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The field of healthcare epidemiology and infection control has seen tremendous advances in the last decade. Bennett & Brachman's Hospital Infections, 6e, now in vibrant full color, provides the most up-to-date information on all aspects of this vital topic. Written by the world's foremost leaders in the field of nosocomial infections, this is your go-to text for preventing Hospital-Acquired Infections (HAIs) in all inpatient and outpatient healthcare settings.
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Master the latest evidence-based strategies for the prevention of the big four HAIs-CLABSIs, CAUTIs, SSIs, and VAE.
Expand your knowledge of the latest prevention strategies through NEW coverage of automated room terminal disinfection (ultraviolet germicidal irradiation or hydrogen peroxide gas or vapor).
NEW chapters on surgical site infection, dialysis, prevention of HAIs in intensive care units, mechanisms of resistance, the role of the environment in pathogen transmission, the role of the laboratory in infection prevention, prevalence vs. incidence HAI surveillance, infection prevention and control in countries with limited resources, the latest isolation procedures, and sterilization and disinfection.
Access the latest evidence-based data on the control of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-resistant Enterococci, carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae, and pandemic influenza viruses.

Contents:

Section I General Considerations of Hospital Infections
1 Epidemiology of Healthcare-Associated Infections
Belinda Ostrowsky

2 The Healthcare Epidemiologist
Virginia R. Roth and Bryan P. Simmons

3 Hand Hygiene
Didier Pittet, Benedetta Allegranzi, and Andrew Stewardson

4 Occupational Health Services
David T. Kuhar, Elise M. Beltrami, and Elizabeth A. Bolyard

5 The Development of Infection Surveillance and Prevention Programs
Hilary M. Babcock and Keith F. Woeltje

6 Surveillance of Healthcare-Associated Infections
Mary Andrus and Teresa Horan

7 The Role of Prevalence Surveys for Detection of Healthcare-Associated Infections
Bruno P. Coignard

8 Investigating Endemic and Epidemic Healthcare-Associated Infections
William R. Jarvis

9 Epidemiologic Methods for Investigating Infections in the Healthcare Setting
Jennifer H. Han and Ebbing Lautenbach

10 Use of Computerized Systems in Healthcare Epidemiology
Keith F. Woeltje

11 The Role of the Laboratory in Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections
Michael A. Pfaller and Daniel J. Diekema

12 The Practice of Epidemiology in Community Hospitals
August Valenti

13 The Role of Professional, Governmental, and Regulatory Organizations in Infection Prevention and Control
Barbara M. Soule, Karen Hoffmann, and Tammy S. Lundstrom

14 Antimicrobial Stewardship: Programmatic Efforts to Optimize Antimicrobial Use
Robert Owens

15 Multidrug-Resistant Organisms: Epidemiology and Control
Michael Y. Lin, Robert A. Weinstein, and Mary K. Hayden

16 Molecular Biology of Resistance
Gopi Patel and Robert A. Bonomo

17 Economic Evaluation of Healthcare-Associated Infections and Infection-Control and Antimicrobial-Stewardship Interventions
Eli N. Perencevich and Sara E. Cosgrove

18 Epidemiology and Control of Healthcare-Acquired Infections in Limited Resource Settings
Victor D. Rosenthal

Section II Functional Areas of Concern
19 The Inanimate Environment
John Boyce

20 Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities
William A. Rutala and David J. Weber

21 Foodborne Disease Prevention in Healthcare Facilities
Syed A. Sattar and Susan Springthorpe

22 Clinical Laboratory---Acquired Infections
Michael L. Wilson and L. Barth Reller

23 Dialysis-Associated Complications and Their Control
Matthew Arduino and Priti Patel

24 The Intensive Care Unit, Part A. HAI Epidemiology, Risk Factors, Surveillance, Engineering and Administrative Infection Control Practices, and Impact
Didier Pittet, Caroline Landelle, and Stephan J. Harbarth

25 The Intensive Care Unit, Part B. Antiobiotic Resistance and Prevention of CVC-BSIs, Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections, and C. difficile
Nasia Safdar and Dennis G. Maki

26 The Newborn Nursery and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Thomas J. Sandora and Nalini Singh

27 Perioperative Suite
Joan Blanchard and Sharon Giarrizzo-Wilson

28 Ambulatory Care Settings
Candace Friedman and Kathy H. Petersen

29 Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities
Nimalie D. Stone and Chesley L. Richards, Jr.

Section III Endemic and Epidemic Hospital Infections

30 Incidence and Nature of Endemic and Epidemic Healthcare-Associated Infections
Lennox K. Archibald and William R. Jarvis

31 Urinary Tract Infections
Carol E. Chenoweth

32 Hospital-Acquired and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
Donald E. Craven, Philip E. Grgurich, Kathleen Steger Craven, and Henri Balaguera

33 Nosocomial Tuberculosis
Dick Menzies and Faiz Ahmad Khan

34 Infectious Gastroenteritis
L. Clifford McDonald and Benjamin A. Lopman

35 Central Nervous System Infections
Jeffrey Tessier

36 Surgical Site Infections
Teena Chopra, Deverick J. Anderson, and Keith S. Kaye

37 Infections of Burn Wounds
David Mozingo and Basil A. Pruitt, Jr.

38 Infections Due to Infusion Therapy
Dennis G. Maki and Leonard A. Mermel

39 Infections of Implantable Cardiac and Vascular Devices
Raymond Y. Chinn

40 Infections in Skeletal Prostheses and Allografts
Ilker Uckay, Leonardo Pagani, Axel Gamulin, and Daniel Lew

41 The Importance of Infection Control in Controlling Antimicrobial-Resistant Pathogens
Cassandra D. Salgado and Barry M. Farr

42 Healthcare-Associated Respiratory Viral Infections
Wing Hong Seto and Janice Lo

43 Preventing Transmission of Bloodborne Pathogens in the Healthcare Setting
David K. Henderson

44 Healthcare-Associated Fungal Infections
Rachel M. Smith, Scott K. Fridkin, and Benjamin J. Park

45 Healthcare-Associated Infections in Transplant Recipients
Mini Kambouj and Kent Sepkowitz

46 Miscellaneous Procedure-Related Infections
Sharon Welbel and Robert H. Weinstein

47 Public Reporting of Healthcare-Associated Infection Rates
Michael Edmond and Michael P. Stevens

48 Patient Safety
Moi-Lin Ling