Handy - concise - clear

The "always on-hand" pocket guide to the treatment of infectious diseases.
- The most important antibiotics and antimycotics:
Spectrum - dosage - side-effects
- Numerous tables sorted by substances, pathogens, indications
- Administration of antibiotics during pregnancy, renal and hepatic insufficiency, dialysis
- Including statements on the cost of therapy

Numerous tips and troubleshooting guides on topics such as:
- Potential mistakes
- Therapy failures
- Perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis

Adjusted to European standards:
Up-to-date substances, authorizations, resistances and trade names.

The first guide to antibiotic therapy for Europe!

All in all, an approach that looks towards the future in which antimicrobial resistance will certainly represent an ever-growing obstacle for the medical class, and for which books like this will undoubtedly represent a precious resource.
Giuseppe Cornaglia, MD, PhD
President, European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)

This book will most certainly be a valuable asset for all those treating patients with infections. While primarily aimed at the hospital setting, most of the very useful information can certainly be used in other healthcare settings, too.
Andreas Voss
Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control
Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre and Canisius-Wilhelmina Hospital
Nijmegen, The Netherlands

1 Classification of the Antibiotics

2 Generic and Trade Names - Trade Names and Generics
3 Principles of Antibiotic Therapy
4 The Most Common Errors in Antibiotic Therapy
5 Important Infections and Their Microbiological Diagnosis
6 Cooperation with Microbiologists
7 Resistance of Major Clinical Pathogens
8 The Most Frequent Pathogens - Choice of Antibiotics
9 Antibiotics, Antimycotics: Spectrum - Dosage - Adverse Effects - Costs
10 Antibiotic Therapy of the Principal Infections in Children and Adults
11 Treatment of the Most Frequent Types of Bacterial Endocarditis
12 Minimal Duration of Treatment for Bacterial Infections
13 Failure of Antibiotic Therapy
14 Fever of Unknown Origin: Differential Diagnosis
15 Dosage of Antibiotics in Impaired Renal Function
16 Antibiotic Therapy in Hemodialysis, Peritoneal Dialysis, and Continuous Hemofiltration
17 Antibiotic Therapy During Pregnancy and Lactation
18 Antibiotics in Liver Diseases
19 Diffusion of Antibiotics in Cerebrospinal Fluid and in Cerebral Abscesses
20 Local Antibiotics
21 Prophylactic Antibiotic Therapy
22 Physical Incompatibility of Antibiotics and Antimycotics in Infusion Solutions
23 Useful Websites
Subject Index.