Nosocomial Pneumonia (eBook)

Dr. Jordi Rello, MD. Chief, Critical Care Department, Joan XXIII University Hospital, University Rovira i Virgili, Institut Pere Virgili, Tarragona, SPAIN.

Preface.

List of Contributors.

Abbreviations.

1. Health Care Associated-Pneumonia: Epidemiology, Microbiology
and Clinical Outcomes (Dr. Marcos I. Restrepo and Dr. Antonio
Anzuelo, San Antonio, Texas. US).

2. Prevention of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (Dr. Rafael Sierra
and Antonio Gordillo, Cádiz, Spain).

3. Role of the microbiology laboratory in the diagnosis of
ventilator-associated pneumonia (Dr. Emilio Bouza, Dra.
Almudena Burillo, Dra. Patricia Muñoz, Madrid,
Spain).

4. Pathophysiology of Pneumonia (Dra Amalia Alcón, Dr.
Mauricio Valencia, Dr. Antoni Torres, Barcelona, Spain).

5. Clinical approach to the patient with HAP (Dr. Jordi Rello,
Tarragona, Spain & Dr. Miguel Gallego, Sabadell, Spain).

6. Pneumonia due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Dr. Jordi
Vallés and Dra. Dolors Marisca, Sabadell. Spain).

7. Hospital acquired-pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus
(Dra. Despoina Koulenti, Athens, Greece; Dr. Kemal Agbaht,
Ankara, Turkey).

8. Nosocomial pneumonia by Acinetobacter baumannii (Dr.
José Garnacho-Montero and Da. Eugenia Pachón, Dr.
J.M. Cisneros, Sevilla, Spain).

9. Fungal pneumonia (Dr. George Dimopoulos, Dr. E.
Papadomichelakis, Dr. P. Kopteridis, Athens, Greece).

10. General pharmacologic considerations and dose adjustment in
antibiotic therapy for HAP (Dr. Pierluigi Viale and Dr. Federico
Pea, Udine, Italy).

11. Minimally Invasive Diagnostic Strategy in Immunocompromized
Patients with Pulmonary Infiltrates (Dra. Sandra. De Miranda and
Dra. Élie Azoulay, Paris, France).

12. Pneumonia in trauma patients (Dra. Helene A. Haeberle and
Dr. Wolfgang A. Krueger, Tubingen. Germany).

13. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and pneumonia (Dr. Jean
Chastre, Dr. Charles-Edouard Luyt, Dr. Jean Louis
Trouillet, Dr. Alain Combes, Paris, France).

14. Assessment of patients with poor resolution of Hospital
Acquired Pneumonia (Dr. Richard G. Wunderink, Dr. Keenan A.
Hawkins, Chicago, USA).

15. Approach to Patients with recurrent VAP (Dr. Grant W.
Waterer, Perth, Australia; Dr. Diego López. Madrid.
Spain).

16. Costs for Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia &
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (Dr. Andrew F. Shorr and Dr.
William L. Jackson, Washington, USA).

Index.

"Nosocomial Pneumonia achieves its stated goal of seeking to
present current knowledge on the pathophysiology, clinical
presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of nosocomial pneumonia.
Clinicians interested in this topic will find the text a useful and
worthwhile compilation." (Journal of the American Medical
Association, December 3, 2008)

"The main purpose of this book is to give physicians who
care for patients at risk for nosocomial pneumonia a concise and
up-to-date reference and management guide, and I would say the book
succeeds in that task. It is a concise, well-referenced
overview.... This is a useful text that compiles a substantial
body of information ... in a convenient source. The major
strengths of the book are the authoritative international list of
contributors and the clear focus." (Respiratory Care,
November 2008)

"The book is well-organized, well-written, easy to read and
understand and timely in its subject matter." (ADVANCE for
Respiratory Care Practitioners)

"This is a good overview of an important subject." (Doody's
Book Reviews)