Infection and sepsis
By: Marilyn Sawyer Sommers, guest editor.
Contributors: Sommers, Marilyn Sawyer.
Series: Critical care nursing clinics of North America -- v.15, no.1
Publisher: W.B. Saunders
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
Notes: "March 2003"

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview of infection and sepsis: The cellular basis of bacterial infection / M. Linda Workman.  The cellular basis of septic shock / Marilyn Sawyer Sommers.  The role of the critical care nurse in the assessment and management of the patient with severe sepsis / Ruth M. Kleinpell.; title: Gender and life span issues: Neonatal bacterial sepsis / Judy Wright Lott.  Stress in families of children with sepsis / Lisa English Long.  Sex differences in infection and sepsis / Theresa A. Beery.  Pelvic inflammatory disease and sepsis / Judy D. Dulin and Mary C. Akers; title: Special topics: Malnutrition, infection, and sepsis in acute chronic illness / Dianne M. Felblinger.  The role of early enteral nutrition in protecting premature infants from sepsis / Frances Strodtbeck.  Economics and antibiotic administration / Ben D. Sommers.  Infections in the heart transplant recipient / Linda S. Baas ... [et al.].  Sepsis and treatment-induced immunosuppression in the patient with cancer / Beverly S. Reigle and M. Joyce Dienger.  Are plants vectors for transmission of infection in acute care? / Linda A. LaCharity and Elizabeth R. McClure.  The influence of diabetes mellitus on postoperative infections / Daleen Aragon, C. Allan Ring, and Maureen Covelli.