A 72-year-old woman, Adwoa, is brought by her family to the Korle Bu emergency centre with progressive worsening of right leg pain over 8 hours. She has a history of ischaemic heart disease and was re…
Membership bank · search
Find any question
Type a keyword, drug name, syndrome, or chapter reference. Searches across topic, stem, teaching point, and source citation. Showing results only from the Membership bank.
Kofi, a 72-year-old retired farmer with known hypertension and a 40 pack-year smoking history, is seen at a district hospital in the Brong-Ahafo Region after being referred with 'back pain.' He is hae…
A 67-year-old woman, Ama, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre with a 4-hour history of sudden-onset severe chest pain. She is haemodynamically stable. The emergency physician considers CT angi…
Mohammed, a 48-year-old man, presents to the emergency department of a regional hospital in the Northern Region with a 3-day history of left leg swelling. He was immobilised for 5 days following a roa…
A 55-year-old man, Yaw, is referred from a district hospital in the Upper East Region to the Tamale Teaching Hospital ED with a 6-hour history of sudden severe chest pain and progressive dyspnoea. His…
Kofi, a 65-year-old man with known peripheral artery disease and hypertension, is referred from a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo to the Komfo Anokye ED with a 2-hour history of sudden severe pain an…
Afia, a 34-year-old woman, presents to the emergency department of a regional hospital in the Ashanti region with a 4-day history of right calf swelling and pain. She delivered her first child by caes…
Yaw, a 41-year-old driver, is brought to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre following a high-speed road traffic collision. He has suspected blunt chest and abdominal trauma. On arrival he is unresponsive t…
A 34-year-old construction worker, Mohammed, is referred from a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo to the regional hospital ED following a crush injury to the left lower leg by heavy machinery. At the d…
Ama, a 19-year-old market trader, sustains a gunshot wound to the right groin during an armed robbery near Tamale. She is brought to the Tamale Teaching Hospital ED by family approximately 25 minutes …
Akosua, a 26-year-old woman, is brought to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre after sustaining a stab wound to the right side of the neck from a broken bottle during an assault. On arrival: BP 88/56 mmHg, …
A 45-year-old woman, Adwoa, is undergoing elective repair of a right popliteal artery aneurysm at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital vascular theatre. The anaesthetic team has administered general anaesth…
A 42-year-old man, Yaw, is undergoing elective repair of a right femoral hernia at the Korle Bu general surgical unit under spinal anaesthesia. During dissection in the femoral canal, the operating re…
A 55-year-old man, Kofi, is referred from a district hospital in the Brong-Ahafo Region to a regional hospital following a stab wound to the left groin sustained 2 hours ago. He is haemodynamically st…
A 22-year-old woman, Ama, is brought to the emergency bay at a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region following a road traffic collision in which she was a front-seat passenger. She has bruising acro…
A 52-year-old woman, Abena, is referred from a district hospital to the ENT unit at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital with a 6-week history of persistent unsteadiness following an acute episode of vestib…
A 41-year-old man, Kofi, is seen in the outpatient surgical clinic at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital six weeks after an acute episode of vestibular neuritis, which was managed with a five-day course of or…
A 52-year-old man, Mensah, was diagnosed with vestibular neuritis three weeks ago and treated with prochlorperazine and IV fluids at a regional hospital. He is now reviewed in the ENT outpatient clini…
Mohammed, a 52-year-old farmer from Northern Ghana, is referred to a regional hospital ED after an accident with a farming tool resulted in a deep penetrating injury to the right thigh. The wound was …
A 19-year-old woman named Abena presents to a district hospital after a road traffic accident in which she sustained multiple small abrasions and lacerations to both knees and shins from gravel road s…
A 28-year-old man, Kofi, is brought to the emergency department at a regional hospital in the Volta Region following a road traffic collision. He sustained a 12 cm degloving laceration over his right …
A 52-year-old man, Mensah, is reviewed on the general surgical ward at a regional hospital in Brong-Ahafo three weeks after an emergency laparotomy for perforated typhoid ileum. His midline wound was …
A 19-year-old man named Mohammed presents to the emergency department of Tamale Teaching Hospital after a road traffic crash. He has a 4 cm laceration to the right scalp with brisk bleeding, now contr…
A 7-year-old girl named Abena is brought to a regional hospital ED by her mother after falling off a mango tree and sustaining a clean 2 cm laceration on her scalp. The wound has clean edges, no soil …
A 30-year-old physiotherapist is reviewing a risk assessment tool for pressure ulcer prevention in the new surgical ward at a district hospital in the Brong-Ahafo Region. She asks the emergency physic…
Adwoa, a 35-year-old market trader, is brought to the district hospital in Brong-Ahafo Region with a 3 cm laceration on her left palm sustained when her hand was impaled on a rusty metal spike about 2…
Adwoa, a 6-year-old girl, is brought by her parents to a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo after a dog bite to the left cheek sustained approximately 4 hours ago. The wound is a 1.5 cm puncture-type la…
A 28-year-old man named Kwesi presents to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital emergency centre after a fight. He has a 4.5 cm linear laceration over his right shin (anterior tibia), with well-approxima…
Ama, a 45-year-old woman with type 2 diabetes (on metformin and glibenclamide) and no other known medical history, presents to a district hospital in the Central Region. She was bitten on the dorsum o…
Yaa, a 67-year-old woman with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes, presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre with a 5-day-old wound on the plantar aspect of her right foot. She reports she stepped on a …