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Nosocomial Pneumonia
Nosocomial pneumonia: Strategies for Management Edited by Jordi Rello
© 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ISBN: 978-0-470-05955-5
Nosocomial
Pneumonia
Strategies for Management
Edited by
Jordi Rello
Critical Care Department, Joan XXIII University Hospital,
University Rovira i Virgili. CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias,
Tarragona, Spain
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Nosocomial pneumonia : strategies for management / edited by Jordi Rello.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-470-05955-5 (alk. paper)
1. Pneumonia. 2. Nosocomial infections. I. Rello, Jordi.
[DNLM: 1. Pneumonia—therapy. 2. Cross Infection—prevention & control. 3. Cross
Infection—therapy. 4. Pneumonia—prevention & control. 5. Respiration, Artificial—adverse
effects. WC 202 N8975 2007]
RC771.N672 2007
616.2′41—dc22
2007014616
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ISBN 978-0-470-05955-5
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Contents
Preface vii
List of Contributors ix
Abbreviations xiii
1 Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia: Epidemiology, Microbiology
and Clinical Outcomes 1
Marcos I Restrepo and Antonio Anzueto
2 Prevention of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia 11
Rafael Sierra and Antonio Gordillo
3 Role of the Microbiology Laboratory in the Diagnosis of
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia 43
Emilio Bouza, Almudena Burillo and Patricia Muñoz
4 Pathophysiology of Pneumonia 63
Amalia Alcón, Mauricio Valencia, Neus Fàbregas and Antoni Torres
5 Clinical Approach to the Patient with Hospital-Acquired
Pneumonia 79
Miguel Gallego and Jordi Rello
6 Pneumonia Due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa 93
Jordi Vallés and Dolors Mariscal
7 Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Caused by Staphylococcus aureus 107
Despoina Koulenti and Kemal Agbaht
8 Nosocomial Pneumonia by Acinetobacter baumannii 131
José Garnacho-Montero, Ma Eugenia
Pachón-Ibáñez and José M. Cisneros-Herreros
9 Fungal Pneumonia 145
George Dimopoulos, Evangelos Papadomichelakis and
Petros Kopterides
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