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Fever in adults · Pneumonia as fever source - classical presentation difficulty 1/5

Kofi, a 58-year-old man with diabetes, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre with a 2-day history of fever, productive cough, and right-sided pleuritic chest pain. On examination, temperature is…

Fever in adults · Typhoid fever classical presentation difficulty 2/5

Yaw, a 45-year-old civil servant, presents to a regional hospital A&E with a 7-day history of gradually worsening fever, frontal headache, and abdominal discomfort. He has not travelled outside Accra …

Fever in adults · Uncomplicated malaria — oral ACT first-line difficulty 2/5

Kwame, a 34-year-old farmer, presents to a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo with a 3-day history of high fever, rigors, and headache. He has been working in a rice field. On examination, temperature i…

Fever in children · Febrile convulsion versus cerebral malaria difficulty 2/5

A 2-year-old girl, Abena, is brought to a district hospital A&E in the Volta Region with fever and a generalised convulsion that lasted 3 minutes and stopped spontaneously before arrival. She is now p…

Gastrointestinal bleeding · Upper vs lower GIB distinction - haematochezia difficulty 1/5

Mensah, a 50-year-old man, presents to a regional hospital A&E with fresh bright red blood per rectum for the past two hours. He denies any vomiting or epigastric pain. He has a history of constipatio…

Gastrointestinal bleeding · Glasgow-Blatchford score for risk stratification difficulty 2/5

Fatima, a 48-year-old woman with a known history of peptic ulcer disease, presents to a regional hospital A&E with a single episode of haematemesis. She is haemodynamically stable with a blood pressur…

Gastrointestinal bleeding · Mallory-Weiss tear - classical recognition difficulty 2/5

Kofi, a 32-year-old man, presents to a district hospital in Ashanti Region after an episode of vomiting bright red blood following a night of heavy alcohol consumption and repeated forceful vomiting. …

Head injury · Mild TBI disposition difficulty 2/5

A 19-year-old student, Yaw, is brought to the district hospital A&E after being struck on the head by a football. He had a brief loss of consciousness of under one minute. He is now alert, GCS 15, wit…

Headache · Cluster headache — recognition and differentiation difficulty 2/5

A 38-year-old man, Kofi, presents to a district hospital A&E in the Volta Region with recurrent episodes of severe right-sided periorbital pain lasting about 45 minutes each, occurring once or twice d…

Headache · Post-traumatic headache — red flag recognition and imaging difficulty 2/5

A 25-year-old woman, Ama, is brought to a district hospital A&E in the Volta Region following a road traffic accident. She was a front-seat passenger and struck her head on the dashboard. She was brie…

Hypertensive urgencies and emergencies · Eclampsia — mechanism of magnesium sulphate difficulty 3/5

Fatima, a 30-year-old woman at 38 weeks gestation, is brought to a district hospital in the Northern Region by her mother following a generalised seizure. Her blood pressure is 172/116 mmHg and urine …

Hypertensive urgencies and emergencies · Labetalol vs hydralazine in pregnancy difficulty 3/5

A 48-year-old woman, Adwoa, presents to the district hospital A&E with a BP of 200/120 mmHg and acute severe headache. She is 28 weeks pregnant. IV labetalol is unavailable at this facility.

Hypertensive urgencies and emergencies · Asymptomatic severe hypertension — oral therapy and outpatient follow-up difficulty 2/5

Abena, a 45-year-old woman, is seen in the A&E of a district hospital in the Northern Region. She has a blood pressure of 195/118 mmHg on two readings taken 30 minutes apart. She feels well, has no he…

Hypertensive urgencies and emergencies · Asymptomatic severe hypertension — oral therapy and follow-up difficulty 1/5

Abena, a 48-year-old teacher, presents to a district hospital in the Eastern Region with a blood pressure of 176/108 mmHg found incidentally during a school health screening. She has no headache, ches…

Joint pain — acute monoarthritis · Haemarthrosis in haemophilia difficulty 2/5

Akua, a 10-year-old girl with known haemophilia A, is brought to a district hospital A&E in the Ashanti region with sudden onset of severe right knee pain and swelling after a minor fall in the playgr…

Joint pain — acute monoarthritis · Reactive arthritis classical triad difficulty 2/5

Yaw, a 28-year-old man, presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre with a 3-week history of right knee pain and swelling that developed 2 weeks after an episode of urethral discharge and dysuria. He al…

Joint pain — acute monoarthritis · Gout vs septic arthritis — when aspiration is mandatory difficulty 2/5

A 62-year-old man, Yaw, with known hypertension on thiazide diuretics presents to a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo with sudden-onset severe pain and swelling of his right first metatarsophalangeal j…

Legal issues in emergency medicine · Informed refusal and patient autonomy difficulty 2/5

A 19-year-old woman, Esi, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre after a road traffic accident. She is conscious and orientated. She refuses blood transfusion on religious grounds, despite haemog…

Legal issues in emergency medicine · Communication errors at handover difficulty 2/5

A 45-year-old man, Kofi, is seen at Komfo Anokye ED with chest pain. The night team assesses him, starts treatment, and hands over verbally to the morning team without written documentation of the pla…

Legal issues in emergency medicine · Consent and confidentiality — competent minor difficulty 3/5

A 16-year-old girl, Fatima, presents alone to the regional hospital A&E requesting treatment for a sexually transmitted infection. She is alert, articulate, and demonstrates clear understanding of her…

Legal issues in emergency medicine · Mandatory reporting — notifiable infectious diseases difficulty 1/5

A 38-year-old man, Yaw, presents to a district hospital A&E in the Northern Region with a 3-day history of productive cough, fever, and haemoptysis. Sputum microscopy confirms acid-fast bacilli. The c…

Legal issues in emergency medicine · Mental Health Act — emergency detention for psychiatric assessment difficulty 2/5

A 40-year-old woman, Akosua, is brought to the regional hospital A&E by police after being found wandering on a highway, confused and agitated. She has no identification. She is threatening to harm he…

Low back pain · Traumatic vertebral fracture - spinal immobilisation difficulty 2/5

Joseph, a 58-year-old man, presents to Korle Bu emergency centre with acute low back pain after a road traffic accident in which his vehicle was struck from behind. He was ambulant at the scene but no…

Low back pain · Vertebral fracture red flag - trauma mechanism with midline tenderness difficulty 2/5

Mensah, a 55-year-old man, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED after a road traffic collision in which he was a restrained front-seat passenger. He complains of severe lumbar back pain. He is haemodynam…

Low back pain · Spinal infection - TB in immunocompromised host difficulty 2/5

Ama, a 29-year-old woman with HIV on antiretroviral therapy, presents to a regional hospital A&E with a three-week history of back pain associated with fever and night sweats. She has lost 5 kg over o…

Microbiology · Mechanisms of disease difficulty 3/5

Yaw, a 28-year-old farmer from the Northern Region, presents to the regional hospital A&E with a five-day history of progressive dysuria, haematuria, and suprapubic discomfort. He reports swimming dai…

Microbiology · Principles of immunization difficulty 2/5

During a mass vaccination campaign at a district hospital in the Upper East Region of Ghana, a health worker notes that several vials of oral polio vaccine (OPV) stored in the peripheral cold box have…

Microbiology · Worms difficulty 2/5

Kofi, a 28-year-old subsistence farmer from Northern Ghana, presents to the regional hospital A&E with progressive fatigue, exertional dyspnoea, and pica (craving for soil). He reports intermittent ep…

Microbiology · Controlling infection difficulty 2/5

Kofi, a 45-year-old farmer, presents to the district hospital A&E with a 2-day history of a wound on his right foot sustained while working barefoot in a rice paddy. The wound appears dirty with soil …

Microbiology · Principles of investigation difficulty 3/5

Yaw, a 19-year-old student, presents to the UGMC emergency centre with a 10-day history of fever, malaise, and a dry cough. He is not toxic-looking and his chest radiograph shows bilateral perihilar i…