Challenging and Emerging Conditions in Emergency Medicine

With growing numbers of chronically ill patients surviving longer and receiving novel medical and surgical treatments, emergency departments are increasingly the venue for associated acute presentations. How can emergency physicians respond to these challenging and emerging conditions? This book focuses on the unusual and complex disease presentations not covered in detail in the standard textbooks, helping you manage patients with conditions such as congenital heart disease, cystic fibrosis, morbid obesity, intellectual disability and intestinal failure. Not only does this book provide guidance on evaluation and diagnosis, but it also addresses the practical issues of acute management and continuing referral. The individual chapters are written by high profile emergency physicians, in conjunction with appropriate specialists, and include authoritative evidence to back up the clinical information.

With growing numbers of chronically ill patients surviving longerand receiving novel medical and surgical treatments, emergencydepartments are increasingly the venue for associated acutepresentations. How can emergency physicians respond to thesechallenging and emerging conditions?This book focuses on the unusual and complex diseasepresentations not covered in detail in the standard textbookshelping you manage patients with conditions such as congenitalheart disease, cystic fibrosis, morbid obesity, intellectualdisability and intestinal failure.Not only does this book provide guidance on evaluation anddiagnosis, but it also addresses the practical issues of acutemanagement and continuing referral. The individual chapters arewritten by high profile emergency physicians, in conjunction withappropriate specialists, and include authoritative evidence to backup the clinical information.

List of contributors, viiAcknowledgments, xivChapter 1 Introduction, 1Arvind VenkatChapter 2 The post-cardiac arrest patient, 5Ankur A. Doshi and Clifton W. CallawayChapter 3 Adults with congenital heart disease, 26Kara M. Iskyan and Craig R. CohenChapter 4 The renal transplant patient, 51Joseph B. Miller and K. K. VenkatChapter 5 The end-stage renal disease patient ondialysis, 74K. K. Venkat and Arvind VenkatChapter 6 Adults with cystic fibrosis, 96Arvind Venkat and Joseph M. PilewskiChapter 7 Adults with sickle-cell disease: implicationsof increasing longevity, 115Ward Hagar and Claudia R. MorrisChapter 8 HIV-positive adults on HAART, 141Arvind Venkat and Sukhjit S. TakharChapter 9 Adults receiving chemotherapeutic regimens158Moira Davenport and Mary Ann HowlandChapter 10 The bariatric surgery patient, 184Melissa B. Bagloo and Alfons PompChapter 11 The obese patient, 204Andra L. Blomkalns and David W. SilverChapter 12 The geriatric trauma patient, 228John M. O'Neill and Elan JeremitskyChapter 13 Children with intestinal failure andcomplications from visceral transplant, 251Melissa A. Vitale, Jeffrey A. Rudolph and Richard A.SaladinoChapter 14 Family violence, 271Daniel M. Lindberg and Esther K. ChooChapter 15 The intellectually disabled patient, 299Jonathan S. Anderson and Shamai A. GrossmanChapter 16 Adults with conditions causing chronic pain319Victoria L. Thornton and Lauren T. SoutherlandIndex, 342