Essentials of Clinical Infectious Diseases
Demos Medical Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-936287-91-8 (ISBN)
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This practical handbook provides readers with a quick but comprehensive overview of the major infectious disease topics and clinical approach to diagnosis and management. Covering the core areas of importance to students, residents, fellows, and practitioners in any discipline, the book presents a systematic method for understanding basic mechanisms, establishing a diagnosis, and implementing appropriate treatment for commonly encountered problems. Written in outline format with 46 short, focused chapters, this ready reference is essential reading for physicians looking for guidance in navigating the constellation of symptoms and myriad treatment options for patients with infectious diseases.
Organised by body system, each section begins with a general framework covering clinical presentation, laboratory and diagnostic evaluation, and empirical antibiotic therapy. Individual chapters within sections are devoted to particular diseases and cover pathogenesis and risk factors, microbial causes, clinical manifestations, approach to the patient (history, examination, and diagnostic studies), diagnostic criteria, and medical, antimicrobial, and surgical management. Essentials of Clinical Infectious Diseases also addresses important related topics including antimicrobial agents, medical microbiology, fever and neutropenia, approach to evaluating leukocytosis, infectious diseases approach to SIRS and sepsis, and basics of infection control and hospital epidemiology. With this book, readers will have at hand the fundamental knowledge necessary to sharpen the clinical problem-solving skills that every medical professional needs to provide quality care to patients.
Features of Essentials of Clinical Infectious Diseases Include:
A detailed discussion of core infectious disease topics
Antibiotic information specific to the disease process with adult, pediatric, and OB-GYN dosing considerations
Basic infection control procedures for hospitalised patients
Coverage of important related topics
References to current literature and classic articles for further study
A focus on clinical approaches to evaluation and management of the patient
William F. Wright, DO, MPH, Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Institute for Human Virology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD.
I. Introduction to Clinical Infectious Diseases; Chapter 1. Introduction to Infectious Disease; Chapter 2.Introduction to Antimicrobial Agents; Chapter 3.Introduction to Medical Microbiology; II. Approach to Fever and Leukocytosis; Chapter 4. Fever and NeutropenicFever; Chapter 5. Leukocytosis; III.Approach Bloodstream and Cardiovascular Infections; Chapter 6.Endocarditis; Chapter 7.Myocarditis; Chapter 8. Cardiac Device Infections; Chapter 9. Central Venous Catheter Infectious; IV. Approach to Pulmonary Infections; Chapter 10. Pneumonia; Chapter 11.Empyema; Chapter 12. Lung Abscess; Chapter 13. Tuberculosis; V. Approach to Gastrointestinal Infections; Chapter 14.Diverticulitis; Chapter 15.Appendicitis; Chapter 16. Pancreatic Infections; Chapter 17. Peritonitis; Chapter 18. Infectious Diarrhea; Chapter 19. Clostridium difficile Colitis; VI. Approach to Hepatobiliary Infections; Chapter 20. Cholecystitis; Chapter 21. Cholangitis; VII. Approach to Hepatic Infections; Chapter 22. Hepatic Abscess; Chapter 23. Hepatitis A; Chapter 24. Hepatitis B; Chapter 25. Hepatitis C; VIII. Approach to Renal-Urinary Infections; Chapter 26. Urinary Tract Infections; Chapter 27. Pyelonephritis and Renal Abscess; Chapter 28. Catheter-related urinary tract infections; IX. Approach to Neurological Infections; Chapter 29. Meningitis; Chapter 30.Encephalitis; Chapter 31. Brain Abscess; X. Approach to Orthopedic-Related Infections; Chapter 32. Osteomyelitis; Chapter 33. Septic Arthritis; Chapter 34. Prosthetic-Joint Infections; XI. Approach to Skin and Soft-tissue Infections; Chapter 35. Cellulitis; Chapter 36. Diabetic-Foot Infections; XII. Approach to Sexually Transmitted Infections; Chapter 37. Sexual transmitted diseases; Chapter 38.HIV and AIDS; XIII. Approach to Infections related to Obstetrics and Gynecology; Chapter 39. Obstetrics and gynecology related infections; XIV. Approach to Eye Infections; Chapter 40. Keratitis; Chapter 41.Endophthalmitis; XV. Approach to Sepsis; Chapter 42. SIRS and Sepsis; XVI. Approach to Transplant-related Infections; Chapter 43. Hematopoietic stem-cell transplant infections; Chapter 44.Solid-organ transplant infections; XVII.Infection Control and Epidemiology; Chapter 45.Basic approach to Infection Control and Epidemiology; Section VI. Approach to Hepatobiliary Infections.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.5.2013 |
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| Verlagsort | New York, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie |
| ISBN-10 | 1-936287-91-9 / 1936287919 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-936287-91-8 / 9781936287918 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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