Dr. Maxwell Osei-Ampofo

Senior Lecturer


Dept: Medicine
SMD building, Room1

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Research Areas/Interests

His research interests are in the areas of prehospital emergency care, injuries and emergency care systems improvement in resource  limiited sett...~more

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Publications

    PUBLICATIONS

    1. Osei-Ampofo M, Cheskes S, Byers A, Drennan IR, Buick JE, Verbeek PR. A Novel Approach to Improve Time to First Shock in Prehospital STEMI Complicated by Ventricular Fibrillation. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2016;20(2):278–282.
    2. Forson PK, Osei-Ampofo M, Ofori-Boadu L, Bonney J, Acheampong EK, Oteng R, Donkor P, Oduro G. African Journal of Emergency Medicine. http://www.academia.edu/download/45696459/Securing_Haemostasis_of_a_finger_lacerat20160517-4457-524f9q.pdf. Accessed July 6, 2017.
    3. Forson PK, Osei-Ampofo M, Ofori-Boadu L, Bonney J, Acheampong EK, Oteng R, Donkor P, Oduro G. African Journal of Emergency Medicine. http://www.academia.edu/download/45696459/Securing_Haemostasis_of_a_finger_lacerat20160517-4457-524f9q.pdf. Accessed July 6, 2017.
    4. Osei-Ampofo M, Osei-Kwame D, Ofori-Boadu L, Oteng R, Oduro G. African Journal of Emergency Medicine. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maxwell_Osei-Ampofo2/publication/295684904_Injury_patterns_and_health_outcomes_among_pregnant_women_seeking_emergency_medical_care_in_Kumasi_Ghana_Challenges_and_opportunities_to_improve_care/links/57476bdd08ae14040e28d27f/Injury-patterns-and-health-outcomes-among-pregnant-women-seeking-emergency-medical-care-in-Kumasi-Ghana-Challenges-and-opportunities-to-improve-care.pdf. Accessed July 6, 2017.
    5. MacDonald RD, Osei-Ampofo M. Articles That May Change Your Practice: Sepsis and Septic Shock. Air Med J. 2015;34(2):71–73.
    6. MacDonald RD, Osei-Ampofo M. Articles That May Change Your Practice: The Benefits of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services in Trauma. Air Med J. 2015;34(3):134–136.
    7. MacDonald RD, Osei-Ampofo M. Articles That May Change Your Practice: Tranexamic Acid. Air Med J. 2015;34(4):173–175.
    8. Mould-Millman NK, Oteng R, Zakariah A, Osei-Ampofo M, Oduro G, Barsan W, Donkor P, Kowalenko T. Assessment of emergency medical services in the Ashanti region of Ghana. Ghana Med J. 2015;49(3):125–135.
    9. Runyon MS, Sawe HR, Levine AC, Pousson A, House DR, Agrawal P, Osei-Ampofo M, Weiner SG, Douglass K. Clinical and translational research in global health and emergency care: a research agenda. Acad Emerg Med. 2013;20(12):1272–1277.
    10. Mould-Millman N-K, Dixon J, Burkholder TW, Sefa N, Patel H, Yaffee AQ, Osisanya A, Oyewumi T, Botchey I, Osei-Ampofo M, Sawe H, Lemery J, Cushing T, Wallis LA. Fifteen years of emergency medicine literature in Africa: A scoping review. Afr J Emerg Med. 2019;9(1):45-52. doi:10.1016/j.afjem.2019.01.006.
    11. Antwi-Kusi A, Osei-Ampofo M, Mohammed DI, Addison W. Fractured tracheostomy tube–A case report of a 3-year old Ghanaian child. Afr J Emerg Med. 2012;2(3):114–116.
    12. Becker TK, Bartels S, Hansoti B, Jacquet GA, Lunney K, Marsh R, Osei-Ampofo M, Lam C, Levine AC. Global emergency medicine: a review of the literature from 2014. Acad Emerg Med. 2015;22(8):976–984.
    13. Becker TK, Hansoti B, Bartels S, Bisanzo M, Jacquet GA, Lunney K, Marsh R, Osei-Ampofo M, Trehan I, Lam C, others. Global emergency medicine: a review of the literature from 2015. Acad Emerg Med. 2016;23(10):1183–1191.
    14. Becker TK, Trehan I, Hayward AS, Hexom BJ, Kivlehan SM, Lunney KM, Modi P, Osei?Ampofo M, Pousson A, Cho DK, Levine AC. Global Emergency Medicine: A Review of the Literature From 2017. Acad Emerg Med. 2018;25(11):1287-1298. doi:10.1111/acem.13456.
    15. Trehan I, Osei?Ampofo M, Balhara KS, Hexom BJ, Kivlehan SM, Modi P, Pousson AY, Selvam A, Quao NSA, Cho DK, Becker TK, Levine AC. Global Emergency Medicine: A Review of the Literature from 2018. Acad Emerg Med. 2019;26(10):1186-1196. doi:10.1111/acem.13832.
    16. Osei-Ampofo M, Flynn-O’Brien KT, Owusu-Dabo E, Otupiri E, Oduro G, Donkor P, Mock C, Ebel BE. Injury patterns and health outcomes among pregnant women seeking emergency medical care in Kumasi, Ghana: Challenges and opportunities to improve care. Afr J Emerg Med. 2016;6(2):87–93.
    17. Osei-Ampofo M, Aidoo A, Antwi-Kusi A, Joan Ofungwu O, Kotey SN-K, Siaw-Frimpong M, Chiedozie O, Tafoya MJ, Becker TK. Respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation in critically ill adults in Ghana: A prospective observational study. Afr J Emerg Med. 2018;8(4):155-157. doi:10.1016/j.afjem.2018.08.001.
    18. Osei-Ampofo M, Tafoya MJ, Tafoya CA, Oteng RA, Ali H, Becker TK. Skill and knowledge retention after training in cardiopulmonary ultrasound in Ghana: an impact assessment of bedside ultrasound training in a resource-limited setting. Emerg Med J. 2018;35(11):704-707. doi:10.1136/emermed-2018-207716.
    19. Tafoya CA, Tafoya MJ, Osei-Ampofo M, Oteng RA, Becker TK. Sustainable Resuscitation Ultrasound Education in a Low-Resource Environment: The Kumasi Experience. J Emerg Med. 2017;52(5):723–730.
    20. Osei-Ampofo M, Oduro G, Oteng R, Zakariah A, Jacquet G, Donkor P. The evolution and current state of emergency care in Ghana. Afr J Emerg Med. 2013;3(2):52–58.
    21. Forson PK, Oduro G, Forson MS, Oteng R, Bonney J, Oppong C, Osei-Ampofo M, Kumi D, Mock CN, Beth BE, others. The use of open source electronic medical records in an urban ED in Kumasi-Ghana. Afr J Emerg Med. 2013;3(4):S14.
    22. Gyedu A, Agbedinu K, Dalwai M, Osei-Ampofo M, Nakua EK, Oteng R, Stewart B. Triage capabilities of medical trainees in Ghana using the South African triage scale: an opportunity to improve emergency care. Pan Afr Med J. 2016;24. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5267868/. Accessed July 6, 2017.
    23. Ekremet K, Osei-Ampofo M, Nkansah RS, Offei KO, Antwi-Donkor K, Ekremet PA. Ujuzi (Practical Pearl/Perle Pratique). Afr J Emerg Med. 2016;6(3):154–155.
    24. Forson PK, Osei-Ampofo M, Acheampong EK, Oteng R, Donkor P, Oduro G. Ujuzi (Practical Pearl/Perle Pratique). Afr J Emerg Med. 2016;6(2):103–104.
    25. Forson PK, Osei-Ampofo M, Ofori-Boadu L, Safo AP, Oteng R, Oduro G, Donkor P. Ujuzi (Practical Pearl/Perle Pratique). Afr J Emerg Med. 2014;4(1):42.
    26. Nkansah SR, Osei-Ampofo M, Ekremet K, Offei OK, Antwi-Donkor K, Oteng R, Oduro G. Ujuzi (Practical Pearl/Perle Pratique). Afr J Emerg Med. 2015;5(4):188–189.
    27. Offei OK, Osei-Ampofo M, Ekremet K, Yakubu AH, Nkansah SR, Oteng R, Oduro G. Ujuzi (Practical Pearl/Perle Pratique). Afr J Emerg Med. 2015;5(2):96.
    28. Osei-Ampofo M, Forson PK, Offei KO, Osei-Kwame D. Ujuzi (Practical Pearl/Perle Pratique). Afr J Emerg Med. 2015;5(1):48.
    29. Osei-Ampofo M, Oppong C, Ntow M, Forson PK. Ujuzi (Practical Pearl/Perle Pratique). Afr J Emerg Med. 2014;4(3):153.
    30. Forson PK, Osei-Ampofo M, Ofori-Boadu L, Bonney J, Acheampong EK, Oteng R, Donkor P, Oduro G. Ujuzi:(Practical Pearl/Perle Pratique). Afr J Emerg Med. 2013;3(3):137–138.
    31. Ofori-Boadu L, Osei-Ampofo M, Forson PK, Osei-Kwame D, Oduro G, Oteng R. Ujuzi:(Practical Pearl/Perle Pratique). Afr J Emerg Med. 2013;3(2):88–89.
    32. Osei-Ampofo M, Osei-Kwame D, Ofori-Boadu L, Oteng R, Oduro G. Ujuzi:(Practical Pearl/Perle Pratique). Afr J Emerg Med. 2013;3(1):33–34.

    Book Chapters

    1.Section editor and chapter author -AFEM handbook of acute and emergency care, 2013

     

    1. Book Chapter Author “Emergency Care in the Streets, Canadian 7th Edition”

     

     

    Social Health Publications

    1.Developing Emergency Health Care in Ghana; Daily Graphic; September 30, 2009; page 29. -Author

     

    1. Preventing needless deaths; Daily Graphic; November 4, 2009; page 29.-Author

     

    1. Anas shouldn’t jeopardise public health, safety [Internet]. www.classfmonline.com. [cited 2018 Aug 4]. Available from: https://classfmonline.com/1.11608727

     

    4.One emergency patient, one emergency bed; Is it really about a bed? [Internet]. [cited 2018 Aug 4]. Available from: https://www.myjoyonline.com/opinion/2018/June-18th/one-emergency-patient-one-emergency-bed-is-it-really-about-a-bed.php

     

    1. Time to Improve Ghana’s Emergency Health Care System is Now-Dr Osei-Ampofo [Internet]. Otec FM Online. 2018 [cited 2018 Aug 4]. Available from: https://otecfmghana.com/2018/07/time-to-improve-ghanas-emergency-health-care-system-is-now-dr-osei-ampofo/

     


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