A 58-year-old man is seen at a district hospital emergency unit in the Northern Region. He has a chronic productive cough and uses salbutamol inhalers. He presents with 4 days of increased breathlessn…
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Kofi, a 55-year-old farmer, is brought to a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo Region with a 5-day history of high fever, rigors, productive cough with rusty-coloured sputum, and right-sided pleuritic c…
Akosua, a 68-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes mellitus, is brought to the emergency department of a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region by her son. She has had productive cough with greenish sp…
Yaw, a 45-year-old HIV-positive man on antiretroviral therapy, is admitted to the Tamale Teaching Hospital ED with a 3-week history of low-grade fever, night sweats, progressive dry cough, and a 6 kg …
A 58-year-old woman, Abena, presents to a regional hospital A&E with a COPD exacerbation. She is started on 24% Venturi mask, nebulised salbutamol, ipratropium, oral prednisolone 30 mg, and amoxicilli…
A 19-year-old woman, Afia, is referred to a regional hospital ED from a district hospital in the Northern Region with a diagnosis of right-sided pneumothorax confirmed on CXR. She has no underlying lu…
A 44-year-old man, Yaw, develops refractory cardiac arrest in the Korle Bu cardiac catheterisation laboratory 10 minutes into a primary PCI procedure for an acute anterior STEMI. CPR is commenced imme…
A 68-year-old woman, Adwoa, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre after a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. A bystander performed CPR within 3 minutes, and she arrived 22 minutes later i…
Yaa, a 47-year-old female teacher, is admitted to the Korle Bu ICU following ROSC after 25 minutes of CPR for out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation. She is comatose (GCS 3/15) and intubated. TTM at…
Akosua, a 35-year-old previously well woman, is admitted to the Komfo Anokye ED following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest due to suspected hypokalemia-induced torsades de pointes. ROSC was achieved aft…
Fatima, a 38-year-old woman who is 32 weeks pregnant, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre with a sudden onset of severe dyspnoea and haemodynamic collapse. She arrests in the resuscitation bay…
Afia, a 45-year-old woman, is admitted to the ICU at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital following ROSC after an out-of-hospital VF cardiac arrest. She is intubated and unresponsive to commands. TTM has be…
A 30-year-old man, Mohammed, is in cardiac arrest in the resuscitation bay of a regional hospital in the Northern Region. He was found near a river during the harmattan season and is profoundly hypoth…
A 4-year-old girl, Adwoa, is brought to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre after drowning in a domestic water tank. Her mother reports she was submerged for approximately 8 minutes. On arrival she is in ca…
Mohammed, a 42-year-old man with no known comorbidities, collapses at the Kumasi Central Market and is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED by bystanders. He received no bystander CPR. Resuscitation is init…
A 55-year-old woman, Yaa, suffers an in-hospital cardiac arrest on the general medical ward at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. She was admitted three days earlier for a haemorrhagic stroke confirmed o…
Kwame, a 29-year-old athlete with no prior medical history, collapses during a community football match in Kumasi. Bystanders initiate CPR immediately and an automated external defibrillator delivers …
A 19-year-old male student, Mohammed, is brought to Korle Bu Emergency Centre after being retrieved from a river where he was submerged for an estimated 40 minutes. Witnesses saw him fall in and he di…
A 55-year-old man, Yaw, is seen in the Korle Bu surgical outpatient clinic with bilateral, painless, progressive parotid enlargement over the past 18 months. He has a background of heavy alcohol use (…
A 38-year-old man, Yaw, presents to the surgical outpatient department at the Tamale Teaching Hospital with a 2-year history of a painless swelling in the right cheek, just anterior to the right ear. …
A 38-year-old man, Yaw, presents to the UGMC surgical outpatient clinic with bilateral, painless parotid swellings that have developed gradually over 18 months. He has no history of pain, fever, or tr…
A 60-year-old man, Yaw, is referred from a district hospital in the Northern Region to the Tamale Teaching Hospital surgical unit with a 3-month history of a rapidly growing, painful right parotid mas…
A 38-year-old man, Kofi, presents to the Korle Bu general surgical outpatient clinic with a 4-month history of a painless swelling in the right parotid region. He is otherwise well. On examination, a …
A 55-year-old man, Yaw, presents to the UGMC surgical firm with a 2-year history of bilateral painless parotid swelling. He drinks approximately 80 units of alcohol per week and has a 15-year history …
A 35-year-old woman, Adwoa, presents to the Korle Bu surgical outpatient clinic with bilateral painless parotid enlargement noted over the past 8 months. She has no fever, no pain, and no obstructive …
Adwoa, a 28-year-old woman, presents to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital A&E 18 hours after a sexual assault. She has been examined and forensic swabs have been taken. She has no known drug allergies. H…
Adwoa, a 32-year-old woman, presents to the A&E at a district hospital with a 3-day history of right periorbital bruising and a laceration to her lower lip. She initially attributes her injuries to a …
Kofi, a 22-year-old man with HbSS disease, is scheduled for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy at Korle Bu for symptomatic pigment gallstones. He has no current crisis symptoms. His haematologist h…
Ama, a 32-year-old woman with HbSC disease, is scheduled for elective total abdominal hysterectomy for symptomatic uterine fibroids at the Korle Bu teaching hospital. Her baseline haemoglobin is 10.8 …
Kofi, a 32-year-old man with HbSC disease, is admitted to the Tamale Teaching Hospital surgical ward following a road traffic accident. He sustained blunt abdominal trauma with a confirmed grade III s…