Full Description
COVID-19 Viral Sepsis: Impact on Disparities, Disability, and Health Outcomes introduces the concepts of viral sepsis, its origins, and its implications. COVID-19 is a leading cause of viral sepsis with considerable impact on morbidity and mortality. Early recognition of signs and symptoms of COVID-19 can potentially impact patient outcomes.
The book opens with an overview of sepsis and viral sepsis. The discussion continues with an introduction to COVID-19 and related topics on its epidemiology, diagnosis, clinical manifestations, mild to moderate disease management, and the critical care treatment of COVID-19 patients. Sequelae of COVID-19, long-term consequences, challenges, current landscape, and future preparedness round out the coverage.
COVID-19 Viral Sepsis: Impact on Disparities, Disability, and Health Outcomes is a valuable resource with contributions from experts on the front line of the COVID-19 crisis providing insight and key principles in the recognition, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of sepsis due to COVID-19.
Contents
1. Introduction to sepsis
Uzma Syed and Cindy Hou
2. Viral sepsis
Lauren Touleyrou and Teena Chopra
3. Introduction to COVID-19
Lucjan Lang and Cindy Hou
4. COVID-19 epidemiology
Aneeka Ratnayake, April McDougal, Patricia Kissinger, Theresa Sokol and Crystal Zheng
5. Diagnosis of COVID-19
Victoria Wong Murray and Cindy Hou
6. COVID-19 clinical manifestations
Todd P. Levin and Nikunj Vyas
7. COVID-19: Management of mild-moderate disease
Mark Condoluci, Mark Fussa and Joseph B. Glowacki
8. Critical care management of COVID-19 patients
Kelly Cawcutt, Dan Johnson and Shaun Thompson
9. Challenges and opportunities: structural racism and its impact on COVID-19
Tiffany B. Truong, Alec J. Calac, Seif L. Nasir, Laura E. Flores, Ryan F. Boyland, Yasmeen D. Bora, Nada Fadul and Jasmine R. Marcelin
10. COVID-19: secondary and superimposed bacterial infections
Jacinda C. Abdul-Mutakabbir and Karen K. Tan
11. COVID-19 and secondary fungal infections
Matthias Egger, Agostinho Carvalho, Gustavo H. Goldman, Ashraf S. Ibrahim and Martin Hoenigl
12. COVID-19: sequelae and long-term consequences
Alice K. Min, Michelle Evans, Christopher Vo, Shaoli Chaudhuri, Connie Zhao, Justin Frere, Randal Serafini, Sean T.H. Liu and Talia H. Swartz
13. COVID-19: the changing landscape
Laila Woc-Colburn
14. COVID-19: preparedness for this pandemic and beyond
Syra S. Madad, Priya Dhagat and Saskia Popescu
