This second edition of ‘Infection control in the intensive care unit’ has been completely rewritten. All statements are justified, where possible, by randomised controlled trials or meta-analyses, avoiding unsubstantiated expert opinion. The book contains a new section dedicated to the microbiology for the critically ill, in particular, how to process and interpret surveillance cultures to distinguish the ‘normal’ from the ‘abnormal’ carrier state. The usefulness of molecular techniques for outbreak analysis is discussed in a new chapter. An extensive chapter dedicated to clinical virology in neonatal, paediatric and adult intensive care units is also new, as well as the explanation of the six basic principles of the therapy of an infection. Attention is given to special topics such as nutrition, gut mucosal protection and the control of antimicrobial resistance. The addition of enteral to parenteral antimicrobials contributes to the control of multi-resistant micro-organisms.
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The patient's carrier state is considered to be abnormal when the same enter-obacterial or pseudomonal strain is isolated from at least two consecutive surveillance samples (saliva, gastric fluid, faeces) in any concentration over a period of at least 1 week (in practice, the throat and/or rectal swabs taken twice weekly yield identical micro-organism). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primary endogenous infection, secondary endogenous infection, endogenous pathogenesis, digestive tract overgrowth, exogenous pathogenesis, reliable respiratory specimen, pathogenicity index, abnormal carriage, neonatal surgical unit, surveillance samples, tracheal site, gut carriage, impaired gut motility, previous carriage, secondary carriage, selective decontamination, rectal carriage, microbial translocation, abnormal carriers, carriage index, flora including anaerobes, lower airway infections, surveillance cultures, low level pathogens, gastrointestinal carriage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Infect Dis, Antimicrob Agents Chemother, Crit Care Med, Ann Intern Med, Antimicrob Chemother, Hosp Infect, Intensive Care Med, Clin Microbiol, New York, Infect Control, Arch Surg, Ann Surg, Arch Intern Med, Clin Pharmacol Ther, Immunol Today, Surg Gynaecol Obstet, Arch Dis Child, Biochim Biophys Acta, United States, Churchill Livingstone, Curr Opin Crit Care, Bailliere Tindall, Clin Invest, Infect Immun, Mayo Clin Proc New!
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The patient's carrier state is considered to be abnormal when the same enter-obacterial or pseudomonal strain is isolated from at least two consecutive surveillance samples (saliva, gastric fluid, faeces) in any concentration over a period of at least 1 week (in practice, the throat and/or rectal swabs taken twice weekly yield identical micro-organism). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
primary endogenous infection, secondary endogenous infection, endogenous pathogenesis, digestive tract overgrowth, exogenous pathogenesis, reliable respiratory specimen, pathogenicity index, abnormal carriage, neonatal surgical unit, surveillance samples, tracheal site, gut carriage, impaired gut motility, previous carriage, secondary carriage, selective decontamination, rectal carriage, microbial translocation, abnormal carriers, carriage index, flora including anaerobes, lower airway infections, surveillance cultures, low level pathogens, gastrointestinal carriage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Infect Dis, Antimicrob Agents Chemother, Crit Care Med, Ann Intern Med, Antimicrob Chemother, Hosp Infect, Intensive Care Med, Clin Microbiol, New York, Infect Control, Arch Surg, Ann Surg, Arch Intern Med, Clin Pharmacol Ther, Immunol Today, Surg Gynaecol Obstet, Arch Dis Child, Biochim Biophys Acta, United States, Churchill Livingstone, Curr Opin Crit Care, Bailliere Tindall, Clin Invest, Infect Immun, Mayo Clin Proc New!
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- Hospital Infections by John V. Bennett on page 15, and page 334
- INTENSIVE CARE (18 Pine Street) by Stacie Johnson on page 105 (1), and page 105 (2)
- Infection and the Anaesthetist by C.P. Stoutenbeer on page 8, and page 105
- Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles & Practice of Infectious Diseases (2 Vol. Set) by Gerald L. Mandell MD MACP on page 16, and page 101
- Roitt's Essential Immunology (Essentials) by Peter Delves on page 35
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