This concise, clinically focused handbook offers a complete overview of bacterial pneumonia and reviews the latest guidelines, treatment options, clinical trials, and management of this disease. The easily accessible text offers infectious disease specialists and other health care workers with an excellent quick reference tool, with full color tables and figures enhancing the text further. Pneumonia is a debilitating disease, and can also be a very serious complication of pre-existing lung conditions. Combined with influenza (a predisposing factor) it is the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, such there is a need for physicians to prevent pneumonia by vaccination and hygiene methods, as well as recognizing and treating early.
A concise, practical handbook on bacterial pneumonia that provides infectious disease specialists and other health care workers with an up-to-date review of the background and advances in the field Reviews the current treatment guidelines and recommendations for management of pneumonia and discusses the emerging treatments responding to the rise in resistant strains Easily accessible text, tables and images reviews the key aspects of the field, giving readers a fast synopsis of the relevant information available Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Antoni Torres
Drug Resistance Infectious Diseases Microbiology Pneumonia Pulmonology
“This concise book provides an insightful framework for the approach to patients with bacterial pneumonia that is clinically relevant to providers with widely disparate backgrounds. … The progression of the book from a relatively basic overview to very specific therapeutic recommendations results in a work that is accessible to essentially any healthcare professional regardless of discipline or level of training. … evidence-based approach with heavy reliance on guideline-based recommendations should increase the appeal of the book to a diverse audience.” (Lee E. Morrow, Doody's Book Reviews, May, 2016)