Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine

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7 Clinical Approach to Sepsis and Its Mimics in Critical Care Burke A. Cunha Infectious Disease Division, Winthrop-University Ho ...

pseudosepsis have temperatures 1028 F. The temperature relationships are critical when considered together with organ involveme ...

LABORATORY ABNORMALITIES IN SEPSIS The usual hemodynamic parameters associated with sepsis include decreased peripheral resistan ...

Table 3 Sepsis Vs. Mimics of Sepsis Parameters Disorders mimicking sepsis Sepsis (bacteremia from GI/pelvic GU, IV source) .Micr ...

SUMMARY The immediate task of the clinician is to determine whether the patient has sepsis or a mimic of sepsis. Diagnostic appr ...

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8 Meningitis and Its Mimics in Critical Care Burke A. Cunha Infectious Disease Division, Winthrop-University Hospital, Mineola, ...

CLINICAL APPROACH IN MENINGITIS Excluding open CNS trauma or neurosurgical procedures, bacteria causing acute meningitis reach t ...

NONINFECTIOUS MIMICS OF MENINGITIS Disorders that commonly may be mistaken for meningitis include drug-induced meningitis, menin ...

azithromycin may present as a drug-induced aseptic meningitis. Leukocytosis in the CSF with a polymorphonuclear predominance is ...

patients. Neuro-Behc ̧et’s disease is characterized by fever, headache, and meningeal signs that closely mimic a bacterial proce ...

Table 3 Mimics of Meningitis Meningeal mimics Differential features and diagnostic clues .Enteroviral meningitis Seasonal distri ...