Full Description
This book covers microbiological features of the diseases that require intensive care support, including iatrogenic and hospital-acquired infections. The knowledge will assist in the early diagnosis and treatment of bacterial, viral, and fungal infections requiring critical care admission to improve patient outcomes. All microbiological and therapeutic concerns and management of infectious disorders of all human body systems, from the brain to the musculoskeletal system, are addressed. It also describes practical and descriptive ways to prevent, diagnose, and manage various known and forthcoming healthcare-associated illnesses, ranging from MRSA to VRE and others.
Applied Microbiology in Intensive Care Medicine will benefit not only intensive and critical care practitioners but also infectious disease practitioners and physicians, surgeons, intensivists, clinical pharmacists, nurses, and technicians in intensive care units.
Contents
1 Necrotizing fasciitis: Pillars for improved patients' outcome.- 2 Hospital acquired infections: Key for prevention and clinical bundles.- 3 Antimicrobial Stewardship in ICU: A success story.- 4 Perioperative Sepsis and Septic Shock: An update.- 5 Urosepsis and Septic Shock: A simple infection progressing to complex one.- 6 Community Acquired pneumonia- Recent Advances.- 7 Septic abdomen: An update on its microbiology and management.- 8 Descending Necrotizing Mediastinitis: A Life-threatening infection.- 9 Acute adult supraglottitis: An update.- 10 Meningitis and neurosurgical treatment: an update.- 11 MRSA to VRE: Management and prevention.- 12 Future of Applied Microbiology in Critical Care.- 13 Importance of Infectious Disease specialist and/or Clinical Microbiologist during multidisciplinary rounds in Intensive Care Unit.- 14 Obstetric Sepsis and Management.- 15 Infection and sepsis management in trauma.- 16 Intensivist's Role in Epidemic and Pandemic.
