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Summary
Summary
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.
Author Notes
Edited by Arvind Venkat, MD, FACEP, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, and Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Table of Contents
list of Contributors | p. i |
Acknowledgements | p. xiv |
Chapter 1 Introduction | p. 1 |
Chapter 2 The post-cardiac arrest patient | p. 5 |
Chapter 3 Adults with congenital heart disease | p. 26 |
Chapter 4 The renal transplant patient | p. 51 |
Chapter 5 The end-stage renal disease patient on dialysis | p. 74 |
Chapter 6 Adults with cystic fibrosis | p. 96 |
Chapter 7 Adults with sickle-cell disease: implications of increasing longevity | p. 115 |
Chapter 8 HIV-positive adults on HAART | p. 141 |
Chapter 9 Adults receiving chemotherapeutic regimes | p. 158 |
Chapter 10 The bariatric surgery patient | p. 184 |
Chapter 11 The obese patient | p. 204 |
Chapter 12 The geriatric trauma patient | p. 228 |
Chapter 13 Children with intestinal failure and complications from visceral transplant | p. 251 |
Chapter 14 Family violence | p. 271 |
Chapter 15 The intellectually disabled patient | p. 299 |
Chapter 16 Adults with conditions causing chronic pain | p. 319 |
Index | p. 342 |