Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Stewardship in Critical Care Medicine

Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Stewardship in Critical Care Medicine 4E is a fully updated and revised book that focuses on the clinical diagnostic approach to common infectious disease problems in the CCU. It emphasizes the importance of formulating an accurate early presumptive clinical syndromic diagnosis to select optimal initial antimicrobial therapy. The book includes chapters on differential diagnostic reasoning, fever patterns, rapid diagnostic tests, cardinal clinical findings, and critical diagnostic physical findings. It is written by infectious disease clinicians for CCU consultants and is a useful evidence-based and experience-tempered key clinical resource for infectious disease problems in the CCU.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 496 pages
Publication date: 13 June 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Critical Care Medicine

This new edition features chapters that explain the tenets of differential diagnostic reasoning, differential diagnostic characteristics of fever patterns in the CCU. The proper interpretation of rapid diagnostic tests, in the appropriate clinical context, is included. The diagnostic importance of cardinal clinical findings, particularly when combined, in the appropriate clinical context is emphasized and remains the basis for clinical problem solving in the CCU. Uniquely, critical diagnostic physical findings in the CCU, including color atlas of diagnostic eye findings, are included as important diagnostic determinants in the CCU.

Written by infectious disease clinicians for CCU consultants, Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Stewardship in Critical Care Medicine 4E remains a useful evidence-based and experience-tempered key clinical resource for infectious disease problems in the CCU.

Essentials of the tenets of clinical diagnostic reasoning is explained as it relates to formulating a rapid and accurate clinical syndromic diagnosis in the Critical Care Medicine.

Differential diagnostic characteristics of fever patterns in the CCU are explained.

The proper interpretation of rapid diagnostic tests, in the appropriate clinical context, is included.

The diagnostic importance of cardinal clinical findings, particularly when combined, in the appropriate clinical context is emphasized and remains the basis for clinical problem solving in the CCU.

Uniquely, critical diagnostic physical findings in the CCU, including color atlas of diagnostic eye findings, are included as important diagnostic determinants in the CCU.

Written by infectious disease clinicians for CCU consultants, Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Stewardship in Critical Care Medicine 4E remains a useful evidence-based and experience-tempered key clinical resource for infectious disease problems in the CCU.

Weight: 920g
Dimension: 280 x 210 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032336039
Edition number: 4 ed