Challenging and Emerging Conditions in the Emergency Department

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

1 Introduction (Arvind Venkat). 2 The Post Cardiac Arrest Patient (Ankur A. Doshi and Clifton W. Callaway). 3 Adults with Congenital Heart Disease (Kara Iskyan and Craig Cohen). 4 The Renal Transplant Patient (Joseph B. Miller and K.K. Venkat). 5 The End-stage Renal Disease Patient on Dialysis (K.K. Venkat and Arvind Venkat). 6 Adults with Cystic Fibrosis (Arvind Venkat and Joseph M. Pilewski). 7 Adults with Sickle Cell Disease: Implications of Increasing Longevity (Ward Hagar and Claudia R. Morris). 8 HIV-positive Adults on HAART (Arvind Venkat and Sukhjit Takhar). 9 Adults Receiving Chemotherapeutic Regimens (Moira Davenport and Mary Ann Howland). 10 The Bariatric Surgery Patient (Melissa Bagloo and Alfons Pomp). 11 The Obese Patient (Andra L. Blomkalns and David W. Silver). 12 The Geriatric Trauma Patient (John M. O'Neill and Elan Jeremitsky). 13 Children with Intestinal Failure and Complications from Visceral Transplant (Melissa A. Vitale, Jeffrey A. Rudolph and Richard A. Saladino). 14 Family Violence (Daniel Lindberg and Esther Choo). 15 The Intellectually Disabled Patient (Jonathan S. Anderson and Shamai A. Grossman). 16 Adults with Conditions Causing Chronic Pain (Victoria L. Thornton and Lauren T. Southerland).