- Accessible to both nurse specialists and doctors
- Focussed on clinical management
- Practical approaches as a focus
This book is targeted at ensuring frontline clinical staff including seniors, trainees and specialist nurses can easily reference the optimum investigation and management of potential TB cases.
This will mirror the annual London Advanced TB course which aims to equip all of the team delivering care to have a working knowledge of the entire spectrum of the real life aspects of TB management ranging from investigation of active TB to latent screening in pre biologic therapy.
It includes an update of MDR TB management and also the approaches needed to ensure the entire medico-social spectrum of TB care is addressed.
Table of Contents- The Natural History of TB and Latent Infection
- Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) Vaccine
- Pulmonary, Pleural and Mediastinal TB: Clinical Aspects and Diagnosis
- Extra Pulmonary Lymph Node, Abdominal and Pericardial Tuberculosis
- Spinal and Bone Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis of the Central Nervous System
- Tuberculosis in Renal Disease
- Tuberculosis in Children and Adolescents
- HIV and TB
- Radiology of Tuberculosis
- Laboratory Diagnostic Techniques
- Whole Genome Sequencing: Applications and Cluster Investigations
- The Tuberculin Skin Test and the IFN-γ Release Assays
- TB Treatment and Complications
- Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis Management
- Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Tuberculosis
- Anti-tumour Necrosis Alpha Factor Treatment, Immunosuppression and Chemotherapy Prophylaxis
- Contact Investigation
- Approaches to New Entrant Screening and Occupational Health Screening
- Incident Management and Mass Contact Screening
