This issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Janet Foster, PhD, RN, CNS, will focus on Wound Care, with article topics including: Wound management; wound debridement; acute wounds; nutrition and wound healing; biology of acute wound failure; psychological stress and wound healing; chronic wound management in the elderly; and adjuncts to preparing wounds for closure: growth factors, skin substitutes, negative pressure therapy and hyperbaric oxygen.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 2 4. Forthcoming issues - p. 3 5. Preface - p. 4 6. Acinetobacter Infection in the ICU - p. 6 7. Antibiotic Therapy of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus in Critical Care - p. 13 8. Current Therapies for Pseudomonas Aeruginosa - p. 20 9. Treatment of Clostridium Difficile Colitis in the Critical Care Setting - p. 28 10. Empiric Therapy for Intravenous Central Line Infections and Nosocomially-Acquired Acute Bacterial Endocarditis - p. 35 11. Sepsis and Septic Shock: Selection of Empiric Antimicrobial Therapy - p. 45 12. Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics for Critical Care Clinicians - p. 53 13. The Use of Daptomycin for Staphylococcus Aureus Infections in Critical Care Medicine - p. 59 14. Tigecycline in Critical Care - p. 66 15. Colistin and Polymyxin B in Critical Care - p. 71 16. Vancomycin Revisited: A Reappraisal of Clinical Use - p. 79 17. Antibiotic Adverse Reactions and Drug Interactions - p. 91 18. Index - p. 102
This issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, Guest Edited by Janet Foster, PhD, RN, CNS, will focus on Wound Care, with article topics including: Wound management; wound debridement; acute wounds; nutrition and wound healing; biology of acute wound failure; psychological stress and wound healing; chronic wound management in the elderly; and adjuncts to preparing wounds for closure: growth factors, skin substitutes, negative pressure therapy and hyperbaric oxygen.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 2 4. Forthcoming issues - p. 3 5. Preface - p. 4 6. Acinetobacter Infection in the ICU - p. 6 7. Antibiotic Therapy of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus in Critical Care - p. 13 8. Current Therapies for Pseudomonas Aeruginosa - p. 20 9. Treatment of Clostridium Difficile Colitis in the Critical Care Setting - p. 28 10. Empiric Therapy for Intravenous Central Line Infections and Nosocomially-Acquired Acute Bacterial Endocarditis - p. 35 11. Sepsis and Septic Shock: Selection of Empiric Antimicrobial Therapy - p. 45 12. Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics for Critical Care Clinicians - p. 53 13. The Use of Daptomycin for Staphylococcus Aureus Infections in Critical Care Medicine - p. 59 14. Tigecycline in Critical Care - p. 66 15. Colistin and Polymyxin B in Critical Care - p. 71 16. Vancomycin Revisited: A Reappraisal of Clinical Use - p. 79 17. Antibiotic Adverse Reactions and Drug Interactions - p. 91 18. Index - p. 102
