Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide

ISBN-13: 9783030338022 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 276 str.

Laila Woc-Colburn; Jorge Hidalgo

Recenzje

"Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide is an excellent, concise resource that provides valuable information about the epidemiology, pathogenesis, and management of various infectious diseases and helps critical care practitioners to manage the current pandemic and to be 'ready for the next epidemic.'" (Mohamed Mohamed Tawfik and Amal Ahmed Nour, Anesthesia & Analgesia, Vol. 131 (3), September, 2020)

Spis treści

1 How Infectious Diseases Have Influenced our Culture

Laila Woc-Colburn, Ajay Hotchandani 

2 Evolution and Globalization of Antimicrobial Resistance

Laila Woc-Colburn, Daniel Gondinez

3 Emergency Triage of Highly Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism

Sarah Bezek, Michael Jaung, Joy Mackey

 

4 Diagnostics: The Role of the Laboratory

Azka Afzal, Holland Kaplan, Tina Motazedi, Talha Qureshi, Laila Woc-Colburn

5 Influenza, Measles, SARS, MERS, and Smallpox

Daniel S. Chertow, Jason Kindrachuk

6 Zoonotic Infections and Biowarfare Agents in Critical Care: Anthrax, Plague, and Tularemia

Ryan C. Maves, Catherine M. Berjohn

7 Hemorrhagic Fevers

James Sullivan, Stephen Brannan 

8 Multidrug Resistance Bacterial Infection

Laila Woc-Colburn, Denise Marie A. Francisco

9 Central Nervous System Infection

Ahmed Reda Taha

10 Intracranial Pressure Monitoring and Management in Bacterial Meningitis

Ignacio J. Previgliano

11 Rabies

Gerald Marin-Garcia, Javier Perez Fernandez, Gloria Rodriguez Vega

12 Tetanus

Javier Perez Fernandez, Gerald Marin-Garcia, Gloria Rodriguez Vega

13 Malaria

Jorge Hidalgo, Pedro Arriaga, Bruno Alvarez Concejo

14 Tuberculosis Multidrug Resistance (MDR-TB)

Juan Ignacio Silesky-Jiménez

15 Preparing the ICU for a Highly Infectious Disease

Alex Dagoberto Loarca Chávez, Jorge Hidalgo, Adel Mohamed Yasin Alsisi 

16 Pandemic Declaration and Preparation

Michael J. Plotkowski

O autorze

Jorge Hidalgo, MD, MACP, MCCM, FCCP

Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital

Division of Critical Care

Princess Margaret Dr.

Belize City

Belize

Laila Woc-Colburn, MD, DTM&H, FACP, FIDSA

Baylor College of Medicine

National School of Tropical Medicine

Houston, TX  

USA

Blurb

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.

Written by experts in the field, Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide is a valuable resource for critical care and infectious disease specialists who treat patients afflicted with a highly infectious disease in the ICU.