Infectious Diseases in Critical Care

Preface

Contents

List of Contributors

General Aspects

Approach to the Febrile Patient in the Intensive Care Unit

Cardiovascular Monitoring in Severe Sepsis or Septic Shock

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Infection

Opportunistic Infections in the Intensive Care Unit: A Microbiologic Overview

Infections in Critically Ill Solid Organ Transplant Recipients

HIV in the Intensive Care Unit

Fungal Infections

Using Protocols To Improve the Outcomes of Critically Ill Patients with Infection: Focus on Ventilator- Associated Pneumonia and Severe Sepsis

Microbial Surveillance in the Intensive Care Unit

Use of Anti- infective Therapy in Critically Ill Patients

Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in the Intensive Care Unit

Antifungal Therapy in the Intensive Care Unit

Dose Adjustment and Pharmacokinetics of Antibiotics in Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock

Prescription of Antimicrobial Agents in Patients Undergoing Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy

Methods for Implementing Antibiotic Control in the Intensive Care Unit

Use of Antibiotics in Pregnant Patients in the Intensive Care Unit

Immunomodulation in Sepsis

Antibiotic Induced Diarrhea

Infection Control/ Epidemiology

Fundamentals of Infection Control and Strategies for the Intensive Care Unit

Antibiotic Resistance in the Intensive Care Unit

Epidemiology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the Intensive Care Unit

How To Control MRSA Spread in the Intensive Care Unit

Epidemiology of Acinetobacter baumannii in the Intensive Care Unit

Bloodstream Infections and Infection Disease Emergencies

Brain Abscess

Falciparum Malaria

Toxic Shock Syndromes

Acute Infective Endocarditis

Influenza

Bloodstream Infection in the Intensive Care Unit

Bloodstream Infections in Patients with Total Parenteral Nutrition Catheters

Hemodialysis Catheter- Related Infections

Infection of Pulmonary Arterial and Peripheral Arterial Catheters

Prevention of Catheter- Related Bloodstream Infections in Critical Care Patients

Meningococcemia

Septic Shock

Respiratory Infections

Tracheobronchitis in the Intensive Care Unit

Severe Community- Acquired Pneumonia

Legionnaires’ Disease

Adjunctive and Supportive Measures for Community- Acquired Pneumonia

Respiratory Infection in Immunocompromised Neutropenic Patients

Pneumonia in Non- Neutropenic Immuno- compromised Patients

Community- Acquired Respiratory Complications in the Intensive Care Unit: Pneumonia and Acute Exacerbations of COPD

Management of Hospital- Associated Pneumonia in the Intensive Care Unit

Assessment of Resolution of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia

Invasive Devices in the Pathogenesis of Nosocomial Pneumonia

Infections with Surgical Implications

Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome

Sepsis in Obstetrics

Diagnosis and Management of Intra- abdominal Sepsis

Surgical Site Infection Control in the Critical Care Environment

Severe Soft Tissue Infections: A Syndrome- Based Approach

Vascular Graft Infections

Acute Mediastinitis

Pancreatic Infection

Urinary Tract Infections

Neurosurgical Infections in Intensive Care Unit Patients

Biliary Tract Infections

Subject Index