Screen LibraryClinical management of bacterial pneumonia /
This concise, clinically focused handbook offers a complete overview of bacterial pneumonia and reviews the latest guidelines, treatment options, clinical trials, and management of this disease. The easily accessible text offers infectious disease specialists and other health care workers with an ex...
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Springer International Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | Switzerland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
This concise, clinically focused handbook offers a complete overview of bacterial pneumonia and reviews the latest guidelines, treatment options, clinical trials, and management of this disease. The easily accessible text offers infectious disease specialists and other health care workers with an excellent quick reference tool, with full color tables and figures enhancing the text further. Pneumonia is a debilitating disease, and can also be a very serious complication of pre-existing lung conditions. Combined with influenza (a predisposing factor) it is the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, such there is a need for physicians to prevent pneumonia by vaccination and hygiene methods, as well as recognizing and treating early. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 98 pages : illustrations, forms ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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9783319220611 (paperback) : 3319220616 (paperback) |
| Index Number: | RC771 |
| CLC: | R563.105 |
| Call Number: | R563.105/T693 |
| Contents: | Author biographies; Abbreviations; Preface; 1 Introduction to pneumonia; Introduction; Overview of bacterial pneumonia; References; 2 Epidemiology, etiology, and risk factors of bacterial pneumonia; Epidemiology; Microbial etiology; Antibiotic resistance; Risk factors; Summary points; References; 3 Pathology and clinical features of pneumonia; Pathophysiology of pneumonia; Pathogenesis of pneumonia; Signs and symptoms of pneumonia; Prognosis of pneumonia; Summary points; References; 4 Diagnosis and classification of pneumonia |