Jorge Hidalgo (editor) - Highly Infectious Diseases in Critical Care: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide

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We are delighted to introduce the book on highly infectious diseases, providing the physician with a guide to both the approach to the patient and the treatment.

Highly infectious disease (HID) is transmissible from person to person, carries a high rate of mortality, and represents a serious hazard in the healthcare setting and the community, which requires specific control measures. In the twenty-first century, due to our ability to move from one country to another, environmental factors, changes in lifestyle, and many other factors, we often have seen and experience the emergence of this disease, like SARS and more recently Ebola. With this book, we plan to present a description of the more common and highly infectious diseases to the healthcare practitioners, as well as to the institution, so they can prepare and plan for the potential outbreaks of emerging or resurgent HID. This book will help the critical care physician to define their role in defining the logistics, leading a team, and proving care for these patients. Also, it will help in identifying the barriers to conventional ICU practices when managing a patient with a particular pathogen and ways to circumvent these barriers. We hope the medical community will find it refreshing, exciting, and useful in daily practice.

The preparation of this book required the efforts of many individual. We particularly wish to thank each of the authors; their contributions, prepared in the midst of extremely busy schedules, are responsible for the value of this book. We are deeply appreciative of the help to make this book a reality.

We sincerely appreciate the talents and accomplishments of the Springer professionals, in particular Mr. Andy Kwan, who partner with us all along and took our manuscript and produced it into this book. We welcome all comments, pros and cons, as well as suggested revisions.