A 52-year-old woman, Akosua, presents to the Komfo Anokye ED with a 3-day history of right calf swelling and pain. She recently returned from a long bus journey from Accra to Kumasi. Her Wells score i…
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A 28-year-old man, Kwame, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED after a road traffic accident. He complains of right-sided chest pain and shortness of breath. Vitals: HR 118 bpm, BP 102/68 mmHg, RR 26/min…
A 50-year-old man, Kwesi, is referred to Komfo Anokye ED from a district hospital with a week-long history of worsening dyspnoea and leg oedema. He looks chronically ill with elevated JVP, pulsus para…
Kofi, a 38-year-old man, is seen at a regional hospital ED in the Ashanti Region. He has a 5-day history of left leg swelling. He is on oral contraceptives for acne (prescribed by a dermatologist). Hi…
A 38-year-old woman, Akosua, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED after three days of profuse watery diarrhoea and vomiting. She appears sunken-eyed and lethargic. Vitals: BP 82/50 mmHg, HR 118 bpm, RR 2…
A 55-year-old man, Yaw, is admitted to the Korle Bu emergency centre with progressive dyspnoea and bilateral leg swelling over two weeks. He has known chronic heart failure but stopped his medications…
Yaa, a 67-year-old woman with a history of hypertension and a right total hip replacement 6 weeks ago, is brought to Korle Bu emergency centre by her family with 4 days of right leg swelling. Her Well…
A 68-year-old woman, Adwoa, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED by her family with a 2-day history of worsening dyspnoea and orthopnoea. She has a background of hypertensive heart disease. On examinatio…
A 35-year-old woman, Aisha, with known asthma is seen in the regional hospital ED in Tamale with acute severe dyspnoea following a chest injury sustained at work. Vitals: HR 124 bpm, BP 96/60 mmHg, RR…
A 28-year-old woman, Abena, with type 1 diabetes is in the resus bay at Korle Bu emergency centre with confirmed DKA. Blood glucose is 22.1 mmol/L, pH 7.18, bicarbonate 9 mmol/L, potassium 4.2 mmol/L.…
A 45-year-old woman, Ama, presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre with a severe, pounding headache, diaphoresis, and a sensation of impending doom that began 20 minutes ago during a routine outpatie…
A 29-year-old woman, Afia, with known Addison's disease presents to a regional hospital A&E with a two-day history of vomiting and diarrhoea. She is unable to keep her oral prednisolone down. Vitals: …
A 72-year-old man, Mohammed, is referred from a district hospital in the Northern Region in a deeply unconscious state (GCS 6). His daughter states he was diagnosed with hypothyroidism three years ago…
A 61-year-old man, Mohammed, is brought to a district hospital in the Northern Region by relatives. He was found confused and minimally responsive at home during the harmattan season. He has a history…
Fatima, a 58-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes, is brought to the district hospital A&E in Ashanti region by her husband after being found unresponsive at home. She takes glibenclamide 5 mg twice da…
A 44-year-old man, Kofi, with known Addison's disease is brought to Korle Bu emergency centre following a day of profuse vomiting and diarrhoea. He ran out of his prednisolone two days ago. Vitals: BP…
A 34-year-old woman, Akosua, is brought to Komfo Anokye ED by relatives with a 2-day history of vomiting, polyuria, and confusion. Vitals: BP 88/54 mmHg, HR 124 bpm, RR 28/min, SpO2 97%, temperature 3…
Yaa, a 29-year-old woman with type 1 diabetes, is brought to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre with a 12-hour history of abdominal pain and vomiting. She ran out of her insulin 4 days ago. Vitals: HR 132 …
Kwame, a 58-year-old man with rheumatoid arthritis, is admitted to the regional hospital ED in Tamale three days after elective knee replacement surgery at a district facility. He has been on predniso…
A 38-year-old woman, Akua, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED by her family with a 3-day history of worsening agitation, profuse sweating, and palpitations. She has known Graves' disease but stopped he…
A 38-year-old woman, Akosua, is brought to Komfo Anokye ED by relatives after three days of fever, agitation, and vomiting. She has a known goitre but takes no medication. On examination: T 39.8°C, HR…
Kofi, a 19-year-old male with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes, is in the resus bay at Korle Bu emergency centre with confirmed DKA. Initial fluids have been running for 1 hour. Vitals are now: BP 102/…
Kofi, a 54-year-old man with type 2 diabetes on insulin glargine 20 units nightly and metformin, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED after collapsing at work. Bystanders witnessed a brief tonic-clonic s…
A 52-year-old man is brought to Korle Bu Emergency Centre after a road traffic collision. During resuscitation he becomes acutely hypertensive with BP 230/140 mmHg and HR 148 bpm. He is diaphoretic an…
Ama, a 52-year-old woman with long-standing hypothyroidism managed with levothyroxine, is brought to a district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo by her husband after he found her increasingly confused and …
Akua, a 38-year-old woman with known Graves' disease, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED by relatives after two days of worsening agitation, profuse sweating, and palpitations. She ran out of carbimazo…
Ama, a 45-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes on metformin and glibenclamide, is admitted to a regional hospital ED in the Volta Region with a 12-hour history of right lower lobe pneumonia-induced DKA…
A 68-year-old woman, Maame Ama, with type 2 diabetes on metformin and glibenclamide is brought to the district hospital A&E after being found unconscious at home. Bedside glucose is 1.8 mmol/L. She is…
A 9-year-old boy named Mohammed is referred from a district hospital in Northern Region to the paediatric emergency unit of Tamale Teaching Hospital. He was admitted with DKA 8 hours ago: initial gluc…
A 72-year-old man, Yaw, is referred from a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo to the regional hospital A&E. He has been confused and drowsy for 3 days. Vitals: BP 96/60 mmHg, HR 118 bpm, RR 18/min, temp…