Main description:

Surgical Infections provides a comprehensive, practical and timely review of latest best practice in the prevention and management of infection in the surgical patient.

This highly illustrated text covers the full range of infections that pose such a challenge in the care of patients undergoing a surgical procedure. From community-acquired infections to nosocomial infections at anatomic sites remote from the operation, the book provides authoritative guidance on how to identify and manage infectious complications in surgical care.

The book opens with a summary of relevant basic science before discussing infections by body region, by system and by pathogen. Each highly focussed chapter is written by a leader in the field and covers relevant pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

Provides a definitive 'go to' reference for trainees and practicing surgeons, as well as internists and infectious disease physicians
Covers essential basic science and the latest diagnostic and management techniques
Arranged by anatomic site, body system, and causative agent as appropriate, with chapters devoted to particularly complex issues such as surgical site and hospital-acquired infections

Contents:

Introduction

1 Microbiology of surgical pathogens

2 Antimicrobial agents

3 Surgical immunology

4 Surgical site infection

5 Skin, skin structure, and soft tissue infections

6 Intra-abdominal infection

7 Perirectal abscesses and pilonidal abscess

8 Hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia

9 Postoperative urinary tract infection

10 Catheter-related bloodstream infections

11 Clostridium difficile infection

12 Burn wound infection

13 Fungal infections of surgical significance

14 Viral infections of surgical significance

15 Cardiothoracic surgical infections

16 Head-neck infections

17 Vascular surgical site infection

18 Urologic infections

19 Bone and joint infections

20 Obstetric and gynecologic infections

21 Necrotizing enterocolitis

22 Postoperative infections of the central nervous system

23 Bioterrorism

24 Microbial translocation, gut origin sepsis, probiotics, prebiotics, selective gut decontamination

25 Sepsis: systemic inflammation and organ dysfunction