Challenging and Emerging Conditions in Emergency Medicine (eBook)

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

List of contributors, vii

Acknowledgments, xiv

Chapter 1 Introduction, 1

Arvind Venkat

Chapter 2 The post-cardiac arrest patient, 5

Ankur A. Doshi and Clifton W. Callaway

Chapter 3 Adults with congenital heart disease, 26

Kara M. Iskyan and Craig R. Cohen

Chapter 4 The renal transplant patient, 51

Joseph B. Miller and K. K. Venkat

Chapter 5 The end-stage renal disease patient on
dialysis, 74

K. K. Venkat and Arvind Venkat

Chapter 6 Adults with cystic fibrosis, 96

Arvind Venkat and Joseph M. Pilewski

Chapter 7 Adults with sickle-cell disease: implications
of increasing longevity, 115

Ward Hagar and Claudia R. Morris

Chapter 8 HIV-positive adults on HAART, 141

Arvind Venkat and Sukhjit S. Takhar

Chapter 9 Adults receiving chemotherapeutic regimens,
158

Moira Davenport and Mary Ann Howland

Chapter 10 The bariatric surgery patient, 184

Melissa B. Bagloo and Alfons Pomp

Chapter 11 The obese patient, 204

Andra L. Blomkalns and David W. Silver

Chapter 12 The geriatric trauma patient, 228

John M. O'Neill and Elan Jeremitsky

Chapter 13 Children with intestinal failure and
complications from visceral transplant, 251

Melissa A. Vitale, Jeffrey A. Rudolph and Richard A.
Saladino

Chapter 14 Family violence, 271

Daniel M. Lindberg and Esther K. Choo

Chapter 15 The intellectually disabled patient, 299

Jonathan S. Anderson and Shamai A. Grossman

Chapter 16 Adults with conditions causing chronic pain,
319

Victoria L. Thornton and Lauren T. Southerland

Index, 342

"When every second matters, bureaucracy needs to be shoved aside. Challenging and Emerging Conditions in Emergency Medicine discusses the important issues that emerge in serious issues that have life and death connotations on the line for it all. As the population ages, and new techniques emerge in medical science, and conditions lead to multiple emergency treatments as people live with heart disease, obesity, and other long term conditions. Discussing evaluation and diagnosis with essays from many long term emergency physicians and more, Challenging and Emerging Conditions in Emergency Medicine is a vital discussion of this very important aspect of modern medicine and the high complexity in this incredibly vital situations."
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