is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre by his son. He had a single tonic-clonic seizure lasting 3 minutes, fully recovered, and is …
A 19-year-old man, Kwesi, is brought to a district hospital A&E in the Northern Region after a first-ever generalised tonic-clonic seizure lasting 3 minutes that self-terminated before arrival. He is …
Yaw, a 55-year-old man with no known medical history, is brought to the Komfo Anokye emergency department with sudden-onset severe headache, vomiting, and right-sided weakness developing over 4 hours.…
Kofi, a 62-year-old male teacher, is referred from a district hospital in the Bono Region to the regional hospital emergency department. He developed a sudden severe headache described as 'the worst o…
A 19-year-old man named Yaw presents to a district hospital A&E in the Upper West Region. He has had three discrete tonic-clonic seizures over the past 2 hours, each lasting 2-3 minutes with full reco…