Urinary Tract Infections An Issue Of Infectious Disease Clinics

This issue of Infectious Disease Clinics, edited by Dr. Kalpana Gupta, is devoted to Urinary Tract Infections. Articles in this issue include Epidemiology and Definition of Urinary Tract Infection Syndromes; Approach to a Positive Urine Culture; Diagnosis and Management of UTI in the Emergency Room; Diagnosis and Management of UTI in Older Adults; Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Catheter-Associated UTI; Management of Non-Catheter Associated Complicated UTI; Management of UTI due to Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms; Diagnosis and Fungal Management of Fungal UTI; UTI Issues in Special Populations; Prevention of Recurrent UTI; and UTI Pathogenesis.

UTI Challenges: Beyond the Basics, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, E-Book

In this issue of Infectious Disease Clinics, guest editor Kalpana Gupta brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Urinary Tract Infection Challenges. This issue aims to serve clinicians and scholars well over the next decade, with the goal of helping the principles that are currently "beyond the basics" become part of everyday armamentarium. Contains 11 relevant, practice-oriented topics including Reducing Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria; Diagnostic Stewardship for Urine Cultures; Urinary Tract Infection in Male Patients; Urinary Tract Infection Diagnostic and Management Considerations in People with Spinal Cord Injury and Neurogenic Bladder; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on UTI Challenges, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

With the expanding aging population in both the United States and worldwide, health issues associated with aging are major personal and public health concerns. Although cardiovascular diseases, cancers, strokes, dementia, pulmonary disease, and diabetes mellitus are listed as major causes of death in older adults, in many instances the final cause of demise is complications associated with infections. Dr. Jump and Dr. Canady have assembled top authors to present the current clinical knowledge on the following topics: Urinary Tract Infections; Clostrdium difficile; Wounds/SSTI; Influenza; Other Respiratory Viruses; HIV; Antimicrobial Stewardship for Older Adults; Antibiotics at the End of Life; Sepsis in Older Adults; Antimicrobial Therapy in Older Adults; Norovirus/Viral outbreaks; and Bone and Joint Infections. Readers should have a solid understanding of the current clinical information needed to effectively manage infections in older adults.

In this issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Puja Van Epps and David H. Canaday bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Infections in Older Adults. Of the top ten leading causes of death in older adults, two (influenza and pneumonia, and septicemia) are directly related to infection, and infections likely play an important role in several of the other leading causes of death, as well. In this issue, top experts provide important updates on treating and managing infections, including COVID-19, in older adults. Contains 12 practice-oriented topics including sexually transmitted infections in older adults; resistant bacterial infections in older adults; anticoagulation and COVID-19 in long-term care; antimicrobial stewardship in older adults; prevention of COVID-19 in older adults; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on infections in older adults, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

Dr. Kaye and Dr. Dhor have assembled top experts to write about clinical management of infections in Part II of their two issues devoted to Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare. Articles in this issue are devoted to: CLABSI; UTI; Tuberculosis; Ventilator-Assisted Pneumonia; Surgical Site Infection; MRSA; VRE; Gram-Negative Bacilli; Fungal Infections; C. Difficile, and Emerging Infections including Ebola. Infectious Disease physicians and anyone in the hospital setting will find this issue very useful, as state-of-the-art clinical reviews provide clinical management on these common and emerging infections.

Over the past several decades, “infection control has become a rapidly growing multidisciplinary field of incredible importance with regard to the safety of patients and healthcare workers, regulation and accreditation of healthcare facilities, and finances. The focus of this field has increasingly turned to prevention rather than control of hospital-acquired infections. This issue will bring the infectious disease specialist up to date on important topics such as hand hygiene, sterilization, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, antibiotic stewardship, and specific infections of particular concern.