Infectious diseases in the pediatric intensive care unit [electronic resource] / Simon Nadel (ed.)
Many children are admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with serious infections or with a high chance of acquiring nosocomial infection once admitted. Any infection can be serious in an immunocompromised patient, while any delay in therapy may produce more severe infection in an immunoc...
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Table of Contents:
- The Immunology of Neonates and Children and its Relation to Susceptibility to Infection
- Infections in the Critically Ill Neonate
- Fungal Infection in Critically Ill Children
- Toxin Mediated Diseases
- Toxic Shock Syndrome
- Vaccines for the Prevention of Admission to the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit
- Pathophysiology of Pediatric Sepsis
- The Epidemiology of Severe Infections in Children
- Novel Challenges in Infection in the PICU Setting
- Host Genetic Susceptibility to Infection
- Nosocomial Infections in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- Infections in the Immunocompromised Patient in PICU
- Infants and Children with HIV
- Life-Threatening Tropical Infections
- Cardiac Infections in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- Paediatric Critical Care: Acute Central Nervous System Infection
- Respiratory Infection in Pediatric Intensive Care
- New Therapies for Sepsis.