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After the COVID-19 Crisis: Update on Complex Infectious Disease Issues in the Intensive Care Unit, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 36-4 - November 3, 2022
- Editors: Naomi P. O'Grady, Sameer S. Kadri
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 6 0 8 7 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 6 0 8 8 - 5
In this issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Naomi P. O'Grady and Sameer Kadri bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Complex… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Naomi P. O'Grady and Sameer Kadri bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Complex Infectious Diseases Issues in the Intensive Care Unit. Affected immunity of patients with COVID-19 has made management of complex infectious diseases in the intensive care unit more important than ever. This issue provides key updates for managing these complex infectious diseases and includes current clinical information for COVID-19 patients, making this a state-of-the-art collection of review articles for practicing infectious disease physicians.
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Contains 13 practice-oriented topics including timing and spectrum of antibiotic treatment for suspected sepsis and septic shock; preparing an ICU for a lethal viral respiratory pandemic; rapid implementation of a system-level ICU pandemic surge staffing amidst quarantined staff and infection control barriers; management of serious SARS-CoV-2 infection with immunotherapies; supportive care in patients with critical COVID-19; and more.
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Provides in-depth clinical reviews on complex infectious diseases issues in the ICU, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
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Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
Infectious Diseases
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Infections in the Critically Ill during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Infectious Diseases on Steroids
- Timing and Spectrum of Antibiotic Treatment for Suspected Sepsis and Septic Shock: Why so Controversial?
- Key points
- Background
- Discussion
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Cytokine Release Syndrome and Sepsis: Analogous Clinical Syndromes with Distinct Causes and Challenges in Management
- Key points
- Introduction
- Cytokine release syndrome triggers
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Preparing the Intensive Care Unit for a Lethal Viral Respiratory Pandemic
- Key points
- Introduction
- COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned
- The four S’s of surge capacity, as pertaining to the intensive care unit
- Additional considerations
- Summary
- Management of Severe and Critical COVID-19 Infection with Immunotherapies
- Key points
- Introduction
- Immunomodulation for COVID-19
- Anticytokine therapy
- JAK inhibition
- Other agents under investigation
- Immune products for viral elimination
- COVID-19 and critical illness: few answers, many questions
- Clinics care points
- Supportive Care in Patients with Critical Coronavirus Disease 2019
- Key points
- Introduction
- Noninvasive respiratory support for critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019
- Proning in nonintubated patients with coronavirus disease 2019
- Clinical judgment should inform the decision to intubate and initiate mechanical ventilation
- Patients with coronavirus disease 2019 receiving mechanical ventilation: treating acute respiratory distress syndrome
- General critical care supportive care
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Management of Highly Resistant Gram-Negative Infections in the Intensive Care Unit in the Era of Novel Antibiotics
- Key points
- Antibiotics active against multi-drug-resistant gram-negative bacteria
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Management of Unique Pneumonias Seen in the Intensive Care Unit
- Key points
- Introduction
- Definition
- Microbial causes of pneumonia
- Diagnostic testing
- Empirical treatment
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Management of Common Postoperative Infections in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- ICU Management of Invasive β-Hemolytic Streptococcal Infections
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pathogenesis
- Invasive β-Hemolytic Streptococci Epidemiology
- Invasive β-Hemolytic Streptococci Clinical Syndromes
- Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Severe Clostridioides difficile Infection in the Intensive Care Unit—Medical and Surgical Management
- Key points
- Medical management
- Surgical management
- Clinics care points
- Uses of Procalcitonin as a Biomarker in Critical Care Medicine
- Key points
- Introduction and background
- Procalcitonin as a biomarker for disease severity
- Procalcitonin in community-acquired pneumonia
- Procalcitonin as a guide for antimicrobial treatment duration
- Procalcitonin and coronavirus disease-2019
- Confounding factors
- Proposed uses
- Summary and future directions
- Clinics care points
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 36-4
- Published: November 3, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323960878
- eBook ISBN: 9780323960885
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Naomi P. O'Grady
Affiliations and expertise
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and the Critical Care Medicine Department, NIH, Baltimore, MDSK
Sameer S. Kadri
Affiliations and expertise
Head of Clinical Epidemiology Section, Critical Care Medicine Department, NIH Clinical Center, Bethesda, MD