A 76-year-old woman, Akua, is brought to a regional hospital A&E in the Ashanti Region by her family after three days of increasing confusion, reduced oral intake, and urinary incontinence — symptoms …
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Kofi Acheampong, a 76-year-old man, is seen in the Korle Bu emergency centre after his third fall in six months. He has no acute fractures on plain X-ray. He has well-controlled hypertension and mild …
Kofi, an 82-year-old retired teacher, is admitted to the emergency centre at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital after being brought by his family for three days of confusion and agitation. He lives alone; his…
A 65-year-old market trader, Yaa, is seen at a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo for breathlessness. Her daughter reports that over the past year Yaa has become slower on her feet. To screen for frailt…
A 68-year-old retired teacher, Yaw, is assessed in the emergency centre at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. His wife says he has been confused and agitated for three days. She confirms he had no cognit…
A 78-year-old woman, Maame Adwoa, is brought to the emergency department of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital after her daughter found her on the floor at home. She cannot recall how she fell. Her past m…
Ama, a 74-year-old woman, is brought to the emergency centre of Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital by her daughter-in-law. She has been an inpatient at a private nursing home for 6 months following a stro…
A 78-year-old woman, Adwoa, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED by her daughter following a fall at home. Her past medical history includes heart failure, type 2 diabetes, and mild cognitive impairment.…
A 76-year-old woman, Aisha, is brought to a regional hospital emergency department in Northern Ghana after a witnessed fall at home. She was walking to the toilet at night when she fell; there was no …
Abena, an 80-year-old woman with chronic atrial fibrillation and a previous ischaemic stroke, is brought to the emergency department of a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region after falling down thr…
Yaw, a 71-year-old hypertensive man, presents to the emergency centre at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital after an unwitnessed fall at home. His wife found him on the bathroom floor approximately one hour a…
Abena, a 31-year-old HIV-positive woman, was started on a first-line ART regimen (tenofovir/lamivudine/dolutegravir) 5 weeks ago with a pre-treatment CD4 count of 38 cells/μL. She now presents to a re…
Akosua, a 34-year-old woman, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED by her husband with a 3-week history of progressive dyspnoea on exertion, dry cough, and low-grade fever. She was diagnosed with HIV 6 mo…
Dr. Afia Mensah, a 26-year-old intern doctor at a district hospital in the Volta Region, presents to the emergency room at 22:00 after sustaining a needlestick injury 45 minutes ago. She was performin…
Abena, a 27-year-old female nurse, presents to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre 4 hours after a splash of blood from an HIV-positive patient's arterial line landed in her left eye during a procedure. She…
Kofi, a 28-year-old man with HbSS disease, presents to the regional hospital ED in Kumasi. He has had generalised fatigue and progressive pallor for one week, preceded by mild upper respiratory sympto…
Esi, a 34-year-old primigravida at 36 weeks gestation, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre by ambulance after a placental abruption resulting in massive postpartum haemorrhage. She has receive…
Akosua, a 28-year-old woman with sickle cell disease, is receiving her third unit of packed red blood cells at the Komfo Anokye ED for a painful vaso-occlusive crisis complicated by haemoglobin of 4.8…
Yaa, a 17-year-old girl with HbSS disease, is brought to a regional hospital ED in the Volta Region with bilateral leg pain that she rates 8/10. She has been admitted four times in the past year for s…
Akosua, a 14-year-old girl with known sickle cell disease (HbSS), is brought to the paediatric emergency bay at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital by her mother. She has had diffuse bone pain for two days…
A 19-year-old male student, Yaw, is brought to a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo Region after being assaulted with a machete during a community dispute. He has a 6 cm laceration over the left parieta…
A 45-year-old woman, Akua, is admitted to the Korle Bu neurosurgical unit with a 3-day history of worsening headache and drowsiness following a blunt head injury sustained when she fell from a mango t…
A 55-year-old hypertensive man, Mensah, is brought to the regional hospital in Sunyani by relatives after sudden onset of severe headache, vomiting, and progressive right-sided weakness over two hours…
Mohammed, a 55-year-old businessman from Tamale, is seen in the surgical outpatient clinic with a 5-month history of right-sided nasal obstruction, blood-stained nasal discharge, and facial pain. He r…
Yaw, a 61-year-old retired civil servant at Korle Bu, presents with a 3-month history of progressive dysphagia to solids and a 6 kg weight loss. He has a 40 pack-year smoking history and drinks spirit…
A 55-year-old man presents to the Korle Bu head and neck surgical unit with a 5-month history of a painless right-sided neck mass and no identifiable primary mucosal lesion after clinical examination,…
A 28-year-old woman, Afia, presents to a regional hospital ED in the Volta Region with a 4-day history of sudden-onset fever, severe headache, myalgia, and lower back pain. She is a farmer who has not…
Kofi, a 44-year-old man who received a renal transplant 8 months ago at Korle Bu, presents to the emergency centre with a 3-week history of progressive headache, low-grade fever, and mild confusion. H…
A 38-year-old man, Kofi, is seen at the Komfo Anokye ED after being referred from a peripheral facility. He was diagnosed with pulmonary TB 3 weeks ago and commenced on the Ghana NTP standard first-li…
Abena, a 45-year-old market trader, is brought to a regional hospital ED in the Ashanti Region after being found at home with generalised rigidity and repeated painful whole-body spasms. Her family re…