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.