Infection Management for Geriatrics in Long Term Care Facilities examines current strategies to diagnose, treat, control, and prevent common infectious diseases in long-term care geriatric facilities.

Features:

• Supplies a new appendix featuring studies on the initiation of antibiotics programs in long-term care facilities
• Contains the most recent guidelines to evaluate fever and infection in residents of long-term care environments
• Includes useful algorithms to evaluate and treat specific infections in long-term care facilities
• Helps practitioners review common sites of infection, types of organisms that commonly cause disease, mechanisms impacting the spread and transfer of infection, and strategies to formulate policies and procedures for infection control in geriatric facilities
• Presents methods to establish effective infection control programs
• Clearly outlines techniques to combat drug-resistant organisms
• Includes essential data on emergency response to an outbreak

Contents

1. Demographics and Economics of LTC
2. Epidemiology and Special Aspects of Infectious Diseases in Aging
3. Evaluation of Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities Versus Acute Care Hospitals
4. Role of Functional Assement in Evaluating and Managing Infections in Long-term. Impaired Immunity and Increased Risk of Infections in Older Adults:
5. Impact of Chronic Disease on Immunosenescence. Nutrition and Infection
6. Ethical Issues of Infectious Disease Interventions
7. Clinical Manifestations of Infections
8. Establishing an Infection Control Program in Long-Term Care Facilities
9. Epidemiologic Investigation of Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Long Term Care Facilities
10. An Approach to Antimicrobial Therapy
11. UrinaryTract Infection
12. Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
13. Pneumonia and Bronchitis
14. Tuberculosis
15. Infected Pressure Ulcers
16. Herpes Zoster, Cellulitis and Scabies
17. Infectious Diarrhea
18. Hepatitis in Long-term Care Facilities
19. Conjunctivitis, Otitis and Sinusitis
20. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in the Nursing Home
21. Vaccinations
22. Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
23. Vancomycin (Glycopeptide)- Resistant Enterococci in the Long-term Care Setting
24. Gram-Negative Bacteria
25. Fungal Infections
26. Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
27. Definitions of Common Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities
28. Fever Guide to Evaluating and Infection in a Long-Term Care Setting
29. Minimum Criteria for Initiation of Antimicrobials in Long-Term Care Facilities

Index

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