Optimizing Antimicrobial Therapy of Life-Threatening Infection, Sepsis and Septic Shock, an Issue of Critical Care Clinics , Vol. 27-1

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This issue of Critical Care Clinics by Dr. Anand Kumar will feature articles on: Optimizing Antimicrobial Therapy in Life-threatening infection, sepsis and septic shock;General principles of antimicrobial dosing and PK/PD; Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic issues in the critically ill with severe sepsis and septic shock;Understanding antimicrobial resistance;Combination vs monotherapy in critical illness; Antifungal therapy.

By Anand Kumar, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology/Therapeutics University of Manitoba And Associate Professor of Medicine Robert Wood Johnson Medical School University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey