STAT puts extablished protocols, recommended course of treatment and antimicrobial selection right at your fingertips. STAT was designed as a summary guide to a number of common infectious diseases where the data and recommendations form published guidelines was collected and reproduced in a simple to folow pocket book. Presenting algorithms for treatment and therapeutic strategies, disease prevalence and resistance issues and antimicrobial selection STAT provides a quick reference tool for practicingphysicians, nurse practitioners, physicians' assistants, pharmacists and microbiologists.
Man, I keep this one with me at all times. It's like I can't seem to ever put it down! Just when I think I understand what's going on, boom! I turn the page and I'm lost in this massive sea of charts, tables, and words.
This book was useful as I first made my way through antimicrobial treatment, but I found the newer edition (2007) to contain new and more beneficial charts and tablets and recommend that version over this one.