Complex Infectious Disease Issues in the Intensive Care Unit, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

Complex Infectious Disease Issues in the Intensive Care Unit, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America
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Download or read book Complex Infectious Disease Issues in the Intensive Care Unit, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America written by Naomi P. O. O'Grady and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Guest Editors, coming from the Critical Care Medicine Department in the NIH, are the top thought leaders in the area of infections in critical care. Their topic selections in this issue reflect the most clinically relevant and current information. The issue specifically covers the following topics: Catheter-related bloodstream infections: special considerations in diagnosis in the ICU; Sepsis-How does the new definition help clinicians; Therapeutic drug monitoring of antibiotics; High containment pathogen preparation; Multidrug resistant gram negative infections and enterococcus; Strategies to prevent transmission of resistant organisms; Antibiotic Stewardship: What the intensivist should know; C. Difficile infection in the ICU; Immunocompromised critically ill; Rapid diagnostics: The use of procalcitonin; Respiratory viruses in the ICU: Significance of rhino/rsv updates/adenovirus metapneumovirus; Management of invasive fungal disease in the ICU; Inhaled/Nebulized antibiotics. Infectious disease physicians and intensivists will be armed with the information they need to diagnose and treat patients with infections in the ICU.


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