Sepsis
Contributors: Guillermo Ortiz-Ruiz (Editor); Marco A. Perafan (Editor); Eugene Faist (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: July 28, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780387204512
Subjects: Intensive care medicine; Respiratory medicine; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Medical / Emergency Medicine; Emergency Medicine; Pathophysiology; Pneumonia; Pneumonia, Bacterial; Sepsis; Septicemia
First sentence: Infection occurs in 15% to 40% of admissions to the intensive care unit (ICU); mortality ranges from 10% to 80%.
Description: Addresses various aspects of the disease, including diagnoses, epidemiology, ventilator-related complications, pneumonia, and other critical illnesses relating or leading to the disease. This book, complete with explanative tables and charts, provides physicians with a concise and comprehensive guide for the treatment of sepsis in relation to varied pulmonary conditions.