Acute Respiratory Infections

Edited by Wei Shen Lim

Oxford Respiratory Medicine Library

Portable, accessible format for quick-reference
2-colour printing throughout
Helpful "Key Points" sections at the start of each chapter

Acute Respiratory Infections

Edited by Wei Shen Lim

Oxford Respiratory Medicine Library

Description

Respiratory tract infections (RTIs) are the most common acute medical problem encountered in primary care. Not only are RTIs very common, the spectrum of disease is wide. Clinical management differs according to the characteristics of the infected host and infecting pathogen. Despite these features, there are currently no pocketbooks that bring together clinically relevant information on this broad and important subject area in an accessible and practical manner.
This pocketbook offers a concise companion for health care professionals who manage patients with acute lung infections. The book covers aspects related to the diagnosis and initial management of these patients, with attention to specific infections which are notable for being difficult to manage, common or of particular clinical importance. The book will appeal to a wide variety of professionals in acute medicine, respiratory medicine, infectious diseases, primary care, and other internal medicine specialties.

Acute Respiratory Infections

Edited by Wei Shen Lim

Oxford Respiratory Medicine Library

1. Acute respiratory infections in primary care, Claire Blacklock and Matthew Thompson
2. Lung infections in secondary care - community acquired infections, Santiago Ewig
3. Lung infections in secondary care - hospital acquired pneumonia, John Simpson
4. The immunocompromised host, Morgan Evans and Pradhib Venkatesan
5. The immunocompromised host - patients with haemotological disorders, Jeremy M Brown and James S Brown
6. Pleural infection, Nick Maskell and Clare Hooper
7. Influenza and other respiratory virus infections, Jonathan S. Nguyen-Van-Tam
8. Pneumococcal disease and vaccines, Thomas Bewick and Wei Shen Lim
9. Legionnaire's Disease, John Macfarlane
10. Less common and tropical respiratory tract infections, Wei Shen Lim
11. Antibiotics in respiratory tract infections, Wei Shen Lim

Acute Respiratory Infections

Edited by Wei Shen Lim

Oxford Respiratory Medicine Library

Author Information

Wei Shen Lim is a respiratory physician who combines a busy clinical workload with a research interest in respiratory infections. He has been involved in the development of national guidelines in the area of respiratory infections including guidelines in relation to pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza, and was Chairman of the Guidelines Committee for the British Thoracic Society Guidelines for the Management of Community Acquired Pneumonia in Adults 2009. He is currently Chairman of the British Thoracic Society Respiratory Infection Specialist Advisory Group.

Contributors:

Thomas Bewick, Clinical Research Fellow, Nottingham University Hospitals, City Hospital, Nottingham, UK

Claire Blacklock, Academic Clinical Fellow and GP Registrar, Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford

Jeremy M Brown, Imperial College, London

James S Brown, Department of Thoracic Medicine, University College Hospital, London, UK

Morgan Evans, Department of Infectious Diseases, Nottingham University Hospitals City, Campus, Nottingham, UK

Santiago Ewig, Thoraxzentrum Ruhrgebiet - Kliniken für Pneumologie und Infektiologie, Herne und Bochum, Germany

Clare Hooper, Pleural Research Registrar, North Bristol Lung Centre, Southmead Hospital, Westbury on Trym, Bristol, UK

Wei Shen Lim, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Respiratory Medicine Department, Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, UK

John Macfarlane, Formerly Professor of Respiratory Medicine, University of Nottingham and Consultant Respiratory Physician, City Hospital Campus, Nottingham University Hospitals, Nottingham, UK

Nick Maskell, Consultant Respiratory Physician, Southmead Hospital, Bristol

John Simpson, University of Edinburgh/MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, Edinburgh, UK

Jonathan S. Nguyen-Van-Tam, Foundation Professor of Health Protection, University of Nottingham Medical School and Honorary Consultant Regional Epidemiologist (East Midlands), UK Health Protection Agency, Nottingham, UK

Matthew Thompson, Senior Clinical Scientist and GP, Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford

Pradhib Venkatesan, Department of Infectious Diseases, Nottingham University Hospitals City Campus, Nottingham, UK