Sepsis - Simon V Baudouin

Discover new, effective strategies to prevent and treat sepsis. In this book, leading medical experts consider how the pathways implicated in early and late sepsis interact. Next, the book describes numerous pharmacological approaches that enable you to provide state-of-the-technology care for patients in both early and late sepsis. You'll also get detailed discussions of how the various physiological systems function under sepsis.

From the reviews:

"This brief, multiauthored monograph reviews the recent thinking on a variety of infectious disease issues. … Practitioners seeking an update on infectious diseases as related to critical illness are an appropriate audience for this work which comes from a variety of contributors in the United Kingdom. … Tables and multicolored type allow ready identification of key content. Photographs are used occasionally and reproduce well. Line drawings are used effectively. … The book covers a wide ranging set of topics." (David J. Dries, Doody's Review Service, March, 2008)