Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine presents information required by clinicians as they evaluate patients with these conditions-providing authoritative sections on specific clinical syndromes and antibiotic selection.

Features:

• Special issues raised by bioterrorism
• Infections and therapy in the intensive care unit
• The evaluation and diagnosis of patients
• Clinical approaches to patients in the CCU
• Aspects of infectious disease that are commonly omitted in textbooks on critical care medicine

Contents

General Concepts

• Infection Control Considerations: Isolation/Precaution
• Fever in the Critical Care Unit
• Sepsis and Mimics of Sepsis

Clinical Syndromes

• Meningitis and Fever and the Mimics
• Encephalitis and its Mimics
• Postneurosurgical Infections
• Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia
• Nosocomial Pneumonia
• Lung Abscess/Pleural Empyema
• Acute Myocarditis and Acute Pericarditis
• Infective Endocarditis and Mimics of Endocarditis.
• Central Intravascular Line Infections
• Intra-Abdominal Surgical Infections and Mimics of Intra-Abdominal Infections
• C. difficile Diarrhea/Colitis
• Urosepsis
• Severe Skin and Soft Tissue Infections

Special Problem Areas

• Fever and Rash
• Infections in Returning Travelers
• Infections in AIDS Patients
• Infections in Cirrhosis
• Infections in Uremic Patients
• Infections in Asplenics
• Infected Multiple-System Trauma Patient
• Bioterrorism

Therapeutic Considerations

• Antibiotic Selection in the Intensive Care Unit
• Antibiotic Resistance in the Intensive Care Unit
• Antibiotic Dosing in Hepatic/Renal Insufficiency
• Antibiotic Therapy in Penicillin-Allergic Patients
• Antibiotic Side Effects

Index

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