Medical Crises in Eating Disorders by James R. Kirkpatrick (University of British Columbia, Canada)
* Provides medical clinicians as well as others with an acute awareness of the critical and potentially lethal medical outcomes they may have to face when managing those with eating disorders
* Over twenty real case presentations each offers an essential piece of the medial puzzle clinicians are faced to manage
* In-depth descriptions of several critical medical risks are given including refeeding syndrome, prolonged QTc interval, several dysrhythmias, cardiac anomalies, cardiac valve disorders including mitral valve prolapse, metabolic abnormalities, insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, and infections