Infectious diseases in critical care medicine
By: edited by Burke A. Cunha.
Contributors: Cunha, Burke A.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Infectious disease and therapy -- 40; Infectious disease and therapy -- v. 40.
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 663
ISBN-13: 9780849336171; 9780849336171
Subjects: Nosocomial infections.; Critical care medicine.; Intensive care units.; Communicable Diseases -- diagnosis.; Critical Care.; Diagnosis, Differential.; Intensive Care Units.
Notes: Previous ed.: New York: M. Dekker, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus/vancomycin-resistant enterococci colonization and infection in the critical care unit; title: Outbreak investigation in the critical care unit; title: Clinical approach to fever in the critical care unit; title: Sepsis and its mimics in the critical care unit; title: Meningitis and its mimics in the critical care unit; title: Encephalitis and its mimics in the critical care unit; title: Severe head and neck infections in the critical care unit; title: Severe community-acquired pneumonia in the critical care unit; title: Nosocomial pneumonia in the critical care unit; title: Pleural empyema/lung abscess in the critical care unit; title: Infective endocarditis and its mimics in the critical care unit; title: Acute myocarditis and acute pericarditis in the critical care unit; title: Central intravenous line infections in the critical care unit; title: Intra-abdominal surgical infections and their mimics in the critical care unit; title: Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea and colitis in the critical care unit; title: Severe skin and soft tissue infections in the critical care unit; title: Infections in patients on steroids in the critical care unit; title: Fever and rash in the critical care unit; title: Tropical infections in the critical care unit; title: HIV/AIDS in the critical care unit; title: Infections in cirrhosis in the critical care unit; title: Infections associated with diabetes in the critical care unit; title: Infection in organ transplant patients in the critical care unit; title: Infections in asplenics in the critical care unit; title: Infections in burns; title: Urosepsis in the critical care unit; title: Infections related to bioterrorism; title: Antibiotic dosing in hepatic/renal insufficiency; title: Adverse reactions to antibiotics; title: Antibiotic kinetics in the febrile multiple system trauma patient; title: Antibiotic selection and control of resistance in the critical care unit; title: Antimicrobial therapy in the penicillin-allergic patient in the critical care unit.