Infections in critical care areas
By: guest editor, Stephen D. Krau.
Contributors: Krau, Stephen D.; Prevost, Suzanne S.
Series: Critical care nursing clinics of North America -- v. 19, no. 1
Publisher: Saunders
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781416043003
Subjects: Nosocomial infections; Intensive care nursing; Critical care medicine
Notes: "March 2007."

Spine series title: Critical care nursing clinics.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Immune responses to infection / Terri Allison Donaldson; title: An anatomy of an infection: overview of the infectious process / Kate Moore; title: Bacterial infections: management by acute and critical care nurses / Lynn C. Parsons and Stephen D. Krau; title: Rickettsial and other tick-borne infections / Barbara Fouts Flicek; title: Spirochete infections: lyme disease and southern tick-associated rash illness / Maria Overstreet; title: Antimicrobials: classifications and uses in critical care / Francisca Cisneros-Farrar and Lynn C. Parsons; title: Antimicrobial resistance in critical care / Maria A. SMith and Leigh Ann McInnis; title: Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus in critical care areas / John Travis Dunlap; title: Vancomycin-resistant enterococcus in critical care areas / Sharon Bryant and Jennifer Wilbreck; title: Sepsis in critical care / Joan E. King; title: Making sense of multiple organ dysfunction syndrome / Stephen D. Krau; title: Managing the infected heart / Maria A. Smith, Tasha L. Smith and Beth Towery Davidson; title: Avian influenza: are we ready? / Stephen D. Krau and Lynn C. Parsons.