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Critical Care Infectious Diseases Textbook

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Jordi Rello

    1. Hospital Universitari Joan XXIII, Tarragona, Spain
      University Rovira & Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

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  2. Jordi Valles

    1. Corporacio Sanitaria Parc Tauli, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain

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  3. Marin H. Kollef

    1. Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA
      Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, USA

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Table of contents (55 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. General Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Opportunistic Infections: An Overview

      • Guillem Prats, Ferran Sánchez
      Pages 3-17

    3. Pathogenesis and Differential Diagnosis of Fever and Approach to the Febrile Patient in the Intensive Care Unit

      • Bekele Afessa, G. Umberto Meduri
      Pages 19-46

    4. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Infection

      • Jean-François Timsit
      Pages 47-55

    5. Fungal Infections

      • Rosemary A. Barnes
      Pages 57-75

    6. Infections in Critically III Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

      • Nina Singh
      Pages 77-107

    7. Infections in the Neurosurgical Patient

      • Anne-Marie Korinek, Claude Martin
      Pages 109-112

    8. Cardiovascular Monitoring of the Septic Patient

      • J. Andrew Apostle, Juan J. Guardiola
      Pages 113-125

    9. Role of Invasive Devices in the Pathogenesis of Nosocomial Pneumonia

      • Torsten T. Bauer, Ricard Ferrer, Antonio Torres
      Pages 127-136

    10. AIDS in the Intensive Care Unit

      • David M. Forrest, Carlos Zala, Marianne Harris, Peter Phillips, James A. Russell, Julio S. G. Montaner
      Pages 137-191

  3. Use of Anti-Infective Therapy in Critically Ill Patients

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. Anti-Fungal Therapy in the ICU

      • José-Artur Paiva
      Pages 195-223

    3. Immunomodulation in Sepsis

      • Steve Nelson, Carol M. Mason, Ping Zhang, Warren R. Summer, Gregory J. Bagby
      Pages 225-243

    4. Using Information Systems Technology to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing

      • Thomas C. Bailey, S. Troy McMullin, Janette Coble
      Pages 245-252

    5. Use of Antibiotics in Pregnant Patients in the ICU

      • Josep-E. Baños, Magí Farré
      Pages 253-265

    6. Pharmacokinetics of Antibiotics in Seriously Infectious Patients

      • Miguel Angel Campanero Martínez, José Ramón Azanza Perea, Emilio García Quetglas, Belén Sádaba Díaz de Rada
      Pages 267-280

    7. Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in the Intensive Care Unit

      • Ina S. Petersen, Dominique L. Monnet, Ole B. Jepsen
      Pages 281-295

    8. Prescription of Antimicrobial Agents in Patients Undergoing Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

      • M. Schetz, C. Verwaest
      Pages 297-312

  4. Infection Control/Epidemiology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 313-313
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Infections and their complications are a very Additionally, they have a responsibility to ensure important clinical area in the intensive care that nosocomial infections are prevented and unit setting. Community-acquired infections that antimicrobial resistance is minimized by and nosocomial infections both contribute to prudently employing antibiotic agents. It is our the high level of disease acquity common hope that this textbook will provide clinicians among critically ill patients. The importance practicing in the intensive care unit a reference of accurately diagnosing nosocomial infections to help guide their care of infected patients. To and providing appropriate therapies, to include that end we have brought together a group of antimicrobial therapy effective against the international authors to address important topics identified agents of infection, have been shown related to infectious diseases for the critical care to be important determinants of patient practitioner. outcome. Critical care practitioners are in a Jordi Rello, M. D. , Ph. D. unique position in dealing with infectious Jordi Valles, M. D. , Ph. D. diseases. They are often the initial providers of Marin H. Kolle!, M. D. care to seriously ill patients with infections. SECTION 1: GENERAL ASPECTS ]. Rello 1.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hospital Universitari Joan XXIII, Tarragona, Spain

    Jordi Rello

  • University Rovira & Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

    Jordi Rello

  • Corporacio Sanitaria Parc Tauli, Sabadell, Barcelona, Spain

    Jordi Valles

  • Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA

    Marin H. Kollef

  • Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, USA

    Marin H. Kollef

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