Essentials of Clinical Infectious Diseases

 

Authors : William F. Wright
Edition : 2
Year : 2018
Description :


Praise for the previous edition:
“Approaches near perfection…This is an excellent introduction to infectious diseases by a group of authors who take a straightforward and bullet-point approach to thinking and talking about clinical issues…”—Doody’s Reviews

Updated second edition of the concise but comprehensive handbook of clinical infectious disease for students, residents, primary care medical providers, nurses, and PAs. Written in outline format with short, focused chapters, the book presents a systematic method for understanding basic mechanisms, establishing a diagnosis, and implementing appropriate treatment for commonly encountered problems.


Essentials of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Second Edition begins with a general framework covering clinical reasoning, antimicrobial agents and microbiology, and antimicrobial stewardship. Individual chapters devoted to the broad range of infectious diseases are organized by body system and feature targeted presentation of pathogenesis and risk factors, microbial causes, clinical manifestations, patient work-up, diagnostic criteria, and medical, antimicrobial, and surgical management. The book also addresses important related topics including fever and neutropenia, approach to evaluating ectoparasite-related infections, sepsis and travel medicine, infection control, and hospital epidemiology. Designed for busy practitioners at any level looking to sharpen the clinical problem-solving skills required to provide the highest quality care to patients with infectious diseases.


Key Features:

Presents core clinical infectious disease topics in concise easy-to-read format
Revised and updated to reflect recent developments in the field consistent with evidence-based literature and current clinical practice guidelines
Six new chapters on Lyme disease, anorectal infections, travel medicine, dental infections, antimicrobial stewardship, and clinical reasoning and statistics
Focus on the approach to evaluation and management of the patient
Incorporates essential antimicrobial therapy information with adult, pediatric, and OB-GYN dosing considerations
  


Table of contents : CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION TO CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES
II. APPROACH TO FEVER AND LEUKOCYTOSIS
III. APPROACH TO BLOODSTREAM AND CARDIOVASCULAR INFECTIONS
IV. APPROACH TO PULMONARY INFECTIONS
V. APPROACH TO GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTIONS
VI. APPROACH TO HEPATOBILIARY INFECTIONS
VII. APPROACH TO HEPATIC INFECTIONS
VIII. APPROACH TO RENAL–URINARY INFECTIONS
IX. APPROACH TO NEUROLOGICAL INFECTIONS
X. APPROACH TO ORTHOPEDIC-RELATED INFECTIONS
XI. APPROACH TO SKIN AND SOFT-TISSUE INFECTIONS
XII. APPROACH TO SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTIONS
XIII. APPROACH TO INFECTIONS RELATED TO OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY
XIV. APPROACH TO EYE INFECTIONS
XV. APPROACH TO SEPSIS
XVI. APPROACH TO TRANSPLANT-RELATED INFECTIONS
XVII. APPROACH TO ECTOPARASITE-RELATED INFECTIONS
XVIII. INFECTION CONTROL AND EPIDEMIOLOGY


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