Respiratory Infections / Edition 1

by Sanjay Sethi

Overview

Utilizing a syndrome-based approach, Respiratory Infections provides pulmonologists, infectious disease specialists, and immunologists with essential and thorough knowledge of respiratory infections and the multitude of diseases that make us these infections, including pneumonia, tuberculosis, HIV, and cystic fibrosis. The only source to bridge the gap between respiratory infections and infectious disease, this text advises the clinician on how to easily and rapidly identify, treat, and manage respiratory infections. 

Key features of this integral resource include:

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138114890
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/07/2017
Series:	Lung Biology in Health and Disease , #232
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

The Scope of Respiratory Tract Infections. Host Defense Against Infection in the Airways. Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogenesis in Respiratory Tract Infection. Acute Bronchitis. Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Bronchiectasis. Exacerbations of Cystic Fibrosis. Community-Acquired Pneumonia. Health Care–Associated Pneumonia. Managing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia: Antibiotic Therapy and Targeted Prevention. Pneumonia in ARDS. Pulmonary Infections in Immunosuppressed Patients. Respiratory Infections in HIV-Positive Patients. Tuberculosis. Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Respiratory Infections. Fungal Infections. Emerging Infections: Influenza, Avian Influenza, and Pandemic Influenza. Emerging Modalities for Diagnosis (Including Biomarkers). New Management Modalities.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Joel C Seidman, MD (William Beaumont Hospitals)
Description: This is a comprehensive and up-to-date treatise, although brief, on newer bronchopulmonary infections or presentations of infections, aspects of emerging antimicrobial resistance, emerging understanding of host defense factors, and newer diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.
Purpose: Collecting the observations of authorities of diverse experience, the book provides a comprehensive review of the current state-of-the-art understanding of bronchopulmonary infections. However, except for the last two chapters on emerging modalities for diagnosis and new management modalities, there appears to be little new and not already available in an aggregate of separate references or in several similar (and more comprehensive) books published over the last 2 to 3 years.
Audience: The audience includes pulmonologists, intensivists, and infectious disease specialists. Although nurses, respiratory therapists, and rehabilitators would undoubtedly find the book informative, it is too focused outside of their realm of interest. The over two dozen contributors, primarily from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe, are of international renown.
Features: The book focuses on the broad subject of bronchopulmonary infections, stressing established or emerging areas of controversy or points where previous practices have been modified or augmented. Illustrations and graphics are limited, but sufficient. The bibliographies at each chapter end are extensive and relevant.
Assessment: The book achieves its likely intended goals well. For an average practitioner, it is interesting, but not essential.

Doody's Review Service

Reviewer: Joel C Seidman, MD (William Beaumont Hospitals)
Description: This is a comprehensive and up-to-date treatise, although brief, on newer bronchopulmonary infections or presentations of infections, aspects of emerging antimicrobial resistance, emerging understanding of host defense factors, and newer diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.
Purpose: Collecting the observations of authorities of diverse experience, the book provides a comprehensive review of the current state-of-the-art understanding of bronchopulmonary infections. However, except for the last two chapters on emerging modalities for diagnosis and new management modalities, there appears to be little new and not already available in an aggregate of separate references or in several similar (and more comprehensive) books published over the last 2 to 3 years.
Audience: The audience includes pulmonologists, intensivists, and infectious disease specialists. Although nurses, respiratory therapists, and rehabilitators would undoubtedly find the book informative, it is too focused outside of their realm of interest. The over two dozen contributors, primarily from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe, are of international renown.
Features: The book focuses on the broad subject of bronchopulmonary infections, stressing established or emerging areas of controversy or points where previous practices have been modified or augmented. Illustrations and graphics are limited, but sufficient. The bibliographies at each chapter end are extensive and relevant.
Assessment: The book achieves its likely intended goals well. For an average practitioner, it is interesting, but not essential.

Doody Reviews