Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care A Comprehensive Clinical
This book provides a comprehensive overview of highly infectious diseases (HIDs) in the ICU. The text is designed to help critical care specialists and other healthcare practitioners prepare and plan for potential outbreaks of emerging or resurgent HIDs,
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Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care
Jorge Hidalgo • Laila Woc-Colburn Editors
Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care A Comprehensive Clinical Guide
Editors Jorge Hidalgo, MD, MACP, MCCM, FCCP Division of Critical Care Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Belize City Belize
Laila Woc-Colburn, MD, DTM&H, FACP, FIDSA National School of Tropical Medicine Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX USA
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Preface
We are delighted to introduce the book on highly infectious diseases, providing the physician with a guide to both the approach to the patient and the treatment. Highly infectious disease (HID) is transmissible from person to person, carries a high rate of mortality, and represents a serious hazard in the healthcare setting and the community, which requires specific control measures. In the twenty-first century, due to our ability to move from one country to another, environmental factors, changes in lifestyle, and many other factors, we often have seen and experience the emergence of this disease, like SARS and more recently Ebola. With this book, we plan to present a description of the more common and highly infectious diseases to the healthcare practitioners, as well as to the institution, so they can prepare and plan for the potential outbreaks of emerging or resurgent HID. This book will help the critical care physician to define their role in defi
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