Pneumonia
By: Michael S. Niederman, guest editor
Series: Clinics in chest medicine -- v. 20, no. 3; Clinics in chest medicine -- v. 20, no. 3.
Publisher: W.B. Saunders, Co.
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 696
Subjects: Pneumonia; Respiratory organs; Diseases; Diagnosis; Physiopathology; Therapy
Notes: "September 1999."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pulmonary host defenses : implications for therapy  -- Carol M. Mason, Steve Nelson; title: Atypical pathogens in community-acquired pneumonia  -- David Lieberman; title: Drug-resistant pathogens in community- and hospital-acquired pneumonia  -- J. Thomas Cross, Jr., G. Douglas Campbell, Jr.; title: Fungal pneumonias : the endemic mycoses  -- Mitchell Goldman, Philip C. Johnson, George A. Sarosi; title: Use of prognostic scoring and outcome assessment tools in the admission decision for community-acquired pneumonia  -- Nathan C. Dean; title: Diagnostic testing for community-acquired pneumonia  -- Shawn J. Skerrett; title: Radiology of pneumonia  -- Douglas S. Katz, Ann N. Leung; title: Pneumonia in the elderly  -- Charles Feldman; title: Severe community-acquired pneumonia  -- Santiago Ewig, Antoni Torres; title: Antibiotic therapy for community-acquired pneumonia  -- Lionel A. Mandell; title: Strategies for early discharge of the hospitalized patient with community-acquired pneumonia  -- Robert E. Siegel; title: Infection of the pleural space  -- John E. Heffner; title: Nonresolving or slowly resolving pneumonia  -- Tünay Kuru, Joseph P. Lynch III; title: Epidemiology and risk factors for nosocomial pneumonia : emphasis on prevention  -- Marin H. Kollef; title: Diagnostic testing for ventilator-associated pneumonia  -- Miquel Gallego, Jordi Rello; title: Therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia -- A. Brent Carter, Douglas B. Hornick.