This book provides a comprehensive overview of highly infectious diseases (HIDs) in the ICU. The text is designed to help critical care specialists and other healthcare practitioners prepare and plan for potential outbreaks of emerging or resurgent HIDs, lead a team in the ICU, perform emergency triage, and provide care for patients with a HID. The book also reviews some of the most prevalent highly infectious diseases, including influenza, SARS, plague, anthrax, and malaria.

Written by experts in the field, Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide is a valuable resource for critical care and infectious disease specialists who treat patients afflicted with a highly infectious disease in the ICU. 

How Infectious Diseases Have Influenced our Culture

Evolution and Globalization of Antimicrobial Resistance
Emergency Triage of Highly Infectious Diseases and Bioterrorism
Diagnostics: The Role of the Laboratory
Influenza, Measles, SARS, MERS, and Smallpox
Zoonotic Infections and Biowarfare Agents in Critical Care: Anthrax, Plague, and Tularemia
Hemorrhagic Fevers
Multidrug Resistance Bacterial Infection
Central Nervous System Infection
Intracranial Pressure Monitoring and Management in Bacterial Meningitis
Rabies
Tetanus
Malaria
Tuberculosis Multidrug Resistance (MDR-TB)
Preparing the ICU for a Highly Infectious Disease
Pandemic Declaration and Preparation.