Clinical Management of Bacterial Pneumonia, 1st ed. 2015

This concise, clinically focused handbook offers a complete overview of bacterial pneumonia and reviews the latest guidelines, treatment options, clinical trials, and management of this disease. The easily accessible text offers infectious disease specialists and other health care workers with an excellent quick reference tool, with full color tables and figures enhancing the text further. Pneumonia is a debilitating disease, and can also be a very serious complication of pre-existing lung conditions. Combined with influenza (a predisposing factor) it is the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, such there is a need for physicians to prevent pneumonia by vaccination and hygiene methods, as well as recognizing and treating early.

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Antoni Torres, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Barcelona. Born in Barcelona in 1954, he is Full Professor of Medicine at the University of Barcelona and Head of the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit at Hospital Clínic Barcelona. He is considered a physician of reference both nationally and internationally in lung infections, including pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, bronchiectasis, immunocompromised patients, ventilation weaning, noninvasive ventilation, and acute respiratory distress syndrome. He leads the research group on Applied Research in Respiratory Diseases of the Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), from where he facilitates translational research studies. He also coordinates a CIBER group on respiratory diseases (Ciberes) and takes part in several European projects. He is co-author of more than 300 scientific publications, has supervised 24 PhD theses, and his H-Index is 97.
Professor Torres has been the recipient of several awards, including the Edward Shanoff award (1988), the Josep Trueta Award (2001), the Fundación de Ciencias de la Salud (2001) award for the 10 best biomedical researchers in the last 4 years, the Lilly Foundation Award (2007) and the Award EUROPE ASPIRE (2011). He was awarded to “the professional excellence in Investigation” of the COMB (College of Physicians), 2013 and received the “ICREA Academia” award from the University of Barcelona (2013). He also holds a Fellowship of the ERS (European Respiratory Society) for the contribution to research in the respiratory field (2014). He is also member of several societies and is the President of the area of tuberculosis and respiratory infections of the Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery (SEPAR) and President of the area of respiratory infections of the Latin American Thorax Association (ALAT).
Catia Cillóniz Campos, PhD, is a Doctor in Medicine at the University of Barcelona. She holds a degree in B