Clinical Management of Bacterial Pneumonia

Torres, Antoni; Cillóniz, Catia

This concise, clinically focused handbook offers a complete overview of bacterial pneumonia and reviews the latest guidelines, treatment options, clinical trials, and management of this disease. The easily accessible text offers infectious disease specialists and other health care workers with an excellent quick reference tool, with full color tables and figures enhancing the text further. Pneumonia is a debilitating disease, and can also be a very serious complication of pre-existing lung conditions. Combined with influenza (a predisposing factor) it is the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, such there is a need for physicians to prevent pneumonia by vaccination and hygiene methods, as well as recognizing and treating early.

Details

Published by: Adis

Publication Date: 2015-10-27

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783319220611

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-22062-8

Dimensions: 201cm x127cm

Pages: 98