Healthcare-Associated Infections in Children, 1st ed. 2019 A Guide to Prevention and Management

While a number of texts discuss HAIs in the broader context of infectious diseases or pediatric infectious diseases (such as Mandell?s Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases or Long and Pickering?s Principles and Practice of Pediatric Infectious Diseases) no single text specifically focuses on the epidemiology, diagnosis and management of HAI in children.  Many infectious diseases texts are organized based on the microbiology of infection and from this starting point then discussing the clinical syndromes associated with the organism of interest.  For instance, a chapter on Staphylococcus aureus may contain a brief discussion of the role of S. aureus in surgical site infections in the wider context of all staphylococcal disease.  For clinicians caring for children at the bedside, however, the clinical syndrome is typically appreciated and intervention necessary prior to organism identification.  We propose a text that details both the general principles involved in HAIs and infection prevention but also provides a problem oriented approach.  Such a text would be of interest to intensivists, neonatologists, hospitalists, oncologists, infection preventionists and infectious diseases specialists.  The proposed text will be divided into three principle sections: 1) Basic Principles of Infection Control and Prevention, 2) Major Infectious Syndromes and 3) Infections in Vulnerable Hosts.  Chapters in the Major Infectious Syndromes section will include discussion of the epidemiology, microbiology, clinical features, diagnosis, medical management (or surgical management as appropriate) and prevention of the disease entity of interest.  Chapters will seek to be evidenced based as much as possible drawing from the published medical literature as well as from clinical practice guidelines (such as those from the Infectious Diseases Society of America) when applicable.  We intend to include tables, figures and algorithms as appropriate to assist clinicians in the evaluation and management of these often complex patients.  Finally, we intend to invite authors to participate in this project from across a number of medical specialties including infectious diseases, infection control, critical care, oncology and surgery to provide a multidisciplinary understanding of disease.  It is our intent to have many chapters be co-written by individuals in different subspecialties; for instance, a chapter on ventilator-associated pneumonia may be co-written by both infectious disease and critical care medicine specialists.  Such a unique text has the potential to provide important guidance for clinicians caring for these often fragile children.

Section 1.  Overview of Infection Control and Prevention

Chapter 1.  Basic Principles of Infection Control

Chapter 2.  The Role of the Environment and Colonization in Healthcare Associated Infections

Chapter 3. The Role of Antimicrobial Stewardship 

Chapter 4: Infection Control and the Need for Family/Child Centered Care 

Section 2.  Major Healthcare-Associated Infection Syndromes

Chapter 5: Fever in the Hospitalized or Critically Ill Child

Chapter 6:  Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI)

Chapter 7:  Ventilator Associated Pneumonias

Chapter 8:  Infections Complicating Abdominal Surgery Procedures

Chapter 9: Infections Complicating Orthopedic Surgery and Implants

Chapter 10: Infections Complicating Neurosurgical Procedures/Devices

Chapter 11: Infections Complicating Cardiothoracic Surgery and Cardiac Devices

Chapter 12: Healthcare-Associated Gastrointestinal Infections

Chapter 13: Healthcare-associated Urinary Tract Infections

Chapter 14: Healthcare Associated Viral Infections: Considerations for Nosocomial Transmission and Infection Control

Section 3.  Infections in Vulnerable Hosts

Chapter 15: Healthcare-associated infections in the NICU: a brief review

Chapter 16: Infection Prevention in pediatric oncology and hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients

Chapter 17: Nosocomial Infections in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplantation

Chapter 18: Infections in Pediatric Patients with End Stage Renal Disease

Jonathon Chase McNeil, MD, BS
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Section of Infectious Disease
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital
1102 Bates Street, Suite 1150
Houston, TX 77030 

Judith R. Campbell, MD
Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Section of Infectious Disease
Baylor College of Medicine
Texas Children’s Hospital
1102 Bates Street
Houston, TX 77030-2399, USA 

Jonathan Crews MD, MS
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Baylor College of Medicine
The Children’s Hospital of San Antonio
315 N. San Saba, Suite 1003
San Antonio, TX 78207

Includes basic principles from a problem- and evidence-based approach

Richly illustrated with tables, figures and algorithms

Written by experts in multiple medical fields, including infectious diseases and pediatrics