Volume3, Number 4, Year 2014

Special Issue: Management of Infections in Pediatric Critical Care

Guest Editors: Dr. Julie C. Fitzgerald and Dr. Scott L. Weiss


Guest Editorial
Scott L. Weiss and Julie C. Fitzgerald
Management of infections in pediatric critical care


Original Articles
Srinivas Murthy and Niranjan Kissoon
Management of severe viral infections in the pediatric intensive care unit


Heather Siefkes, Mitchell Hamele, Krow Ampofo, and W.Bradley Poss
Risk factors for poor outcomes and therapeutic strategies for seasonal and pandemic influenza


Kathleen Chiotos, Fran Balamuth and Halden F. Scott
Management of bacterial severe sepsis and septic shock


Demet Demirkol and Joseph Carcillo
Management of the critically ill child with the sepsis/hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis/macrophage activation syndrome overlap syndrome


Jennifer A. Muszynski, W. Joshua Frazier, and Mark W. Hall
Adjunctive and novel therapies for sepsis


Kathleen Chiotos, Brian T. Fisher, and Theoklis Zaoutis
Management of invasive fungal infections in the pediatric intensive care unit


Jusdith A. Guzman-Cottrill and Aileen Kirby
Healthcare-associated infections in the pediatric intensive care unit


Juan D. Chaparro and John A.D. Leake
Parasitic disease in the pediatric intensive care unit - a review of severe manifestations of pediatric parasitic disease


Laura Vella and Brian T. Fisher
Infectious disease approach to immunocompromised patients in the pediatric intensive care unit