Infectious and Rare Diseases

Infectious Diseases in Critical Care Medicine

Intensive care medicine is a branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis of life-threatening conditions requiring sophisticated organ support and invasive monitoring. Critical illness is a cause and a consequence of serious infections with a diverse spectrum of pathogens at various anatomic sites. The practice of critical care medicine has become more multidisciplinary pursuit  involves a wide range of practitioners who have training in general medicine, specialty areas critical care medicine, pulmonary medicine, cardiology and various degrees of knowledge about infection. Basic and clinical investigation on diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of infection in the complex critical-care patient population.