Infectious Diseases in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Simon Nadel is on the advisory board of Intensive Care Medicine and is the Clinical Director of St Mary's Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, London, UK.

The Immunology of Neonates and Children and its Relation to Susceptibility to Infection.- Infections in the Critically Ill Neonate.- Fungal Infection in Critically Ill Children.- Toxin Mediated Diseases - Toxic Shock Syndrome.- Vaccines for the Prevention of Admission to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit.- Pathophysiology of Pediatric Sepsis.- The Epidemiology of Severe Infections in Children.- Novel Challenges in Infection in the PICU Setting.- Host Genetic Susceptibility to Infection.- Nosocomial Infections in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.- Infections in the Immunocompromised Patient in PICU.- Infants and Children with HIV.- Life-Threatening Tropical Infections.- Cardiac Infections in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.- Paediatric Critical Care: Acute Central Nervous System Infection.- Respiratory Infection in Pediatric Intensive Care.- New Therapies for Sepsis.