Infectious Disease Emergencies, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America
- 1st Edition, Volume 42-2 - April 22, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Christopher M. Colbert, Bradley W Frazee, Michael Pulia
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 0 4 5 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 3 0 4 6 - 5
In this issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, guest editors Drs. Christopher M. Colbert, Bradley W. Frazee, and Michael Pulia bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Inf… Read more
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Request a sales quoteIn this issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics, guest editors Drs. Christopher M. Colbert, Bradley W. Frazee, and Michael Pulia bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Infectious Disease Emergencies. Top experts in the field discuss key topics such as diabetic foot infections, tick-borne illness, STI diagnosis and management in the ED, bioterrorism, fever and rash, and more.
- Contains 13 relevant, practice-oriented topics including updates on pneumonia; global medicine updates; COVID diagnosis and treatment; cutting-edge diagnostics and stewardship interventions; newly-approved antibiotics; and more.
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on infectious disease emergencies, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
- 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.
Emergency Medicine
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- Foreword
- Preface
- The Diagnosis and Treatment of Adult Urinary Tract Infections in the Emergency Department
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Microbiology and antimicrobial resistance
- Diagnosis and treatment of urinary tract infection in the emergency department
- Urine testing
- Urinary tract infection therapy
- Antimicrobial stewardship in the emergency department
- Common urinary tract infection-related dilemmas in the emergency department
- Summary
- Optimizing Diagnosis and Management of Community-acquired Pneumonia in the Emergency Department
- Key points
- Introduction
- Current guidelines
- Diagnostic criteria
- Pathophysiology
- Causes of pneumonia
- Diagnostic modalities
- Risk stratification
- Special populations
- Treatment recommendations
- Summary
- Orthopedic Articular and Periarticular Joint Infections
- Key points
- Introduction
- Clinical presentation
- Arthrocentesis and synovial fluid analysis
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Diabetic Foot Infections in the Emergency Department
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology
- Pathophysiology and Natural History
- Microbiology
- Clinical Features
- Diagnostic Tests
- Treatment
- Clinics Care Points
- Tick-Borne Diseases
- Key points
- Lyme disease
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis
- Babesiosis
- Tularemia
- Clinics care points
- Fever and Rash
- Key points
- Introduction
- Definitions, morphology, and pathophysiology
- Initial evaluation
- Differential diagnosis
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Dengue, Zika, and chikungunya
- Dengue
- Zika
- Chikungunya
- Staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome
- Meningococcemia
- Clinics care points
- Sexually Transmitted Infections in the Emergency Department
- Key points
- Introduction
- Clinical presentation and diagnosis
- Newer sexually transmitted infection diagnostic strategies
- Newer approaches to sexually transmitted infection treatment
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Communicable Disease Screening and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Prevention in the Emergency Department
- Key points
- Introduction
- Essential elements of successful emergency department communicable disease screening
- Linkage to care for infections identified through screening
- Human immunodeficiency virus prevention and pre-exposure prophylaxis services in the emergency department
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- The Intersection of Substance Use Disorders and Infectious Diseases in the Emergency Department
- Key points
- Introduction
- Substance use disorder treatment in the emergency department: a new paradigm
- Opioid use disorder
- Methamphetamine and cocaine use disorders
- Injection drug use
- Alcohol use disorder
- New paradigms: emergency department substance use navigators and low-threshold clinics
- Harm reduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Coronavirus Disease 2019: Past, Present, and Future
- Key points
- Introduction, pathophysiology, and epidemiology
- Diagnosis
- Treatment and prevention
- Considerations for future surges
- Clinics care points
- Optimizing Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Emergency Department
- Key points
- Introduction to antimicrobial stewardship
- Key role of the emergency department in antimicrobial stewardship
- Barriers to antimicrobial stewardship in the emergency department
- Role of emergency providers in antimicrobial stewardship
- Role of infectious disease physicians in emergency department antibiotic stewardship
- Emergency department pharmacists and bedside antibiotic stewardship
- Infectious disease pharmacists and emergency department antibiotic stewardship programs
- Clinical decision support systems to improve emergency department stewardship
- Diagnostic stewardship through advances in infectious disease diagnostics
- Summary
- Managing Antimicrobial Resistance in the Emergency Department
- Key points
- Introduction to antimicrobial resistance
- The scope of the problem
- Antimicrobial resistance mechanisms and antibiotic selection
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 42-2
- Published: April 22, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443130458
- eBook ISBN: 9780443130465
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Christopher M. Colbert
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Residency Director, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Emergency Medicine, ACOEP Chair of Continuing, Medical EducationBF
Bradley W Frazee
Affiliations and expertise
Dept of Emergency Medicine, Highland Hospital | Alameda Health System, Oakland, California, Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine | UCSFMP
Michael Pulia
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Emergency Care for Infectious Diseases (EC-ID) Research Program Director, Emergency Medicine Antimicrobial Stewardship Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Affiliate Faculty, Industrial and Systems Engineering BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health