Critical Care Infectious Diseases Textbook

Section 1: General Aspects.- 1. Opportunistic Infections: An Overview.- 2. Pathogenesis and Differential Diagnosis of Fever and Approach to the Febrile Patient in the Intensive Care Unit.- 3. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Infection.- 4. Fungal Infections.- 5. Infections in Critically I11 Solid Organ Transplant Recipients.- 6. Infections in the Neurosurgical Patient.- 7. Cardiovascular Monitoring of the Septic Patient.- 8. Role of Invasive Devices in the Pathogenesis of Nosocomial Pneumonia.- 9. AIDS in the Intensive Care Unit.- Section 2: Use of Anti-Infective Therapy in Critically III Patients.- 10. Antifungal Therapy in the ICU.- 11. Immunomodulation in Sepsis.- 12. Using Information Systems Technology to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing.- 13. Use of Antibiotics in Pregnant Patients in the ICU.- 14. Pharmacokinetics of Antibiotics in Seriously Infectious Patients.- 15. Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in the Intensive Care Unit.- 16. Prescription of Antimicrobial Agents in Patients Undergoing Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy.- Section 3: Infection Control/Epidemiology.- 17. Fundamentals of Infection Control and Surveillance Strategies for the ICU.- 18. Isolation and Handwashing.- 19. Sterilization and Disinfection in the ICU.- 20. Antibiotic Resistance in the ICU.- 21. Epidemic Infections in the ICU: Multiresistant Microorganisms.- 22. Challenges in Outbreak Investigations in Intensive Care Units.- Section 4: Infectious Diseases Emergencies.- 23. Septic Shock.- 24. Acute Bacterial Meningitis.- 25. Acute Infective Endocarditis.- 26. Falciparum Malaria.- 27. Toxic Shock Syndromes.- 28. Meningococcemia.- 29. Brain Abscess.- 30. Encephalitis.- Section 5: Bloodstream Infections.- 31. Nosocomial Bloodstream Infection in the ICU.- 32. Hemodialysis Catheter-Related Infections.- 33. Infection of Pulmonary Arterial Catheter and Peripheral Arterial Catheter.- 34. Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections in Total Parenteral Nutrition.- 35. Prevention of Catheter-Related Infections.- Section 6: Respiratory Infections.- 36. Tracheobronchitis in the ICU.- 37. Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia.- 38. Severe Legionellosis.- 39. Adjunctive and Supportive Measures for Community-Acquired Pneumonia.- 40. Therapy of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia in the Intensive Care Unit.- 41. Respiratory Infection in Immunocompromised Neutropenic Patients.- 42. Respiratory Infections in Immunocompromised Non-Neutropenic Patients.- 43. Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia.- Section 7: Infections of the Digestive, Urinary Tract and Pelvis.- 44. Antibiotic Induced Diarrhea.- 45. Urinary Tract Infections.- 46. Pancreatic Infection.- 47. Biliary Tract Infections.- 48. Sepsis in Obstetrics.- 49. Peritonitis.- Section 8: Infections with Surgical Implications.- 50. Surgical Site Infection Control in the Critical Care Environment.- 51. Severe Soft Tissue Infections: A Syndrome-Based Approach.- 52. Infections in Burn Patients.- 53. Infectious Diseases in Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis.- 54. Vascular Graft Infections.- 55. Acute Mediastinitis.