Sepsis (Competency-Based Critical Care)

✍ Scribed by Simon Baudouin

• Publisher: Springer, London
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 112
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Discover new, effective strategies to prevent and treat sepsis. In this book, leading medical experts consider how the pathways implicated in early and late sepsis interact. Next, the book describes numerous pharmacological approaches that enable you to provide state-of-the-technology care for patients in both early and late sepsis. You’ll also get detailed discussions of how the various physiological systems function under sepsis.

✦ Table of Contents

Sepsis
......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
1 Sepsis: Introduction and Epidemiology......Page 10
2 Mechanisms of Innate Immunity in Sepsis......Page 14
3 Metabolic and Endocrine Changes in Sepsis and the Catabolic State......Page 20
4 Hematological and Coagulation Changesin Sepsis......Page 26
5 The Genetics of Sepsis and Inflammation......Page 35
6 Cardiac, Circulatory, and Microvascular Changes in Sepsis and Multiorgan Dysfunction Syndrome......Page 41
7 Specific Bacterial Infections in the Immunocompetent Patient......Page 49
8 Infection in the Immunocompromised Patient......Page 56
9 Severe Infections in the Returning Traveler......Page 65
10 Antibiotic Prescribing Including Antibiotic Resistance......Page 72
11 Infection Control in the Intensive Care Unit......Page 79
12 Randomized Controlled Trials in Sepsis......Page 87
13 Guidelines, Protocols, and the Surviving Sepsis Guidelines: A Critical Appraisal......Page 96
14 Practical Approaches to the Patient with Severe Sepsis: Illustrative Case Histories......Page 102
Index......Page 108