Includes bibliographical references and index.

Clinical approach to fever in critical care -- Fever and rash in critical care -- Physical exam clues to infectious diseases and their mimics in critical care -- Ophthalmologic clues to infectious diseases and their mimics in critical care -- Radiology of infectious diseases and their mimics in critical care -- Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus Vancomycin-resistant enterococci colonization and infection in the critical care unit -- Clinical approach to sepsis and its mimics in critical care -- Meningitis and its mimics in critical care -- Encephalitis and its mimics in critical care -- Severe community-acquired pneumonia in critical care -- Nosocomial pneumonia in critical care -- Intravenous central line infections in critical care -- Infective endocarditis and its mimics in critical care -- Intra-abdomial surgical infections and their mimics in critical care -- Clostridium difficile infection in critical care -- Urosepsis in critical care -- Severe skin and soft tissue infections in critical care -- Tropical infections in critical care -- Infections in cirrhosis in critical care -- Severe infections in asplenic patients in critical care -- Infections in burns in critical care -- Infections related to steroids in immunosuppressive/immunomodulating agents in critical care -- Infections in organ transplants in critical care -- Miliary tuberculosis in critical cae -- Bioterrorism infections in critical care -- Selection of antibiotics in critical care -- Antimicrobial therapy of VRE and MRSA in critical care -- Antibiotic therapy of multidrug-resistant Pseudomomas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Acinetobactor baumannii in critical care -- Antibiotic kinetics in the febrile multiple-system trauma patient in critical care -- Antibiotic therapy in the penicillin allergic patient in critical care -- Adverse reactions to antiobiotics in critical care.