Challenging and emerging conditions in emergency medicine / edited by Arvind Venkat. [electronic resource] Venkat, Arvind. Hospitals Emergency services. Emergency medicine. Emergency Service, Hospital. Emergency Treatment methods. Emergency Treatment trends. RA975.5.E5 C43 2011eb 616.02/5 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. 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. Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 2011. 2011 Text 1 online resource (xiv, 359 pages) : http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781119971603 eng Challenging and emerging conditions in emergency medicine. Challenging and emerging conditions in emergency medicine.