Ama, a 30-year-old staff nurse at a regional hospital A&E in the Northern Region, is splashed with a large volume of blood across her face and into her mouth while assisting with an emergency intubati…
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Akua, a 32-year-old staff nurse at a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo, sustains a superficial needlestick injury from a patient who is known to be hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive. Akua ha…
Adwoa, a 27-year-old intern nurse at Komfo Anokye ED, cared for a patient who has been confirmed to have meningococcal meningitis. She had direct unprotected contact with the patient's respiratory sec…
Nurse Akua, 27 years old, is working in the A&E of a regional hospital in Ashanti Region when she sustains a needlestick injury from a hollow-bore needle used on an HIV-positive patient. The needle pe…
Dr Abena, a 28-year-old resident at a teaching hospital ED in Accra, performs a lumbar puncture on a patient with bacterial meningitis confirmed on CSF analysis. During the procedure she was not weari…
A 35-year-old male nurse at a regional hospital A&E in Ashanti Region sustains a needlestick injury from a patient whose HIV status is unknown. The injury is a superficial scratch from a solid suture …
Staff nurse Ama, 24 years old, sustains a needlestick injury at a district hospital in Brong-Ahafo while drawing blood from a patient with known hepatitis B surface antigen positivity (HBsAg+). Ama ha…
A 7-month-old girl is brought to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre with a 12-hour history of intermittent screaming episodes and one episode of passing dark red, jelly-like stool. She is now drowsy. Vital…
A 12-day-old male neonate is brought to a regional hospital A&E in Northern Ghana, referred from a health centre. He has had bilious (green) vomiting since yesterday and has become increasingly lethar…
A 9-month-old boy is brought to a district hospital A&E in the Ashanti Region by his mother. He has had intermittent episodes of drawing up his legs and inconsolable crying for the past 6 hours, with …
A 12-day-old male neonate is brought to a regional hospital A&E in the Northern Region by his parents. He began vomiting bilious green fluid 4 hours ago and is now limp and poorly responsive. He was b…
A 7-month-old girl is brought to a district hospital by her father. She has been crying intermittently for 8 hours and passed one stool that her father describes as 'looking like red jam'. On examinat…
A 2-day-old male neonate at a district hospital in the Volta Region develops bilious vomiting and abdominal distension. He passed meconium at 24 hours of age. On examination he is pale, tachycardic (H…
A 9-month-old boy is brought to a regional hospital A&E by his mother. She reports intermittent episodes of inconsolable crying and drawing up of his legs over the past 6 hours, with two episodes of v…
A 10-day-old neonate is brought to a regional hospital A&E by his parents. He has been vomiting green fluid since this morning and his abdomen is now distended and tender. He was born at term with no …
A 4-week-old male infant is brought to Korle Bu Emergency Centre. His mother reports that for the past week he has been vomiting forcefully immediately after every feed. The vomit is milky and has nev…
A 6-week-old male infant is brought to a district hospital A&E. His mother reports 10 days of vomiting after feeds and increasing fussiness. Today he vomited six times, the vomit is yellow-green, and …
A 9-month-old boy is brought to a district hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo by his mother, who reports sudden-onset colicky crying episodes over the past 6 hours, during which he draws his knees to his che…
A 3-week-old male infant is brought to Komfo Anokye ED by his mother, Akua. She reports that the baby has never passed meconium spontaneously since birth and has had progressive abdominal distension. …
A 7-month-old girl is brought to Komfo Anokye ED by her parents with a 12-hour history of intermittent screaming episodes and two episodes of vomiting. On examination she is afebrile, has a soft abdom…
A 13-year-old boy, Mensah, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre by his father. He complains of sudden onset of severe right scrotal pain that woke him from sleep 2 hours ago. He has vomited onc…
A 3-year-old girl is brought to a district hospital A&E in Ashanti Region by her mother. She is febrile, tachypnoeic, and her mother says she has been 'breathing hard' for two hours. On examination sh…
An 8-week-old girl, Ama, is brought to a regional hospital A&E in Brong-Ahafo by her mother. She has been crying inconsolably for 4 hours. On examination, she is afebrile, well-perfused, and the anter…
A 14-month-old girl, Afia, is brought to a regional hospital A&E by her father. She has had three days of diarrhoea and vomiting. She is drowsy, her eyes are sunken, and her skin turgor is reduced. HR…
A 3-year-old girl is brought to a district hospital A&E in the Volta Region by her mother after two days of fever and vomiting. On assessment she is irritable, has a respiratory rate of 42 breaths/min…
A 9-year-old boy, Yaw, is brought to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre with a known congenital heart defect (unrepaired VSD). He develops septic shock following a chest infection. His weight is 28 kg. The…
A 2-year-old girl is brought to a regional hospital A&E in the Northern Region with a generalised tonic-clonic seizure that has been ongoing for 8 minutes. Two nurses have been unable to establish per…
A 10-year-old girl called Afia is brought to Korle Bu emergency centre with severe difficulty breathing and generalised urticaria after eating groundnuts at school. Her blood pressure is 72/40 mmHg, h…
A 9-month-old girl, Akua, is brought to the Komfo Anokye ED by her father. She has had episodes of sudden, severe crying lasting 2–3 minutes, followed by periods of calm, for the past 5 hours. She has…
A 4-year-old boy, Kwame, weighing 16 kg, is brought to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre with severe sepsis following a presumed urinary tract infection. He has a patent IV line in situ. His BP is 72/40 m…