Main description:

Antibiotic Essentials, updated annually, is a pocket guide on antimicrobial therapy and infectious diseases. Not simply a collection of guidelines, but a practical, concise and authoritative guide, written by expert clinicians for practising clinicians, presented in a user friendly format.  

Antibiotic Essentials has many special features including chapters on clinical microbiology (including susceptibility profiles, and site-pathogen clinical correlations) initial empiric therapy (with easy to use treatment grids, IV to PO switch options), HIV, fungal parasitic infections, antibiotic prophylaxis & immunisations, pediatric ID, pneumonia chest X-ray atlas, color Gram stain atlas, antibiotic pearls & pitfalls, and ID differential diagnosis. It includes both infectious and non-infectious disorders.

The book is edited by Burke A Cunha MD MACP Chief, Infectious Disease Division, Winthrop University Hospital, Mineola, New York, and Professor of Medicine, State University of New York School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, one of the world’s leading experts on antimicrobial therapy and infectious diseases.

Key points

• Written by world experts, the new edition of annual publication  “Antibiotics Essentials”


• Fully updated to provide latest therapeutic recommendations


• Antibiotic Essentials is a user friendly, practical, antibiotic pocket guide, written by experienced clinicians, for practising clinicians

Contents:

• Overview of Antimicrobial Therapy

• Empiric Therapy Based on Clinical Syndrome
  
  
  
  • CNS Infections
  
  
  • HEENT Infections
  
  
  • Lower Respiratory Tract Infections
  
  
  • Cardiovascular Infections
  
  
  • Gastrointestinal Tract Infections
  
  
  • Genitourinary Tract Infections
  
  
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  
  
  • Bone and Joint Infections
  
  
  • Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
  
  
  • Sepsis/Septic Shock
  
  
  • Febrile Neutropenia
  
  
  • Transplant Infections
  
  
  • Toxin - Mediated Infectious Diseases
  
  
  • Bioterrorist Agents
  
  
  
  

• Antibiotic Susceptibility Profiles and Initial Therapy Of Isolates Pending Susceptibility Results

• Parasites, Fungi, Unusual Organisms
  
  
  
  • Blood Pathogens
  
  
  • CSF/Brain Pathogens
  
  
  • Lung Pathogens
  
  
  • Heart Pathogens
  
  
  • Stool/Intestines Pathogens
  
  
  • Skin/Muscle Pathogens
  
  
  
  

• HIV Infection

• Prophylaxis and Immunizations

• Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Pediatric Drug Summaries

• Chest X-Ray Atlas

• Infectious Disease Differential Diagnosis

• Antibiotic Pearls & Pitfalls

• Antimicrobial Drug Summaries

• Appendix
  
  
  
  • Index
  
  
  • Color Atlas of CSF, SPUTUM, and Urine Gram Stains & Fungal Stains