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Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care

A Comprehensive Clinical Guide

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Editors:
  1. Jorge Hidalgo

    1. Division of Critical Care, Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, Belize City, Belize

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  2. Laila Woc-Colburn

    1. National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

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  • Provides a framework on how to prepare and plan for potential outbreaks of emerging or resurgent highly infectious diseases

  • Profiles some of the most prevalent highly infectious diseases

  • Written by experts in the field

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. How Infectious Diseases Have Influenced Our Culture

    • Laila Woc-Colburn, Ajay Hotchandani
    Pages 1-13

  3. Evolution and Globalization of Antimicrobial Resistance

    • Laila Woc-Colburn, Daniel Godinez
    Pages 15-22

  4. Emergency Triage of Highly Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism

    • Sarah Bezek, Michael Jaung, Joy Mackey
    Pages 23-36

  5. Diagnostics: The Role of the Laboratory

    • Azka Afzal, Holland Kaplan, Tina Motazedi, Talha Qureshi, Laila Woc-Colburn
    Pages 37-68

  6. Influenza, Measles, SARS, MERS, and Smallpox

    • Daniel S. Chertow, Jason Kindrachuk
    Pages 69-96

  7. Zoonotic Infections and Biowarfare Agents in Critical Care: Anthrax, Plague, and Tularemia

    • Ryan C. Maves, Catherine M. Berjohn
    Pages 97-118

  8. Hemorrhagic Fevers

    • James Sullivan, Stephen Brannan
    Pages 119-138

  9. Multidrug Resistance Bacterial Infection

    • Laila Woc-Colburn, Denise Marie A. Francisco
    Pages 139-146

  10. Central Nervous System Infection

    • Ahmed Reda Taha
    Pages 147-174

  11. Intracranial Pressure Monitoring and Management in Bacterial Meningitis

    • Ignacio J. Previgliano
    Pages 175-194

  12. Rabies

    • Gerald Marín-García, Javier Pérez-Fernández, Gloria Rodríguez-Vega
    Pages 195-201

  13. Tetanus

    • Javier Pérez-Fernández, Gerald Marín-García, Gloria Rodríguez-Vega
    Pages 203-212

  14. Malaria

    • Jorge Hidalgo, Pedro Arriaga, Bruno Alvarez Concejo
    Pages 213-234

  15. Tuberculosis Multidrug Resistance (MDR-TB)

    • Juan Ignacio Silesky-Jiménez
    Pages 235-252

  16. Preparing the ICU for a Highly Infectious Disease

    • Alex Loarca Chávez, Jorge Hidalgo, Adel Mohamed Yasin Alsisi
    Pages 253-259

  17. Pandemic Declaration and Preparation

    • Michael J. Plotkowski
    Pages 261-266

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 267-276
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About this book

This book provides a comprehensive overview of highly infectious diseases (HIDs) in the ICU. The text is designed to help critical care specialists and other healthcare practitioners prepare and plan for potential outbreaks of emerging or resurgent HIDs, lead a team in the ICU, perform emergency triage, and provide care for patients with a HID. The book also reviews some of the most prevalent highly infectious diseases, including influenza, SARS, plague, anthrax, and malaria.



Written by experts in the field, Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide is a valuable resource for critical care and infectious disease specialists who treat patients afflicted with a highly infectious disease in the ICU. 

Reviews

“Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide is an excellent, concise resource that provides valuable information about the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and management of various infectious diseases and helps critical care practitioners to manage the current pandemic and to be ‘ready for the next epidemic.’” (Mohamed Mohamed Tawfik and Amal Ahmed Nour, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Vol. 131 (3), September, 2020)


Editors and Affiliations

  • Division of Critical Care, Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, Belize City, Belize

    Jorge Hidalgo

  • National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA

    Laila Woc-Colburn

About the editors

Jorge Hidalgo, MD, MACP, MCCM, FCCP


Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital
Division of Critical Care
Princess Margaret Dr.
Belize City
Belize


Laila Woc-Colburn, MD, DTM&H, FACP, FIDSA
Baylor College of Medicine
National School of Tropical Medicine

Houston, TX  
USA


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care

  • Book Subtitle: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide

  • Editors: Jorge Hidalgo, Laila Woc-Colburn

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33803-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33802-2Published: 03 January 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-33805-3Published: 03 January 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-33803-9Published: 02 January 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 276

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Infectious Diseases

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