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| Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide |
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ISBN: 978-3030338022,
276 pages,
Hard Cover
ISBN-10: 3030338029 |
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| Copyright: |
2020 |
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| Edition: |
1st |
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| Editor: |
Hidalgo, Jorge, MD, MACP, MCCM, FCCP; Woc-Colburn, Laila, MD, DTM&H, FACP, FIDSA |
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Specialties:
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Critical Care
, Infectious Disease |
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| Publisher: |
Springer |
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| List Price: |
$139.99 |
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At A Glance
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of highly infectious diseases (HIDs) in the ICU. The text is designed to help critical care specialists and other healthcare practitioners prepare and plan for potential outbreaks of emerging or resurgent HIDs, lead a team in the ICU, perform emergency triage, and provide care for patients with a HID. The book also reviews some of the most prevalent highly infectious diseases, including influenza, SARS, plague, anthrax, and malaria.Written by experts in the field,Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care: A Comprehensive Clinical Guideis a valuable resource for critical care and infectious disease specialists who treat patients afflicted with a highly infectious disease in the ICU.
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Reviewer:
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David Dries,
MSE, MD
(Regions Hospital)
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Are the author's objectives met? |
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Is this written at an appropriate level? |
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Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) |
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Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? |
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If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? |
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Reviewer:
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David Dries,
MSE, MD
(Regions Hospital)
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Description
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| This extremely timely book in light of the current pandemic associated with COVID-19 coronavirus presents a multiauthor, concise overview of highly infectious diseases that may cause pandemics or other mass casualty problems in the critical care unit. |
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Purpose
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| The book presents the principles of mass casualty infectious disease practice to orient intensivists and others caring for victims of unusual and highly virulent pathogens. Among diseases the book discusses are influenza, SARS, plague, anthrax, and malaria. |
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Audience
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| Any medical providers encountering patients with highly infectious disease and administrators of facilities providing this care may find this work helpful. Contributors include an international group of experts from civilian and military practice. |
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Features
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| Initial presentations cover prevalent behaviors contributing to widespread infectious disease, the biology and sociology of antimicrobial resistance, and laboratory tools for making this important diagnosis. Multiple contemporary examples of highly virulent international pathogens are presented including influenza, measles, SARS, MERS, smallpox, anthrax, plague, and hemorrhagic fevers. Other better-known toxins covered include rabies, tetanus, malaria and multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. Later chapters describe the preparation of the critical care unit and healthcare teams for the management of patients with highly infectious disease. Chapters are concise and make adequate use of line drawings, photographs, tables, and other illustrations, which reproduce with good quality. Each topic is accompanied by a generous reference list from the primary literature with citations dating to within three years of this book's publication. The table of contents presents chapters with acknowledgement of authorship while a brief, concluding subject index provides adequate access to content. |
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Assessment
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| This timely book provides an introduction to concerns associated with multinational infection. Readers will need to move to the primary literature to complement these introductory comments. Editing for spelling and grammar could also make this work more user-friendly. |
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