Main description:

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.

Contents:

1 How Infectious Diseases Have Influenced our CultureLaila Woc-Colburn, Ajay Hotchandani
2 Evolution and Globalization of Antimicrobial ResistanceLaila Woc-Colburn, Daniel Gondinez
3 Emergency Triage of Highly Infectious Diseases and BioterrorismSarah Bezek, Michael Jaung, Joy Mackey 4 Diagnostics: The Role of the LaboratoryAzka Afzal, Holland Kaplan, Tina Motazedi, Talha Qureshi, Laila Woc-Colburn
5 Influenza, Measles, SARS, MERS, and SmallpoxDaniel S. Chertow, Jason Kindrachuk
6 Zoonotic Infections and Biowarfare Agents in Critical Care: Anthrax, Plague, and TularemiaRyan C. Maves, Catherine M. Berjohn
7 Hemorrhagic FeversJames Sullivan, Stephen Brannan
8 Multidrug Resistance Bacterial InfectionLaila Woc-Colburn, Denise Marie A. Francisco
9 Central Nervous System InfectionAhmed Reda Taha
10 Intracranial Pressure Monitoring and Management in Bacterial MeningitisIgnacio J. Previgliano
11 RabiesGerald Marin-Garcia, Javier Perez Fernandez, Gloria Rodriguez Vega
12 TetanusJavier Perez Fernandez, Gerald Marin-Garcia, Gloria Rodriguez Vega
13 MalariaJorge Hidalgo, Pedro Arriaga, Bruno Alvarez Concejo
14 Tuberculosis Multidrug Resistance (MDR-TB)Juan Ignacio Silesky-Jimenez
15 Preparing the ICU for a Highly Infectious DiseaseAlex Dagoberto Loarca Chavez, Jorge Hidalgo, Adel Mohamed Yasin Alsisi
16 Pandemic Declaration and PreparationMichael J. Plotkowski