A 14-year-old girl, Abena, is brought to a regional hospital A&E in the Brong-Ahafo region after being bitten on the right hand by a stray dog three days ago. The wound was washed briefly at home but …
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A 28-year-old construction worker, Kofi, is brought to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital A&E after touching a live 240 V cable. He was thrown back 2 metres and was briefly unconscious. On arrival he is a…
A 28-year-old male construction worker, Kwame, is brought to the emergency centre at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital after being found unconscious on a harmattan morning in the Ashanti Region. Bystande…
A 68-year-old fisherman, Mensah, is brought to a district hospital A&E after being found collapsed on his boat on the Volta Lake on a cold harmattan night. His core temperature (rectal) is 29°C. He is…
A 35-year-old market trader, Akua, is brought to a regional hospital A&E after being pulled unconscious from a flooded storm drain. Bystanders performed no CPR. On arrival she is apnoeic, pulseless, a…
A 24-year-old soldier, Kwabena, collapses during a physical training exercise at a military camp near Tamale in the dry season. Bystanders report he was confused and combative before losing consciousn…
A 7-year-old boy named Kwame is pulled unresponsive from a backyard well in a village near Techiman. Bystanders carried him to a nearby health post. On arrival, he is apnoeic and pulseless. The nurse …
A 35-year-old female, Ama, is referred from a district hospital in the Northern Region to the Tamale Teaching Hospital ED after sustaining a high-voltage injury (estimated 11,000 V industrial line) at…
A 28-year-old fisherman named Mohammed is brought to the Korle Bu Emergency Centre after being pulled from the Volta Lake following a canoe capsize. He was submerged for approximately 10 minutes. On a…
A 34-year-old man, Kwame, presents to the emergency department of a regional hospital in Ashanti Region with a 45-minute history of spontaneous left-sided nasal bleeding. He has no prior history of ep…
A 62-year-old woman, Adwoa, is referred from a district hospital in the Volta Region to the regional hospital with a 3-hour history of severe right-sided nasal bleeding that has not responded to 20 mi…
A 62-year-old woman, Akua, is referred from a district hospital in the Northern Region to the regional hospital with a 3-hour history of profuse right-sided nasal bleeding. She has a background of hyp…
A 62-year-old woman, Adwoa, with known hypertension managed on amlodipine and warfarin (for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation) presents to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital ENT-surgical unit with profuse bi…
Kofi, a 28-year-old man with known sickle-cell disease (HbSS), is admitted to the Komfo Anokye surgical ward following a painful vaso-occlusive crisis. On day 3 of admission he develops sudden-onset r…
A 34-year-old man, Kwame, presents to the emergency department of a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region with a 45-minute history of spontaneous left-sided nasal bleeding. He has no significant pas…
A 34-year-old man, Kwame, is brought to the emergency department of a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region by his relatives after 40 minutes of continuous bleeding from his right nostril. He has no…
A 34-year-old man, Kwame, presents to the emergency department of a regional hospital in the Ashanti Region with a 45-minute history of spontaneous left-sided nasal bleeding that has not responded to …
A 19-year-old man, Kofi, is admitted to the emergency department of a regional hospital in the Northern Region with a 2-hour history of profuse right-sided nasal haemorrhage following a road traffic a…
Fatima, a 64-year-old woman with squamous cell carcinoma of the lung, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre by her family. She was previously on oral morphine 30 mg every 12 hours for pain. Over…
Adwoa, a 55-year-old woman with metastatic cervical cancer, is seen in the Korle Bu emergency centre for increasing shortness of breath over the past week. She has a pleural effusion confirmed on ches…
A 58-year-old woman, Afia, is admitted to the Komfo Anokye ED with massive haemorrhagic stroke. CT scan shows a right-sided intracerebral haemorrhage of 80 mL with intraventricular extension and midli…
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 19-year-old man, Mohammed, was involved in a road traffic crash on the Accra–Kumasi highway. He was brought by ambulance to the Komfo Anokye ED with a severe traumatic brain injury. CT head shows di…
A 72-year-old man, Kwame, is brought to the Korle Bu emergency centre by his family after a witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. He received 45 minutes of advanced cardiac life support with no re…
Mohammed Alhassan is a 60-year-old man with metastatic lung carcinoma admitted to the Tamale Teaching Hospital ED with acute respiratory failure. After a goals-of-care discussion with the patient and …
Akosua Mensah is a 72-year-old woman with known dilated cardiomyopathy (ejection fraction 15%), NYHA class IV heart failure, and stage 3 chronic kidney disease. She is brought to Korle Bu Emergency Ce…
A 58-year-old woman, Akua, presents to the Korle Bu general surgical unit with a 12-hour history of a painful, irreducible swelling in the right groin. She first noticed the swelling three weeks ago a…
A 52-year-old market woman, Akua, is brought to the surgical outpatient clinic at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital by her daughter. She complains of a painful swelling in her right groin that appeared s…
Yaa, a 62-year-old retired teacher, is brought to the Korle Bu general surgical emergency unit with a 24-hour history of colicky central abdominal pain, absolute constipation, and vomiting. She underw…