Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine

Contents

Foreword Henry Masur ix

Preface to the First Edition x

Preface to the Second Edition xi

Preface to the Third Edition xii

Contributors xvii

PART I: DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH IN CRITICAL CARE

1. Clinical Approach to Fever in Critical Care 1
   Burke A. Cunha


2. Fever and Rash in Critical Care 19
   Lee S. Engel, Charles V. Sanders, and Fred A. Lopez


3. Physical Exam Clues to Infectious Diseases and Their Mimics in Critical Care 49
   Yehia Y. Mishriki


4. Ophthalmologic Clues to Infectious Diseases and Their Mimics in Critical Care 66
   Cheston B. Cunha, Michael J. Wilkinson, and David A. Quillen


5. Radiology of Infectious Diseases and Their Mimics in Critical Care 76
   Jocelyn A. Luongo, Orlando A. Ortiz, and Douglas S. Katz


6. Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus aureus/
   Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci Colonization
   and Infection in the Critical Care Unit 102
   C. Glen Mayhall

PART II: CLINICAL SYNDROMES IN CRITICAL CARE

7. Clinical Approach to Sepsis and Its Mimics in Critical Care 128
   Burke A. Cunha


8. Meningitis and Its Mimics in Critical Care 134
   Burke A. Cunha and Leon Smith


9. Encephalitis and Its Mimics in Critical Care 153
   John J. Halperin


10. Severe Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Critical Care 164
    Burke A. Cunha