The following list provides some examples of clinical cases from which ESA-type scenarios may be developed.
A patient …
- With acute or chronic recurrent central chest pain
- With heart failure
- With hypertension and its common complications
- With problems from anaemia
- With a swollen painful leg
- With intermittent claudication
- Who needs intravenous fluid therapy
- Who needs cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Who smokes
- Who has wheezy breathlessness
- With either acute or chronic productive cough or with haemoptysis
- With progressive breathlessness
- With respiratory failure from any of its causes
- With a hoarse voice
- With a ligamentous injury or dislocation or bone fracture affecting a limb or a major joint or the spine
- With problems from a bone disorder related to its growth or vascularity or mineralization, or its endocrine or genetic regulation.
- With dysphagia
- Who may be depressed
- Who has been vomiting
- Who has jaundice or ascites or both
- With a pancreatic problem and any of its GI tract or endocrine consequences
- Who has either acute or chronic diarrhoea
- Who has rectal bleeding
- With poor treatment compliance
- Who has either acute or chronic blood loss from the GI tract
- Who has anaemia from any of its causes related to the GI tract
- Who has a problem with impaired voiding or with incontinence
- Who has problems from an upper or a lower urinary tract infection
- A patient with renal failure from any of its causes and to any degree
- With any type of diabetes mellitus
- Who is diabetic and has problems from its common complications
- With a pituitary problem and any of its endocrine or neurological consequences
- With a thyroid problem and any of its endocrine consequences
- With an adrenal problem and any of its endocrine consequences
- Who has a problem with body weight
- Who has abnormal palpable lymph nodes in the neck
- With a lump in the groin or scrotum or testis related to physical activity
- Who has an inherited disorder or a family history with genetic implications
- With contraceptive needs or a normal pregnancy
- With an abnormality of fetal growth and development
- Who has abnormal menstruation
- With an abnormal cervical smear
- With a breast lump or local or disseminated breast malignancy
- With chronic headache or with acute severe headache
- Who has a head Injury with a disturbance of consciousness
- Who suddenly experiences a hemiparesis
- Who developed various neurological problems over some years
- With chronic disability
- With a progressive movement disorder
- Developing loss of vision or other visual disturbance
- Who is elderly, confused or depressed or demented and needs residential care
- Who has psychological problems related to a physical illness