Emergency Management of Infectious Disease


The diagnosis and management of infectious disease is a key component of contemporary emergency medicine, ranging from the definitive treatment and discharge of a patient with a simple abscess, to the recognition of a rare infection in a traveler, and to the resuscitation and stabilization of a patient with septic shock. The changing epidemiology of infectious diseases presents a considerable challenge. Acute care practitioners are sentinels for emerging outbreaks and must rapidly synthesize history and exam findings with laboratory studies, imaging results, and epidemiology. Time-dependent morbidity requires practitioners to balance a high degree of suspicion for deadly diagnoses with the precision needed for high-yield diagnostic testing and appropriate care. This book provides a practical, clinically oriented, systems based overview of infectious disease with an emphasis on emergent diagnosis and treatment. It offers broad coverage of viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic diseases in a narrative supplemented by explanatory photos, diagnostic tables, and treatment charts. It should prove an invaluable reference for practitioners confronting the spectrum of infectious disease in the acute care setting. 

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