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Title Sepsis / Simon V. Baudouin, ed
Published London : Springer, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 103 pages) : color illustrations
Series Competency-based critical care
Competency-based critical care.
Contents Sepsis: introduction and epidemiology -- Mechanisms of innate immunity in sepsis -- Metabolic and endocrine changes in sepsis and the catabolic state -- Hematological and coagulation changes in sepsis -- The genetics of sepsis and inflammation -- Cardiac, circulatory, and microvascular changes in sepsis and multiorgan dysfunction syndrome -- Specific bacterial infections in the immunocompetent patient -- Infection in the immunocompromised patient -- Severe infections in the returning traveler -- Antibiotic prescribing including antibiotic resistance -- Infection control in the intensive care unit -- Randomized controlled trials in sepsis -- Guidelines, protocols and the surviving sepsis guidelines: a critical appraisal -- Practical approaches to the patient with severe sepsis: illustrative case histories
Summary Helps you discover effective strategies to prevent and treat sepsis. This book features leading medical experts who consider how the pathways implicated in early and late sepsis interact. It describes pharmacological approaches with an aim to enable you to provide sophisticated care for patients in both early and late sepsis
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Septicemia.
Sepsis
medicines (material)
MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Contagious.
Septicemia
Form Electronic book
Author Baudouin, Simon V.
LC no. 2007927933
ISBN 9781846289392
1846289394
9781846289385
1846289386