Infectious Diseases: A Clinical Short Course, 4th Edition

by Frederick S. Southwick

Overview

Master the principles of clinical infectious disease in 30 days or less!

A Doody's Core Titles for 2023!

Infectious Diseases: A Clinical Short Course, Fourth Edition provides busy physicians, students, nurse practitioners, and PAs with the kind of concise overview they need to understand, diagnose, and treat common infectious diseases safely and effectively.

Organized by system/region—as opposed to pathogens—to simulate the ways you encounter common pathogens and disorders in rounds or in practice, this new edition includes key updates and aligns content with information tested on the USMLE Step 2. By indicating the number of days you should spend on each chapter, the author has created a schedule for completion of each lesson. A wide array of tables summarizing the methods of clinical assessment, anti-infective agent doses, and drug toxicities—critical facts that do not require memorization, but need to be referred to when caring for patients—facilitate this condensed learning schedule.

• Key Points summarize the most important facts you need to know when managing each infection and facilitate board review
• Guiding Questions kick off each chapter
• An estimate of the potential severity of each disease provides insight into how quickly you should initiate treatment
• Case examples highlight real-world clinical application of the content
• Dozens of color plates depict major pathogens
• All chapters have been updated to reflect the most current treatment and diagnostic guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781260143669
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	05/11/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	800
File size:	33 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Fred Southwick, MD Chief Quality Officer and Professor of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine.

Table of Contents

Contributors ix

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xiii

1 Anti-infective Therapy Frederick S. Southwick, MD 1

2 Sepsis Frederick S. Southwick, MD 63

3 The Febrile Patient Frederick S. Southwick, MD 73

4 Pulmonary Infections Frederick S. Southwick, MD 89

5 Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Infections Frederick S. Southwick, MD 133

6 Central Nervous System Infections Frederick S. Southwick, MD 153

7 Cardiovascular Infections Frederick S. Southwick, MD 181

8 Gastrointestinal and Hepatobiliary Infections Frederick S. Southwick MD 203

9 Genitourinary Tract Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases Frederick S. Southwick, MD 247

10 Skin and Soft Tissue Infections P. Daniel Lew, MD Frederick S. Southwick, MD 271

11 Osteomyelitis, Prosthetic Joint Infections, Diabetic Foot Infections, and Septic Arthritis P. Daniel Lew, MD Frederick S. Southwick, MD 289

12 Parasitic Infections: A Global Challenge Frederick S. Southwick, MD 307

13 Emerging Bacterial Infections (Including Zoonotic Pathogens and Biological Weapons) Frederick S. Southwick, MD 341

14 Serious Viral illnesses in the Adult Patient Sankar Swaminathan, MD 383

15 Infections in the Immunocompromised Host Frederick S. Southwick, MD 409

16 HIV infection Bernard Hirschel, MD 421

Index 459