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Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care

A Comprehensive Clinical Guide

von: Jorge Hidalgo, Laila Woc-Colburn
85,59 €
Verlag:	Springer
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	02.01.2020
ISBN/EAN:	9783030338039
Sprache:	englisch

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Titelbeschreibung

<div>This book provides a comprehensive overview of highly infectious diseases (HIDs) in the ICU. The text is designed to help critical care specialists and other healthcare practitioners prepare and plan for potential outbreaks of emerging or resurgent HIDs, lead a team in the ICU, perform emergency triage, and provide care for patients with a HID. The book also reviews some of the most prevalent highly infectious diseases, including influenza, SARS, plague, anthrax, and malaria.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Written by experts in the field, <i>Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide</i> is a valuable resource for critical care and infectious disease specialists who treat patients afflicted with a highly infectious disease in the ICU. </div>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

<div>1 How Infectious Diseases Have Influenced our Culture</div><div>Laila Woc-Colburn, Ajay Hotchandani </div><div><br></div><div>2 Evolution and Globalization of Antimicrobial Resistance</div><div>Laila Woc-Colburn, Daniel Gondinez</div><div><br></div><div>3 Emergency Triage of Highly Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism</div><div>Sarah Bezek, Michael Jaung, Joy Mackey</div><div> </div><div>4 Diagnostics: The Role of the Laboratory</div><div>Azka Afzal, Holland Kaplan, Tina Motazedi, Talha Qureshi, Laila Woc-Colburn</div><div><br></div><div>5 Influenza, Measles, SARS, MERS, and Smallpox</div><div>Daniel S. Chertow, Jason Kindrachuk</div><div><br></div><div>6 Zoonotic Infections and Biowarfare Agents in Critical Care: Anthrax, Plague, and Tularemia</div><div>Ryan C. Maves, Catherine M. Berjohn</div><div><br></div><div>7 Hemorrhagic Fevers</div><div>James Sullivan, Stephen Brannan </div><div><br></div>8 Multidrug Resistance Bacterial Infection<div>Laila Woc-Colburn, Denise Marie A. Francisco</div><div><br></div><div>9 Central Nervous System Infection</div><div>Ahmed Reda Taha</div><div><br></div><div>10 Intracranial Pressure Monitoring and Management in Bacterial Meningitis</div>Ignacio J. Previgliano<div><br></div><div>11 Rabies</div><div>Gerald Marin-Garcia, Javier Perez Fernandez, Gloria Rodriguez Vega</div><div><br></div><div>12 Tetanus</div><div>Javier Perez Fernandez, Gerald Marin-Garcia, Gloria Rodriguez Vega</div><div><br></div><div>13 Malaria</div><div>Jorge Hidalgo, Pedro Arriaga, Bruno Alvarez Concejo</div><div><br></div><div>14 Tuberculosis Multidrug Resistance (MDR-TB)</div><div>Juan Ignacio Silesky-Jiménez</div><div><br></div><div>15 Preparing the ICU for a Highly Infectious Disease</div><div>Alex Dagoberto Loarca Chávez, Jorge Hidalgo, Adel Mohamed Yasin Alsisi </div><div><br></div><div>16 Pandemic Declaration and Preparation</div><div>Michael J. Plotkowski</div>

Autorenportrait

<div><div>Jorge Hidalgo, MD, MACP, MCCM, FCCP<br></div></div><div>Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital</div><div>Division of Critical Care</div><div>Princess Margaret Dr.</div><div>Belize City</div><div>Belize</div><div><br></div><div><div>Laila Woc-Colburn, MD, DTM&H, FACP, FIDSA</div><div>Baylor College of Medicine</div><div>National School of Tropical Medicine</div></div><div>Houston, TX  </div><div>USA</div><div><br></div>

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<div>This book provides a comprehensive overview of highly infectious diseases (HIDs) in the ICU. The text is designed to help critical care specialists and other healthcare practitioners prepare and plan for potential outbreaks of emerging or resurgent HIDs, lead a team in the ICU, perform emergency triage, and provide care for patients with a HID. The book also reviews some of the most prevalent highly infectious diseases, including influenza, SARS, plague, anthrax, and malaria.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Written by experts in the field, <i>Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide</i> is a valuable resource for critical care and infectious disease specialists who treat patients afflicted with a highly infectious disease in the ICU. </div>

Sonderbeitrag

<p>Provides a framework on how to prepare and plan for potential outbreaks of emerging or resurgent highly infectious diseases</p><p>Profiles some of the most prevalent highly infectious diseases</p><p>Written by experts in the field</p>