Kwame, a 28-year-old footballer, is brought to the A&E of a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo after a collision on the pitch. He holds his right arm in slight abduction and external rotation, and there…
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A 19-year-old woman, Abena, is brought to a district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo by her mother. She has not slept for five days, is spending money recklessly, believes she has been chosen by God to ru…
A 45-year-old man is brought to Komfo Anokye ED by relatives after ingesting an unknown quantity of paracetamol tablets approximately two hours ago following an argument with his wife. He is alert and…
Yaa, a 38-year-old woman with known schizophrenia, is brought to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre by her husband. She stopped her depot antipsychotic three months ago and has been increasingly paranoid, …
Abena, a 34-year-old woman, is brought to the Korle Bu A&E by police under emergency powers after neighbours reported she had been barricaded in her flat for 3 days, not eating, and making statements …
Kofi, a 44-year-old man with no prior psychiatric history, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED requiring four-point physical restraint applied by security staff en route. He had been found running naked…
A 17-year-old girl, Yaa, is brought to a district hospital in the Volta Region by her school teacher after she disclosed she had been cutting her forearms regularly for six months and had thoughts of …
Kofi, a 29-year-old man with a known diagnosis of schizophrenia, is brought to the A&E at Tamale Teaching Hospital by his brother. He is highly agitated, shouting, pacing, and has threatened staff. He…
Kofi, a 67-year-old retired teacher with no known psychiatric history, is brought to the regional hospital A&E in Cape Coast by his son. He has become increasingly confused, agitated, and is shouting …
A 60-year-old woman, Adwoa, is assessed in the Korle Bu emergency centre after a first episode of acute psychosis. Organic causes have been excluded with blood tests, ECG, and CT head. She has been st…
Afia, a 28-year-old female nurse, is brought to the regional hospital ED in the Ashanti Region by a colleague after she was found sitting alone in the sluice room holding a scalpel to her wrist. She h…
A 45-year-old man is brought to a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo by family. He has become increasingly paranoid over three weeks, believes neighbours are poisoning his food, and has not eaten for fi…
A 52-year-old man, Mohammed, is brought to a district hospital in Northern Ghana by police after causing a disturbance at a market. He is acutely agitated, shouting, and throwing objects. He weighs ap…
Afia, a 22-year-old university student, presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre with 1-day pleuritic chest pain. She had a long-haul flight from the UK 4 days ago. She is on no medications and has n…
Yaw, a 58-year-old civil servant with known metastatic colorectal cancer under oncology follow-up, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre by his family with worsening dyspnoea over 5 days. He has…
Fatima, a 38-year-old woman, is referred from a district hospital in Northern Ghana to the Tamale Teaching Hospital ED with confirmed massive PE on clinical grounds. She is haemodynamically unstable (…
Abena, a 34-year-old schoolteacher, presents to the emergency department of a regional hospital in Ashanti Region with two days of right-sided pleuritic chest pain and mild shortness of breath. She re…
Kwesi, a 28-year-old male medical officer, presents to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre with a one-day history of mild exertional dyspnoea. He denies chest pain, haemoptysis, or leg swelling. He has no p…
Fatima, a 44-year-old market trader, is referred from a district hospital in the Northern Region to Tamale Teaching Hospital with a one-week history of worsening dyspnoea and right calf pain and swell…
Ama, a 29-year-old woman at 24 weeks gestation (G2P1), is referred from a district hospital in the Volta Region to the regional hospital A&E with a 2-day history of worsening right leg swelling, dyspn…
Mohammed, a 47-year-old man, presents to the Tamale Teaching Hospital ED with a 9-month history of progressive exertional dyspnoea, fatigue, and two episodes of pre-syncope on exertion. He was hospita…
A 34-year-old woman is brought to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre having collapsed at home. She is 36 weeks pregnant with a twin pregnancy and has been on bed rest for 4 weeks for pre-eclampsia. On arri…
Kofi, a 62-year-old man with hypertension and type 2 diabetes, is brought to a regional hospital emergency department in Northern Ghana by his family with 3 days of progressive exertional dyspnoea and…
Kwame, a 58-year-old farmer, is brought by relatives to a district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo after three days of profuse watery diarrhoea and vomiting. He has no significant past medical history and…
Yaa, a 72-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and known stage 3 chronic kidney disease (baseline creatinine 180 micromol/L), is referred to Korle Bu emergency centre from a regional hos…
A 67-year-old man with known benign prostatic hyperplasia presents to the regional hospital A&E with a two-week history of worsening lower urinary tract symptoms and now complete urinary retention for…
A 44-year-old woman with no prior renal history is admitted to Korle Bu emergency centre with anuric AKI following septic shock. After 48 hours of treatment, her creatinine is 780 micromol/L, potassiu…
A 67-year-old woman, Adwoa, with known type 2 diabetes mellitus and stage 3 chronic kidney disease (baseline creatinine 160 micromol/L) presents to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre with acute-onset chest…
Yaw, a 45-year-old accountant, presents to the Komfo Anokye ED in Kumasi with a 2-day history of mild dyspnoea and left-sided pleuritic chest pain. He denies haemoptysis, leg swelling, or recent surge…
Mohammed, a 35-year-old HIV-positive man (not on antiretroviral therapy, last CD4 count 110 cells/μL three months ago), presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre with a 10-day history of progressive d…