Ama, a 9-year-old girl, is brought to the A&E of a regional hospital by her mother after falling from a mango tree and knocking out an upper front tooth. The avulsed tooth is a permanent upper central…
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A 52-year-old man, Kofi, presents to Korle Bu A&E with persistent bleeding from the left lower molar socket following a tooth extraction performed 6 hours ago. He is on warfarin for atrial fibrillatio…
A 19-year-old student, Esi, presents to the A&E at a regional hospital in Tamale after being struck in the face during a football match 25 minutes ago. Her upper left central incisor was completely av…
A 78-year-old man, Joseph, is referred from a peripheral clinic to the regional hospital ED in the Northern Region with a two-day history of worsening confusion. He lives alone; no family is contactab…
A 68-year-old woman, Afia, is brought to the emergency centre at Korle Bu by her son after she refused to go to the theatre for an elective hernia repair scheduled that morning. She has no prior psych…
A 38-year-old man with known sickle cell disease (HbSS) is referred from a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo to the regional hospital with a 4-day history of left thigh pain, fever, and inability to be…
Afia, a 32-year-old woman, presents to a regional hospital ED with a 4-day history of a painful, swollen right knee. She has no history of trauma. She is afebrile (temperature 37.1°C), heart rate 88 b…
Kofi, a 28-year-old construction worker, was pinned under a collapsed scaffolding for roughly 3 hours before rescue. He is brought to the regional hospital ED with severe swelling of the right thigh a…
A 24-year-old woman named Afia presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre with a 5-day history of migratory polyarthralgia, fever, and a painful swollen left knee. She is sexually active and has not us…
A 7-year-old boy named Emmanuel is brought to Korle Bu Emergency Centre by his father, 5 days after sustaining a supracondylar fracture of the right humerus during a fall at school. The fracture was m…
A 5-day-old female neonate is referred from a district hospital in the Northern Region to the Tamale Teaching Hospital. She is deeply jaundiced and was noted to be 'not moving her arms and legs normal…
A 2-day-old male neonate born at term by spontaneous vaginal delivery at a district hospital in the Volta Region is brought to the emergency unit by his mother. She reports he has been feeding poorly …
Mohammed, a 68-year-old man with known ischaemic heart disease, hypertension, and stage 3 CKD (baseline creatinine 168 μmol/L), presents to the Korle Bu emergency centre with an acute coronary syndrom…
Abena, a 66-year-old woman with known hypertension and type 2 diabetes, is referred from a district hospital to Korle Bu emergency centre with three days of worsening confusion and reduced urine outpu…
Kwame, a 34-year-old man, is brought to Korle Bu emergency centre after being trapped under a collapsed building for six hours following a gas explosion. On extrication he is alert but in severe pain …
A 29-year-old man is brought to a regional hospital A&E after a road traffic accident in which he sustained bilateral femur fractures. He was trapped for two hours. His urine is tea-coloured. Vitals: …
Kwame, a 68-year-old hypertensive man, is brought by relatives to the Korle Bu emergency centre after sudden onset of right-sided weakness and inability to speak, witnessed at 09:00. He arrives at 10:…
A 45-year-old man, Kofi, presents to a district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo with a 3-day history of worsening occipital headache, fever of 38.9°C, and neck stiffness. GCS is 15. CT head is not availab…
A 58-year-old woman, Adwoa, is brought to the emergency centre at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital by her husband after he noticed her face drooping and her right arm becoming weak while eating breakfas…
A 58-year-old woman named Abena is brought to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre after generalised tonic-clonic seizures that began 18 minutes ago. She received lorazepam 4 mg IV en route, and a second dos…
A 28-year-old woman, Akosua, is brought to the regional hospital A&E by relatives after a witnessed generalised tonic-clonic seizure lasting 8 minutes. She is still seizing on arrival. Vitals: HR 118 …
A 48-year-old man, Yaw, is brought to the Tamale Teaching Hospital ED after collapsing at work. He is on warfarin for a mechanical heart valve. CT head confirms a large left frontal intracerebral haem…
Kofi, a 58-year-old hypertensive man, is brought by relatives to the Korle Bu emergency centre after sudden onset of right-sided weakness and expressive dysphasia that began 90 minutes ago. He has no …
Yaw, a 48-year-old man with no known medical history, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre 2 hours after sudden onset of severe headache, vomiting, and right arm weakness. On examination, BP is…
A 28-year-old woman named Akosua is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED by relatives after a witnessed generalised tonic-clonic seizure lasting 8 minutes. She has no prior seizure history. On arrival she i…
A 72-year-old man is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre with sudden onset right hemiplegia, global aphasia, and a head and eye deviation to the left. Onset was 90 minutes ago. GCS is 9. Non-cont…
Akua, a 55-year-old woman with atrial fibrillation on no anticoagulation, presents to a regional hospital A&E in the Ashanti region with acute left-sided weakness and slurred speech. Her relatives con…
A 62-year-old woman, Akosua, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre by her husband at 09:15. She developed sudden right-sided weakness and expressive dysphasia at 07:45 while preparing breakfast.…
A 42-year-old woman, Akua, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre by her husband after experiencing a sudden, severe headache while lifting a heavy bag at the market. She describes it as 'the wor…
Ama, a 61-year-old woman, arrives at a district hospital in the Brong-Ahafo region with sudden onset left facial droop, left arm weakness, and dysarthria beginning 90 minutes ago. Her BP is 210/118 mm…