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9780470518267

Nosocomial Pneumonia: Strategies for Management

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  • ISBN13:

    9780470518267

  • ISBN10:

    047051826X

  • Format: eBook
  • Copyright: 2008-05-01
  • Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
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Summary

This multi-contributed text, co-ordinated by one of the leading authorities in the field, is a unique resource to cover in depth the management of the important issue of Nosocomial Pneumonia in respiratory medicine and critical care. This disease presents the clinician with a variety of challenges, in both diagnosis and management, all of which represent a significant concern for the welfare of patients whose ability to combat infection is frequently already compromised.Nosocomial Pneumonia: Strategies for Management is dedicated specifically to this most common hospital acquired respiratory infection and reviews important new advances in therapeutics, including drug resistance. It is an essential resource for all postgraduates and specialist physicians in pulmonology and infectious diseases.

Table of Contents

Preface
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Health Care Associated-Pneumonia: Epidemiology, Microbiology and Clinical Outcomes
Prevention of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
Role of the microbiology laboratory in the diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia
Pathophysiology of Pneumonia
Clinical approach to the patient with HAP
Pneumonia due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Hospital acquired-pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus
Nosocomial pneumonia by Acinetobacter baumannii
Fungal pneumonia
General pharmacologic considerations and dose adjustment in antibiotic therapy for HAP
Minimally Invasive Diagnostic Strategy in Immunocompromized Patients with Pulmonary Infiltrates
Pneumonia in trauma patients
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and pneumonia
Assessment of patients with poor resolution of Hospital Acquired Pneumonia
Approach to Patients with recurrent VAP
Costs for Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia & Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Index
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