Table of Contents

General Aspects.- Approach to the Febrile Patient in the Intensive Care Unit.- Cardiovascular Monitoring in Severe Sepsis or Septic Shock.- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Infection.- Opportunistic Infections in the Intensive Care Unit: A Microbiologic Overview.- Infections in Critically Ill Solid Organ Transplant Recipients.- HIV in the Intensive Care Unit.- Fungal Infections.- Using Protocols To Improve the Outcomes of Critically Ill Patients with Infection: Focus on Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia and Severe Sepsis.- Microbial Surveillance in the Intensive Care Unit.- Use of Anti-infective Therapy in Critically III Patients.- Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in the Intensive Care Unit.- Antifungal Therapy in the Intensive Care Unit.- Dose Adjustment and Pharmacokinetics of Antibiotics in Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock.- Prescription of Antimicrobial Agents in Patients Undergoing Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy.- Methods for Implementing Antibiotic Control in the Intensive Care Unit.- Use of Antibiotics in Pregnant Patients in the Intensive Care Unit.- Immunomodulation in Sepsis.- Antibiotic Induced Diarrhea.- Infection Control/Epidemiology.- Fundamentals of Infection Control and Strategies for the Intensive Care Unit.- Antibiotic Resistance in the Intensive Care Unit.- Epidemiology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the Intensive Care Unit.- How To Control MRSA Spread in the Intensive Care Unit.- Epidemiology of Acinetobacter baumannii in the Intensive Care Unit.- Bloodstream Infections and Infection Disease Emergencies.- Brain Abscess.- Falciparum Malaria.- Toxic Shock Syndromes.- Acute Infective Endocarditis.- Influenza.- Bloodstream Infection in the Intensive Care Unit.- Bloodstream Infections in Patients with Total Parenteral Nutrition Catheters.- Hemodialysis Catheter-Related Infections.- Infection of Pulmonary Arterial and Peripheral Arterial Catheters.- Prevention of Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections in Critical Care Patients.- Meningococcemia.- Septic Shock.- Respiratory Infections.- Tracheobronchitis in the Intensive Care Unit.- Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia.- Legionnaires’ Disease.- Adjunctive and Supportive Measures for Community-Acquired Pneumonia.- Respiratory Infection in Immunocompromised Neutropenic Patients.- Pneumonia in Non-Neutropenic Immunocompromised Patients.- Community-Acquired Respiratory Complications in the Intensive Care Unit: Pneumonia and Acute Exacerbations of COPD.- Management of Hospital-Associated Pneumonia in the Intensive Care Unit.- Assessment of Resolution of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia.- Invasive Devices in the Pathogenesis of Nosocomial Pneumonia.- Infections with Surgical Implications.- Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome.- Sepsis in Obstetrics.- Diagnosis and Management of Intra-abdominal Sepsis.- Surgical Site Infection Control in the Critical Care Environment.- Severe Soft Tissue Infections: A Syndrome-Based Approach.- Vascular Graft Infections.- Acute Mediastinitis.- Pancreatic Infection.- Urinary Tract Infections.- Neurosurgical Infections in Intensive Care Unit Patients.- Biliary Tract Infections.