Akosua, a 34-year-old woman, is brought to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital emergency department with a 6-hour history of rigors, right-sided flank pain, and dysuria. She is 28 weeks pregnant. Vital…
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Kofi is a 55-year-old man with type 2 diabetes who presents to a regional hospital emergency department in the Ashanti Region with a 2-day history of dysuria, right flank pain, and high-grade fever. H…
Aisha, a 45-year-old woman, presented to Korle Bu emergency centre 90 minutes ago with septic shock secondary to an infected diabetic foot ulcer. She has received 30 mL/kg of intravenous 0.9% normal s…
A 67-year-old man is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre by his family with a 1-day history of fever, rigors, and worsening shortness of breath. He had a laparotomy for perforated sigmoid colon 5…
A 6-year-old boy, Kwesi, is brought to a district hospital in the Northern Region with a 2-day history of fever and refusal to weight-bear on his right leg. T 38.9°C, HR 128 bpm, BP 96/60 mmHg. There …
A 52-year-old man, Kwame, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED by relatives with a 2-day history of severe left leg pain and swelling. He is febrile (39.8°C), HR 118 bpm, BP 94/60 mmHg, RR 22/min, SpO2 9…
A 14-year-old girl, Adwoa, is brought to the district hospital emergency room in the Volta Region. Her parents report three weeks of progressive fever treated with paracetamol at home. Today she devel…
A 19-year-old male student, Kwame, is brought to the emergency centre at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital by his family. He has had two weeks of high-grade fever, headache, and abdominal discomfort trea…
Afia, a 26-year-old woman, is referred from a district hospital in the Northern Region to Tamale Teaching Hospital with a 3-day history of worsening abdominal pain following two weeks of untreated fev…
Abena, a 34-year-old farmer from Kintampo district, presents to the district hospital having been bitten on the right hand by a stray dog 30 minutes ago. The bite is a deep, jagged wound over the dors…
A 9-year-old boy named Kofi is brought to a district hospital in the Bono East Region by his mother after a dog bite that occurred 2 hours ago. The dog, which belongs to a neighbour, is alive and heal…
A 52-year-old woman, Afia, is referred from a peripheral clinic to the Korle Bu emergency centre with a dog bite to the right forearm sustained 72 hours ago. The wound was initially cleaned at the cli…
A 52-year-old farmer, Mohammed, presents to a district hospital in Northern Region with progressive difficulty in urination over 4 months, terminal haematuria for 2 years, and now complete urinary ret…
A nursing aide, Abena, aged 22, cared for a patient at a district hospital in the Savannah Region who is subsequently confirmed to have Lassa fever. She reports that three days ago she helped clean th…
A 35-year-old woman, Afia, is referred to Komfo Anokye ED from a district hospital in Ashanti Region. She has been treated for Katayama fever (confirmed on serology) and is now being started on defini…
A 31-year-old woman, Aisha, presents to a regional hospital ED in the Volta Region with 5 days of fever, myalgia, and pharyngitis. She returned from a humanitarian mission in Sierra Leone 8 days ago. …
A 28-year-old man, Kwesi, is admitted to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital ED from Brong-Ahafo with a 7-day febrile illness. He has severe headache, myalgia, vomiting, and now has bleeding gums and h…
A 34-year-old farmer, Kofi, is brought to a district hospital in the Northern Region with a 4-day history of sudden-onset fever, severe headache, myalgia, and backache. On examination: temperature 39.…
A 32-year-old man, Kofi, presents to Korle Bu Emergency Centre with acute-onset severe low back pain radiating to both legs, lower limb weakness, urinary retention, and faecal incontinence over 36 hou…
Kofi, a 34-year-old man, is brought to the emergency department of a regional hospital in the Volta Region after being struck by a speeding vehicle as a pedestrian. He has a suspected closed fracture …
A 28-year-old man, Kwame, is brought to the emergency centre at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital after a motorcycle collision. He has a 12 cm contaminated wound over the mid-shaft tibia with exposed bon…
Afia, a 19-year-old woman, was involved in a road traffic accident in Kumasi and is now 8 hours post-operative following intramedullary nailing of a closed femur fracture at a regional hospital. She i…
A 55-year-old man, Yaw, is brought to the Komfo Anokye emergency centre after a high-speed vehicle collision. He complains of severe pelvic pain. Primary survey is intact. Vitals: BP 88/60 mmHg, HR 12…
A gas explosion at a chemical processing plant near Tema injures 28 workers, several of whom arrive at the Tema General Hospital A&E with burning eyes, excessive lacrimation, and skin erythema. Three …
A stampede at a football stadium in Kumasi results in 67 casualties being brought to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) A&E. The hospital major incident plan is activated. A 34-year-old man, Kwaben…
A suspected chlorine gas leak at an industrial facility near Tema Port results in 28 workers presenting to the regional hospital A&E with eye irritation, coughing, and skin burning of varying severity…
A fuel tanker overturns on the N1 highway near Accra, triggering a multi-vehicle collision involving a commercial bus. Forty-three casualties are reported at the scene. The A&E registrar at Korle Bu T…
A fuel tanker overturns on the Accra-Kumasi highway, triggering a multi-vehicle collision involving two intercity buses. Forty-three casualties are reported at the scene. The first ambulance crew on s…
A 34-year-old man, Kwabena, is found at the scene of a building collapse at a construction site in Kumasi. The first responder applies START triage. Kwabena is not walking, has a respiratory rate of 2…
A 28-year-old man, Kwame, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED after a high-speed road traffic collision. He is unconscious (GCS 7), with massive midface swelling, blood pooling in the oropharynx, and gu…