Respiratory infections in the elderly
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Respiratory infections in the elderly
Raven Press, c1991
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This volume is a guide to the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of pneumonia, the common cold, influenza, bronchial infections, and tuberculosis in elderly people. The contributors explain how the incidence, clinical and laboratory features, and course of these diseases are affected by ageing, malnutrition, coexisting illnesses, and medications and how these factors impact on decisions about therapy and prophylaxis. A chapter on antibiotics includes dosing schedules for specific drugs, infections, and clinical scenarios. Detailed recommendations are offered for vaccination, control of airborne infection in nursing homes, and prevention, diagnosis, and management of nosocomial pneumonia. Other problems addressed include the emergence of newer respiratory pathogens in the elderly, the treatment of aspiration pneumonia, and the workup and management of recurrent or unresolving pneumonia.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Epidemiology of respiratory infections in the elderly, David Bentley and Joseph M. Mylotte: pneumonia - incidence, demographics
- defining the patient at risk
- community-acquired pneumonia
- nursing home-related pneumonia
- nosocomial pneumonia and relation to underlying illness
- tuberculosis - an increasing problem in the elderly
- airway infections - acute bronchitis in patients with lung disease. Part 2 Pulmonary host defenses in the elderly, Anthony L. Esposito: overview of the normal respiratory host defense system
- impairments in respiratory host defenses in the elderly - impairments related in aging
- impairments related to coexisting illness, including malnutrition
- impairments related to therapeutic interventions and medications. Part 3 Community-acquired pneumonia in the elderly, Michael S. Niederman and Alan M. Fein: general features - presentations, laboratory findings, effect on coexisting illness, relationship of presentation to outcome
- specific common bacterial and viral infections - pneumococcus, legionella, gram-negative microorganisms, viral pneumonia / influenza. Part 4 The common cold, Ann R. Falsey: incidence clinical features
- morbidity and complications
- therapy - antiviral approaches, symptom control. Part 5 Influenza in the elderly, Thomas R. Cate: clinical syndromes, including variations in the elderly
- complicatons
- therapy
- prevention, including control in nursing homes. Part 6 Airway infection, Robert A. Stockley: acute bronchitis - presentation, complications, therapy
- bronchiectasis - clinical picture, pathogenesis, antibiotic therapy and prophylaxis, diagnostic techniques. Part 7 Newer or emerging pulmonary pathogens for respiratory infection in the elderly, Elizabeth A. Williams and Abraham Verghese: common pathogens in the elderly
- "newer" pathogens - why do they emerge in the elderly?
- clinical settings for the new pathogens. Part 8 Tuberculosis in the elderly, Asim K. Dutt and William W. Stead: clinical features - how tuberculosis differs in the elderly
- diagnosis and control of tuberculosis in nursing homes
- therapy and prophylaxis of tuberculosis in the elderly. Part 9 Nosocomial pneumonia in the elderly, Michael S. Niederman: the postoperative patient
- the intubated patient
- aspiration pneumonia in the hospital. Part 10 Pharmacology of antimocrobials in the elderly. Part 11 Aspiration pneumonia in the elderly. Part 12 Slowly resolving pneumonia in the elderly. Part 13 Airborne infections in nursing homes. Part 14 Respiratory infections in the elderly. Part contents.
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