Research Catalog

Title

Infectious diseases in critical care medicine / edited by Burke A. Cunha.

Publication

New York : Informa Healthcare, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

Cunha, Burke A.

Description

xix, 663 pages : illustrations; 27 cm.

Series Statement

Infectious disease and therapy ; 40

Uniform Title

Infectious disease and therapy ; v. 40.

Subject

• Nosocomial infections
• Critical care medicine
• Intensive care units
• Communicable Diseases > diagnosis
• Critical Care
• Diagnosis, Differential
• Intensive Care Units

Note

• Previous ed.: New York: M. Dekker, 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus/vancomycin-resistant enterococci colonization and infection in the critical care unit / C. Glen Mayhall -- 2. Outbreak investigation in the critical care unit / Brian W. Cooper -- 3. Clinical approach to fever in the critical care unit / Burke A. Cunha -- 4. Sepsis and its mimics in the critical care unit / Burke A. Cunha -- 5. Meningitis and its mimics in the critical care unit / Burke A. Cunha -- 6. Encephalitis and its mimics in the critical care unit / Burke A. Cunha -- 7. Severe head and neck infections in the critical care unit / Franco Paradisi and Giampaolo Corti -- 8. Severe community-acquired pneumonia in the critical care unit / Burke A. Cunha -- 9. Nosocomial pneumonia in the critical care unit / Emilio Bouza, Almudena Burillo and Maria V. Torres -- 10. Pleural empyema/lung abscess in the critical care unit / John G. Bartlett -- 11. Infective endocarditis and its mimics in the critical care unit / John L. Brusch -- 12. Acute myocarditis and acute pericarditis in the critical care unit / Jason M. Lazar, Diane H. Johnson and Burke A. Cunha -- 13. Central intravenous line infections in the critical care unit / Burke A. Cunha -- 14. Intra-abdominal surgical infections and their mimics in the critical care unit / Meghann L. Kaiser and Samuel E. Wilson -- 15. Clostridium difficile - associated diarrhea and colitis in the critical care unit / Marci Drees and Sherwood L. Gorbach -- 16. Severe skin and soft tissue infections in the critical care unit / Mamta Sharma and Louis D. Saravolatz -- 17. Infections in patients on steroids in the critical care unit / John N. Sheagren -- 18. Fever and rash in the critical care unit / Lee S. Engel, Charles V. Sanders and Fred A. Lopez -- 19. Tropical infections in the critical care unit / David R. Tribble and Kenneth F. Wagner -- 20. HIV/AIDS in the critical care unit / Larry I. Lutwick -- 21. Infections in cirrhosis in the critical care unit / Laurel C. Preheim -- 22. Infections associated with diabetes in the critical care unit / Larry I. Lutwick -- 23. Infection in organ transplant patients in the critical care unit / Patricia Munoz, Almudena Burillo and Emilio Bouza -- 24. Infections in asplenics in the critical care unit / Jihad Slim and Leon G. Smith -- 25. Infections in burns / Steven E. Wolf, Basil A. Pruitt and Seung H. Kim -- 26. Urosepsis in the critical care unit / Burke A. Cunha -- 27. Infections related to bioterrorism / David Schlossberg -- 28. Antibiotic dosing in hepatic/renal insufficiency / Damary C. Torres, Donna Sym and April Correll -- 29. Adverse reactions to antibiotics / Eric V. Granowitz and Richard B. Brown -- 30. Antibiotic kinetics in the febrile multiple system trauma patient / Donald E. Fry -- 31. Antibiotic selection and control of resistance in the critical care unit / Burke A. Cunha -- 32. Antimicrobial therapy in the penicillin-allergic patient in the critical care unit / Burke A. Cunha.

ISBN

0849336171 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006046567
• 9780849336171

OCLC

• ocm70218024
• SCSB-5283075

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries