Overview
Describes cutting-edge areas in the field of sepsis
Reviewing novel targets to consider in patients with severe sepsis
Written by outstanding experts
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Sepsis is an important public health problem around the world. Severe sepsis carries significant morbidity, mortality and high costs. The incidence of sepsis is increasing because of the aging population, the growing number of immunocompromised hosts, the increasing use of invasive procedures, and, to a lesser extent, antibiotic resistance among pathogens. Despite recent advances in the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and therapeutic approaches the mortality rate associated with this condition remains high. Therefore, the goal of Sepsis: New Strategies is to review novel targets to be considered in patients with severe sepsis and to assess new developments for patients with sepsis originating in the respiratory tract.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This brief monograph reviews immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory strategies under investigation as adjuncts in management of sepsis and pneumonia. … Practitioners with an academic interest in sepsis are an appropriate audience for this work … . Chapters are clearly written and tables and line drawings have good pedagogic quality." (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Services, January, 2009)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sepsis
Book Subtitle: New Strategies for Management
Editors: Jordi Rello, Marcos I. Restrepo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79001-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-79000-6Published: 03 July 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09782-9Published: 19 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-79001-3Published: 26 June 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 142
Topics: Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases