Antibiotic Essentials 2017

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JP Medical Ltd, May 31, 2017 - Medical - 760 pages
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The new edition of this highly successful annual pocket guide presents clinicians with the most recent information in the field of antimicrobial therapy and infectious diseases.

Written by recognised experts in infectious disease, this edition discusses serum and urinary spectrum summaries of antibiotics and clinically relevant pharmacokinetics. Completely new sections on Antibiotic Stewardship, IV-to-PO Switch Therapy, and differentiation of colonisation and infection, are also included.

Unique features of this book include clinical synopses of common and uncommon infections worldwide, differential diagnosis of infectious diseases and non-infectious mimics, antibiotic IV-to-PO switch therapy options for infectious diseases; and HIV, HCV, Peds ID, antibiotic prophylaxis and immunisations, chest film differential diagnosis atlas, and gram stain atlas.

Key Points

  • Fifteenth edition presenting most recent information in field of antimicrobial therapy and infectious disease
  • Highly successful annual pocket guide
  • Includes many new topics
  • Authored by leading experts in the field
  • Includes free access to the app
 

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Contents

Ch02
17
Ch03
195
Ch04
263
Ch05
319
Ch06
373
Ch07
405
Ch08
445
Ch09
493
Ch10
527
Ch11
541
Appendix
779
Index
791
Copyright

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Antibiotic Essentials
Burke A. Cunha
Snippet view - 2005

Common terms and phrases

abscess activity or experience acute Additional Clinical Considerations adult uncomplicated lower aeruginosa Allergic Potential amphotericin Ampicillin antibiotics applicable to adult aureus Azithromycin based on peak black box warning Ceftriaxone chronic Clindamycin Clinical Presentation concentration after usual cont’d CrCl 30 mL/min CVVH/CVVHD CVVHDF dose Daptomycin Diagnostic Considerations diarrhea difficile disease Dosage Adjustments Doxycycline Drug Class Drug Interactions Ertapenem Excreted unchanged urine experience inadequate fever Gram hepatic influenza Itraconazole lesions Levofloxacin Linezolid lower UTIs CrCl meninges Meropenem mg/kg Minocycline Moxifloxacin MRSA MSSA Noninfectious oral patients peak serum concentration Peak serum level Pharmacokinetic Parameters Pitfalls Plasma protein binding pneumoniae Post–HD dose POTherapy Problem pathogens Prognosis prophylaxis quinolone renal Rifampin Safety in Pregnancy SELECTED REFERENCES serious side effect Serum half-life normal/ESRD spec syndrome Therapeutic Considerations Tigecycline tissue penetration inadequate treatment trum inadequate uncomplicated lower UTIs usual adult dose Usual Dose UTIs CrCl 30 Vancomycin Voriconazole WBCs weeks www.pdr.net

About the author (2017)

Cheston B Cunha MD
Director, Antibiotic Stewardship Program and Infectious Disease, Division of Infectious Disease, Rhode Island Hospital & Miriam Hospital, Rhode Island; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brown University Alpert Medical School, USA

Burke A Cunha MD MACP
Chief, Infectious Disease Division, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, New York; Professor of Medicine, State University of New York School of Medicine
Stony Brook, New York, USA

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TitleAntibiotic Essentials 2017
G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
AuthorsCheston B Cunha, Burke A Cunha
EditorsCheston B Cunha, Burke A Cunha
Editionrevised
PublisherJP Medical Ltd, 2017
ISBN9385999079, 9789385999079
Length760 pages
Subjects › 

Medical / Clinical Medicine
Medical / Diseases
Medical / Infectious Diseases
Medical / Internal Medicine
  
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