Cases in Clinical Infectious Disease Practice
1. Edition August 2016
272 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
In the era of cost cutting and lack of adequate health insurance for many patients, clinical skills and time spent with patients are not adequately compensated. Yet, these dwindling and underpaid skills - good history taking, observation of and listening to patients, and physical examination of patients - remain very essential to making and reaching a complete and accurate diagnosis. Expensive laboratory and imaging diagnostics while very relevant, should not replace these age-old skills that have served to enhance and maintain the doctor-patient relationship and human connection, a connection that is often necessary for healing.
Cases in Clinical Infectious Disease Practice uses case studies to illustrate how the infectious disease clinician processes and integrates data to arrive at a diagnosis. This type of hands-on approach, invaluable in training programs, is utilized to take the reader through initial patient encounter, through the history and physical examination, to simple laboratory findings and stains, to a final diagnosis, in a way that is easily accessible to clinicians, students, and laboratory personnel working with clinical specimens.
* Appeals to practitioners of all levels, with focus on patients with common problems or complications of common infections without heavy technical language
* Emphasizes basic clinical skills including history taking, observation, epidemiology, and physical exam, as well as simple laboratory tests, explaining how they lead to a reasonable diagnosis
* Presents cases seen first-hand within the community setting, reflective of cases or situations a resident or student is likely to encounter in the real world after training
Cases in Clinical Infectious Disease Practice is an essential resource for clinicians, graduate and medical school students, and others conducting medical and clinical microbiology or infectious disease research on real patients.
Preface/Introduction
How the book should be used and understood
Section One: Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
Section Two: Fever of Unknown Origin and Drug InducedFever
Section Three: Dermatologic Manifestations of Infectious andNon-Infectious Diseases
Section Four: Diseases Acquired Through Close Contact withAnimals
Section Five: Travel-associated Blood-borne ParasiticInfection
Section Six: Gulf Coast Tick Rash Illness
Section Seven: Acute and Chronic Subcutaneous FungalInfections
Section Eight: Endocarditis with Unusual Organisms orCharacteristics
Section Nine: Severe Systemic Fungal & Other Infectionsin AIDS Patients
Section Ten: Toxic Manifestations of Infectious andNon-infectious Diseases
Section Eleven: Skin and Soft Tissue Infections Seen PostHurricane Katrina
Section Twelve: Miscellaneous Other Infections
Index
About the Author: (see inside cover)
--The cases presented were seen between 1997 and 2012, a 15 yearperiod, and include inpatients and outpatients.
--The presentations reflect the time and period during which thepatients (cases) were encountered. Diagnostic and treatmentmodalities, therefore, reflect those available at the time andplace of care.
--All of these cases were consultations provided to physicianspracticing in the community setting (whether hospital-based or inoffice practice).
--All personal identifiers have been removed (including names ofinstitutions where care was provided), in order to protect theidentity of the patients. However, the dates of patientencounters (consults) have been included for context, as well asthe season of the year, as these may be important epidemiologicclues to making a correct diagnosis.
--At the end of each case presentation, simple diagnostic clueswill be addressed and any lessons learnt from the case.
