Infectious Disease Clinical Review: Rapid-Access Clinical Protocols for Antimicrobial Selection, Dosing, and Infection Control - Couverture souple

Sommers, Archer J.; Langley, Violet M.; Halegrave, Tristan K.; Whitmore, Nora S.; Fenner, Caleb D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798185447710

Editeur : Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

In infectious disease care, speed matters—but precision matters just as much.

Starting treatment too late can allow serious infection to progress. Starting the wrong drug, dose, or duration can expose patients to toxicity, resistance, and avoidable treatment failure. The real clinical skill is knowing how to act early while continuing to reassess the evidence.

Infectious Disease Clinical Review is a rapid-access clinical guide for physicians, residents, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, and healthcare trainees who need a more structured approach to antimicrobial decisions and infection management.

This book is built for the moments when you need a clear plan: assess severity, identify the likely source, choose appropriate empiric therapy, obtain meaningful microbiology data, adjust dosing safely, and refine treatment as the clinical picture becomes clearer.

What You’ll Find Inside

• Practical protocols for common infectious syndromes and urgent clinical presentations
• Antimicrobial selection based on likely pathogens, infection source, severity, host factors, and resistance risk
• Dosing guidance that considers renal function, hepatic impairment, body size, toxicity risk, drug interactions, and therapeutic monitoring
• Culture, susceptibility, and rapid-test interpretation for targeted treatment decisions
• Clear approaches to broadening, narrowing, stopping, or converting therapy when appropriate
• Sepsis recognition, source control, device-related infection risks, isolation principles, and infection-prevention priorities
• Clinical review tools designed to support faster recall during rounds, admissions, consultations, and stewardship review

Why This Guide Stands Out

This is not a book built around endless lists of organisms or drug names.

It is built around the decisions that change outcomes: what to start, what to test, what to monitor, what to reconsider, and when to step back from unnecessary antimicrobial exposure.

The goal is practical judgment. A positive culture does not always mean invasive infection. Broad therapy may be necessary at the beginning but inappropriate later. A standard dose may not be safe for every patient. Good antimicrobial care depends on reassessment, not autopilot prescribing.

Built for Real Clinical Practice

Infectious Disease Clinical Review helps you approach infection management with greater structure, clearer reasoning, and stronger stewardship habits.

Whether you are preparing for clinical rotations, entering residency, supporting inpatient care, working in pharmacy, or strengthening everyday prescribing decisions, this guide provides a focused reference for safer antimicrobial use and more confident infection control practice.

Clinical protocols should always be applied alongside local resistance data, institutional guidance, and patient-specific clinical judgment.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798185447710
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 250
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