Challenging and Emerging Conditions in Emergency Medicine

Arvind Venkat , MD, FACEP, is Director of Research, Department of Emergency Medicine and Ethics Consultant, Allegheny General Hospital and Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Drexel University College of 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.

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 on dialysis, 74K. K. Venkat and Arvind VenkatChapter 6 Adults with cystic fibrosis, 96Arvind Venkat and Joseph M. PilewskiChapter 7 Adults with sickle-cell disease: implications of increasing longevity, 115Ward Hagar and Claudia R. MorrisChapter 8 HIV-positive adults on HAART, 141Arvind Venkat and Sukhjit S. TakharChapter 9 Adults receiving chemotherapeutic regimens, 158Moira 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 and complications 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 pain, 319Victoria L. Thornton and Lauren T. SoutherlandIndex, 342