Preceded by Infectious diseases in critical care medicine / edited by Burke A. Cunha. 3rd ed. c2009. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Antibiotic failure: apparent or actual in the critical care unit. Clinical approach to fever in the critical care unit -- Physical exam clues and their mimics in infectious diseases in the critical care unit -- Ophthalmologic clues to infectious diseases and their mimics in the critical care unit -- Radiology of infectious diseases and their potential mimics in the critical care unit -- Non-specific laboratory tests in the critical care unit -- Infections and their mimics in returning travelers in the critical care unit -- Diagnostic approach to rash and fever in the critical care unit -- Severe tick-borne infections and their mimics in the critical care unit -- The clinical approach to sepsis and its mimics in the critical care unit -- Acute bacterials meningitis and its mimics in the critical care unit -- Encephalitis and its mimics in the critical care unit -- Severe community-acquired pneumonia in the critical care unit Legionnaire's disease and severe pneumonia mimics in the critical care unit -- Severe influenza pneumonia and its mimics in the critical care unit -- Severe non-influenza viral pneumonia in the critical care unit -- Nosocomial pneumonia in the critical care unit -- Central venous catheter infection in the critical care unit -- Acute infective endocarditis and its mimics in the critical care unit -- Diagnostic approach to myocarditis in the critical care unit -- Intra-abdominal surgical infections and their mimics in the critical care unit -- Clostridium difficile and its mimics in the critical care unit -- Diagnostic approach to fulminant hepatitis in the critical care unit -- Diagnostic approach to acute kidney injury in the critical care unit -- Overwhelming post-splenectomy infections in the critical care unit -- Overwhelming post-splenectomy infections in the critical care unit -- Infections in cirrhosis in the critical care unit Febrile neutropenia in the critical care unit -- Infections related to steroids and immunosuppressive agents in the critical care unit -- Infections in solid organ transplant recipients admitted to the critical care unit -- Care of critically ill patients with HIV -- Principles of antibiotic stewardship in the critical care unit -- Colonization, infection, and resistance in the critical care unit -- Rapid infectious disease diagnostics in the critical care unit -- Antibiotic therapy of multidrug resistant organisms in the critical care unit -- Antibiotic therapy in the penicillin-allergic patient in the critical care unit -- Adverse reactions to antibiotics in the critical care unit -- Antibiotic dosage adjustment in renal insufficiency and hemodialysis in the critical care unit -- Antibiotic failure: apparent or actual in the critical care unit.
Summary:
"This new edition features chapters that explain the tenets of differential diagnostic reasoning, differential diagnostic characteristics of fever patterns in the CCU. The proper interpretation of rapid diagnostic tests, in the appropriate clinical context, is included"-- Provided by publisher.
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