Core concepts in clinical infectious diseases (CCCID)

Core Concepts in Clinical Infectious Diseases (CCID) provides medical students and researchers, infectious disease fellows, and practicing clinicians with key clinical concepts in the differential diagnosis and workup of infectious diseases. With the use of tables, charts, and problem-oriented medical diagnosis, it will provide a way of organizing and thinking about commonly seen clinical presentations of infectious diseases. Instead of discussing each disease process or any particular infectious process, this book will assist clinicians in seeing the forest and not focusing on the leaf. Graphs and tables have been constructed over 14 years of taking notes, teaching clinical infectious diseases, and discussing real clinical cases. This book is not about acquiring the structure of infectious diseases that is presented in classic textbooks of infectious disease; instead, it is about refining the process of putting the pieces together in clinical thinking to achieve an accurate clinical diagnosis and thus improved patient care.

Title page; Table of Contents; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Chapter 1: Sepsis; Abstract; Diagnostic approach to sepsis; Infection; Sepsis; Hospital acquired sepsis; Community acquired sepsis; Chapter 2: Bloodstream Infections; Abstract; Diagnostic approach to bloodstream infections; Bacteremia; Endovascular infections; Fungemia; Catheter-associated bloodstream infections; Chapter 3: Central Nervous System Syndromes; Abstract; Diagnostic approach and differential diagnosis of major neurologic syndromes; Major infectious diseases affecting the spinal cord, nerve roots, and peripheral nerves.

Chapter 4: Ocular InfectionsAbstract; Diagnostic approach to ocular infections; Chapter 5: Upper Airway Infections; Abstract; Diagnostic approach to upper respiratory infections; Chapter 6: Lower Airway Infections; Abstract; Diagnostic approach to lower respiratory infections; Chapter 7: Neck and Thoracic Infections; Abstract; Diagnostic approach to thoracic and neck infections; Chapter 8: Abdominal/Pelvic Infections; Abstract; Diagnostic approach to abdominal and pelvic infections; Chapter 9: Genitourinary Infections; Abstract.

Diagnostic approach to genitourinary infections and inflammato…