Sepsis (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Baudouin, Simon V.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The patient with sepsis provides a major challenge to the hospital acute team and septic shock is the commonest cause of admission to General Critical Care Units in the industrialized world. The incidence of sepsis is also increasing, in part due to the more complex patient case mix which is a feature of modern hospital practice. Sepsis is a multi-factorial disease process and this volume provides comprehensive and in-depth reviews of both the basic science and more practical aspects of patient management. Coverage includes detailed information on the epidemiology and genetics of sepsis as well as the metabolic and cardiovascular responses to infection.

The book also reviews infectious disease in relation to sepsis, haematological aspects of sepsis, as well as the currently controversial areas of clinical trial design in sepsis and protocol-driven care. In addition, a specific chapter, with illustrated cases, draws practical lessons and offers useful management tips.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer London
• Seitenzahl: 103
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846289392
• Artikelnr.: 37347662

Inhaltsangabe

Sepsis: Introduction and epidemiology.- Mechanisms of Innate immunity in sepsis.- Metabolic and endocrine changes in sepsis and the catabolic state.- Haematological and coagulation changes in sepsis.- The genetics of sepsis and inflammation.- Cardiac, circulatory and microvascular changes in sepsis.- Specific bacterial infections in the immunocompetant patient-Infection in the immunocompramised patient.- Severe infection in the returning traveller.- Antibiotic prescribing including antibiotic resistance-Infection control in the ITU.- Randomised controlled trials in sepsis.- Guidelines, protocols and the surviving sepsis guidelines.- Practical approaches to the patient with sepsis: illustrative cases histories.

Rezensionen

From the reviews:

"This brief, multiauthored monograph reviews the recent thinking on a variety of infectious disease issues. ... Practitioners seeking an update on infectious diseases as related to critical illness are an appropriate audience for this work which comes from a variety of contributors in the United Kingdom. ... Tables and multicolored type allow ready identification of key content. Photographs are used occasionally and reproduce well. Line drawings are used effectively. ... The book covers a wide ranging set of topics." (David J. Dries, Doody's Review Service, March, 2008)