Nosocomial pneumonia
Subtitle: strategies for management
By: edited by Jordi Rello.
Contributors: Rello, Jordi.
Publisher: J. Wiley
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chichester, England; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470059555
Subjects: Pneumonia; Nosocomial infections; Pneumonia -- therapy; Cross Infection -- prevention & control; Cross Infection -- therapy; Pneumonia -- prevention & control; Respiration, Artificial -- adverse effects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Health care associated-pneumonia : epidemiology, microbiology, and clinical outcomes / Marcos I. Restrepo & Antonio Anzuelo; title: Prevention of hospital-acquired pneumonia / Rafael Sierra & Antonio Gordillo; title: Role of the microbiology laboratory in the diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia / Emilio Bouza & Almudena Burillo & Patricia Muñoz; title: Pathophysiology of pneumonia / Amalia Alcón & Mauricio Valencia & Antoni Torres; title: Clinical approach to the patient with HAP / Jordi Rello & Miguel Gallego; title: Pneumonia due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Jordi Vallés & Dolors Marisca; title: Hospital acquired-pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus / Despoina Koulenti & Kemal Agbaht; title: Nosocomial pneumonia by Acinetobacter baumannii / Jose Garnacho-Montero & María Eugenia Pachón & J.M. Cisneros; title: Fungal pneumonia / George Dimopoulos & E. Papadomichelakis & P. Kopteridis; title: General pharmacologic considerations and dose adjustment in antibiotic therapy for HAP / Pierluigi Viale & Federico Pea; title: Minimally invasive diagnostic strategy in immunocompromized patients with pulmonary infiltrates / Sandra De Miranda & Élie Azoulay; title: Pneumonia in trauma patients / Helene A. Haeberle & Wolfgang A. Krueger; title: Acute respiratory distress syndrome and pneumonia / Jean Chastre .. [et al.]; title: Assessment of patients with poor resolution of hospital acquired pneumonia / Richard G. Wunderink & Keenan A. Hawkins; title: Approach to patients with recurrent vap / Grant W. Waterer & Diego López; title: Costs for hospital-acquired pneumonia & ventilator-associated pneumonia / Andrew F. Shorr & William L. Jackson.