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Infections in critically ill patients are more common than in most other parts of the hospital, and are often the most complicated to manage.  Underlying disease and the reasons for admission make the diagnosis, management and prevention of infection challenging. Developments in technology, the treatment of previously untreatable malignancies, complex surgery procedures, and an increasing age profile result in more patients vulnerable to infection and a greater number of patients needing critical care support.   Infections in the Adult Intensive Care Unit is designed to help trainee and practicising physician, surgeon or other medical professional manage the acutely ill patient in the critical care unit, before transfer from the emergency department, or on the hospital ward where effective management may avoid admission to the critical care unit. It has been co-authored by a clinical microbiologist, intensivist and clinical infectious diseases physician to cover some of the major infections presenting in the adult critical care unit.  It provides broad principles to be used based on the latest evidence combined with common sense and the results of many years of combined experience.

Communicable diseases -- Prevention. --- Critical care medicine. --- Emerging infectious diseases. --- Infection control. --- Infection --- Critical care medicine --- Age Groups --- Therapeutic Uses --- Hospital Units --- Bacterial Infections and Mycoses --- Health Facilities --- Pharmacologic Actions --- Persons --- Diseases --- Named Groups --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Chemical Actions and Uses --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Health Care --- Adult --- Anti-Infective Agents --- Community-Acquired Infections --- Cross Infection --- Intensive Care Units --- Medicine --- Public Health --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Infectious Diseases --- Emergency Medicine --- Hospitals & Medical Centers --- Complications --- Treatment --- Nosocomial infections. --- Intensive care units. --- Critical care units --- ICUs (Health facilities) --- Hospital-acquired infections --- Hospital infections --- Medicine. --- Infectious diseases. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Intensive / Critical Care Medicine. --- Infectious Diseases. --- Hospital wards --- Iatrogenic diseases --- Emerging infections --- New infectious diseases --- Re-emerging infectious diseases --- Reemerging infectious diseases --- Communicable diseases --- Intensive care --- Intensive medicine --- Emergency medicine --- Intensive care units --- Cross Infection. --- therapeutic use --- Adults --- Care Unit, Intensive --- Care Units, Intensive --- Intensive Care Unit --- Unit, Intensive Care --- Units, Intensive Care --- Infections, Community-Acquired --- Community Acquired Infections --- Community-Acquired Infection --- Infection, Community-Acquired --- Infections, Community Acquired --- Health Care Associated Infection --- Health Care Associated Infections --- Healthcare Associated Infections --- Infection, Cross --- Infections, Hospital --- Infections, Nosocomial --- Hospital Infections --- Nosocomial Infections --- Cross Infections --- Healthcare Associated Infection --- Hospital Infection --- Infection, Healthcare Associated --- Infection, Hospital --- Infection, Nosocomial --- Infections, Cross --- Infections, Healthcare Associated --- Nosocomial Infection --- Staphylococcal Infections --- Catheter-Related Infections --- ICU Intensive Care Units --- Community Acquired Infection --- Acquired Infection, Community --- Acquired Infections, Community --- Infection, Community Acquired