Nosocomial Pneumonia is a unique resource to cover in depth the management of the important issue of nosocomial pneumonia in respiratory medicine and critical care.

Nosocomial Pneumonia addresses the problems associated with particular risk groups, including:

• Immuno-Compromised
• Trauma Patients
• The Presence of Concomitant Morbidities such as Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

Contents

1. Health Care Associated-Pneumonia: Epidemiology, Microbiology and Clinical Outcomes
2. Prevention of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
3. Role of the microbiology laboratory in the diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia
4. Pathophysiology of Pneumonia
5. Clinical approach to the patient with HAP
6. Pneumonia due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa
7. Hospital acquired-pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus
8. Nosocomial pneumonia by Acinetobacter baumannii
9. Fungal pneumonia
10. General pharmacologic considerations and dose adjustment in antibiotic therapy for HAP
11. Minimally Invasive Diagnostic Strategy in Immunocompromized Patients with Pulmonary Infiltrates
12. Pneumonia in trauma patients
13. Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome and pneumonia
14. Assessment of patients with poor resolution of Hospital Acquired Pneumonia
15. Approach to Patients with recurrent VAP
16. Costs for Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia & Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

Index

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