Intensive Care Infections
A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Management in Adult Patients
Published on 21. August 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-7020-2242-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is a very practical hands on guide to care of patients with infections in the intensive-care unit. The book is separated into two parts, the first dealing with general background information and the second system based, covering all commonly encountered infections. Emphasis is on management advice, providing consensus views where possible. Key management options will be presented in box form at the end of each chapter.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Health Sciences
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Medical microbiologists, intensive-care physicians, anaesthetists; trainees in these three specialities, surgeons, infection-control nurses.
Professional manual
Illustrations
31 ills.
Dimensions
Height: 138 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
413 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7020-2242-5 (9780702022425)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
1 General Backgound 1 Pathogenesis of Infection in the Intensive Care Unit 2 Epidemiology of Infection 3 Control of Infection 4 Diagnosis of Infection 5 Management of Infection 6 Therapeutic Interventions in Septic Shock 2 System-Based Infection 7 Respiratory Infections 8 Systemic Infections 9 Abdominal Infections 10 Trauma and Soft-Tissue Infections 11 Central Nervous System Infections 12 Infection in Immunosuppressed Patients 13 Infections of the Cardiovascular System