Infectious Disease in Emergency Medicine

A Brandon/Hill Medical List first-purchase text, for emergency physicians and students, on common clinical infectious disease issues in the emergency room. Covers principles of infectious disease, diagnosis, and treatment.

Contributors

xi

(4)

Preface

xv

(2)

Acknowledgments

xvii

Part I: Principles of Infectious Disease

3

(126)

1. Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine Treatment of Infectious Disease

3

(16)

Peter Viccellio

Jack Fuhrer

2. Temperature Measurement and the Clinical Significance of Fever

19

(12)

Dan Tandberg

David P. Sklar

3. Laboratory Tests in the Diagnosis of Infectious Disease in the Emergency Department

31

(22)

Melvin P. Weinstein

James C. McLaughlin

4. Anti-Infective Therapy in the Emergency Department

53

(46)

Greg Weston

Marc Borenstein

5. Infection Control and Prophylaxis in the Emergency Department

99

(30)

Jonathan Jui

Part II: Clinical Syndromes and Differential Diagnosis

129

(320)

6. Sepsis and Septic Shock

129

(24)

Eric M. Koscove

7. Infection and Neurologic Disease

153

(18)

Russell D. Snyder

Judith C. Brillman

8. Fever and Rash

171

(22)

George L. Sternbach

9. Fever and Lymphadenopathy

193

(16)

Lourdes Irizarry

10. Vector-Borne and Animal-Associated Infections

209

(22)

Gary L. Simpson

11. Infection Following Wounds, Bites, and Burns

231

(30)

Daniel J. Dire

12. Infection in the Infant

261

(30)

Gary D. Overturf

L. Clark Hansbarger

13. Infection in the Elderly

291

(26)

Robert L. Rhyne

Richard J. Roche

14. Infection in the Immunocompromised Host

317

(22)

Jonathan S. Serody

Meera Kelley

Myron S. Cohen

15. Infection in the HIV-Positive Patient

339

(34)

Frederick T. Koster

16. Infection in the Substance Abuser (Alcohol and Parenteral Drug Abuse)

373

(28)

Sarah A. Stahmer

Suzanne Moore Shepherd

17. Infection in the Traveler and Immigrant

401

(36)

David Doezema

Mark Hauswald

18. Infection in the Patient with Alternative Living Circumstances

437

(12)

Knox H. Todd

Katherine L. Heilpern

David A. Talan

Part III: Infections by Organ System

449

(448)

19. Upper Respiratory Tract Infections

449

(30)

Robert D. Herr

Steven M. Joyce

20. Respiratory Airway Infections

479

(16)

Robert E. Sapien

21. Pleuropulmonary Infections

495

(26)

Peter P. McKellar

22. Cardiovascular Infections and Mediastinitis

521

(22)

George L. Sternbach

Michael J. Bresler

23. Diarrheal Disease and Gastroenteritis

543

(18)

Larry J. Goodman

John Segreti

24. Hepatitis and Hepatic Abscess

561

(16)

Harold A. Kessler

John C. Pottage, Jr.

25. Intra-Abdominal Infections and Perirectal Abscess

577

(24)

Donald E. Fry

26. Infections of the Urinary Tract and Male Genitalia

601

(30)

Raquel L. Gibly

27. Gynecologic and Obstetric Infections

631

(36)

Cathy L. Drake

28. Sexually Transmitted Diseases

667

(36)

Josephine M. Williams

Judith C. Brillman

29. Nervous System Infections

703

(52)

William P. Reed

David Reed Johnson

Larry E. Davis

30. Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections

755

(36)

J. Stephan Stapczynski

31. Diabetic Foot and Osteoarticular Infections

791

(32)

Ronald W. Quenzer

32. Ear and Sinus Infections

823

(20)

Fred S. Herzon

Barbara Small

33. Ocular Infections

843

(16)

Denise Farnath

34. Mouth and Salivary Gland Infections

859

(18)

Fred S. Herzon

35. Acute Undifferentiated Multisystem Infections

877

(20)

Ronald W. Quenzer

Gary L. Simpson

Index

897

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