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Offering an authoritative overview of all infection management protocols currently utilized by infectious disease specialists, geriatricians, and infection control practitioners, this Second Edition examines current strategies to diagnose, treat, control, and prevent common infectious diseases in long-term care geriatric facilities. Covering a wide range of infectious conditions, this source presents new chapters on conjunctivitis, otitis, sinusitis, HIV, SARS, and the West Nile Virus.

Completely updated with research from leading specialists in the field, this Second Editionsupplies a new appendix featuring studies on the initiation of antibiotics programs in long-term care facilities
Contains the most recent guidelines to evaluate fever and infection in residents of long-term care environments
Includes useful algorithms to evaluate and treat specific infections in long-term care facilities
Helps practitioners review common sites of infection, types of organisms that commonly cause disease, mechanisms impacting the spread and transfer of infection, and strategies to formulate policies and procedures for infection control in geriatric
Facilities
Presents methods to establish effective infection control programsclearly outlines techniques to combat drug-resistant organismsincludes essential data on emergency response to an outbreak

Demographics and Economics of LTC
Epidemiology and Special Aspects of Infectious Diseases in Aging
Evaluation of Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities Versus Acute Care Hospitals
Role of Functional Assement in Evaluating and Managing Infections in Long-term
Impaired Immunity and Increased Risk of Infections in Older Adults: Impact of Chronic Disease on Immunosenescence
Nutrition and Infection
Ethical Issues of Infectious Disease Interventions
Clinical Manifestations of Infections. Establishing an Infection Control Program in Long-Term Care Facilities
Epidemiologic Investigation of Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Long Term Care Facilities
An Approach to Antimicrobial Therapy. UrinaryTract Infection
Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. Pneumonia and Bronchitis
Tuberculosis
Infected Pressure Ulcers
Herpes Zoster, Cellulitis and Scabies
Infectious Diarrhea
Hepatitis in Long-term Care Facilities
Conjunctivitis, Otitis and Sinusitis
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in the Nursing Home
Vaccinations
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus
Vancomycin (Glycopeptide)- Resistant Enterococci in the Long-term Care Setting. Gram-Negative Bacteria
Fungal Infections
Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Definitions of Common Infections in Long-Term Care Facilities
Fever Guide to Evaluating and Infection in a Long-Term Care Setting
Minimum Criteria for Initiation of Antimicrobials in Long-Term Care Facilities

Thomas T. Yoshikawa, Charles R. Drew University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Joseph G. Ouslander, Emory University School of Medicine, The Birmingham/Atlanta

"… impeccably researched… an authoritative reference point on infection control in the elderly populous."

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