TY - BOOK AU - Venkat,Arvind TI - Challenging and emerging conditions in emergency medicine SN - 9781119971573 AV - RA975.5.E5 C43 2011eb U1 - 616.02/5 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex, Hoboken, NJ PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - Hospitals KW - Emergency services KW - Emergency medicine KW - MEDICAL KW - Allied Health Services KW - Emergency Medical Services KW - bisacsh KW - Emergency Medicine KW - Nursing KW - Emergency KW - fast KW - Emergency Service, Hospital KW - Emergency Treatment KW - methods KW - trends KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction / Arvind Venkat -- The post cardiac arrest patient / Ankur A. Doshi and Clifton W. Callaway -- Adults with congenital heart disease / Kara Iskyan and Craig Cohen -- The renal transplant patient / Joseph B. Miller and K.K. Venkat -- The end-stage renal disease patient on dialysis / K.K. Venkat and Arvind Venkat -- Adults with cystic fibrosis / Arvind Venkat and Joseph M. Pilewski -- Adults with sickle cell disease : implications of increasing longevity / Ward Hagar and Claudia R. Morris -- HIV-positive adults on HAART / Arvind Venkat and Sukhjit Takhar -- Adults receiving chemotherapeutic regimens / Moira Davenport and Mary Ann Howland -- The bariatric surgery patient / Melissa Bagloo and Alfons Pomp -- The obese patient / Andra L. Blomkalns and David W. Silver -- The geriatric trauma patient / John M. O'Neill and Elan Jeremitsky -- Children with intestinal failure and complications from visceral transplant / Melissa A. Vitale, Jeffrey A. Rudolph, and Richard A. Saladino -- Family violence / Daniel Lindberg and Esther Choo -- The intellectually disabled patient / Jonathan S. Anderson and Shamai A. Grossman -- Adults with conditions causing chronic pain / Victoria L. Thornton and Lauren T. Southerland N2 - 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 guidan UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119971603 ER -