Sepsis

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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.

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Title Statements

Full title :Sepsis / Simon V. Baudouin, ed.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Springer
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2008.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (viii, 103 pages) : : color illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781846289392, 1846289394, 9781846289385, 1846289386
DOI:10.1007/978-1-84628-939-2
oclc:ocn422621149
LC Classification:RC182.S4
Dewey Decimal:616.944

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.

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anatomy Dermatology HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases Health Promotion and Disease Prevention INFECTIOUS DISEASES MEDICAL -- Infectious Diseases Medicine -- Public Health Pneumology/Respiratory System Sepsis Septicemia Septicémie