Emergency care for infectious disease patients

: Urgent critical condition during acute course of infectious diseases can be developed in early terms and suddenly with fast irreversible changes in vital organs and systems. In connection with generality of pathogenesis of many groups of infectious diseases the critical conditions characterized by stereotyped clinical syndromes. They include infective toxic shock, infective toxic encephalopathy and cerebral hypertension, acute dehydration, acute respiratory, cardiac, hepatic, adrenal and renal insufficiency. Urgent therapeutic measures can be standardized with reference to that or other syndromes of critical conditions. In their number--prescription of glucocorticosteroids, diuretics, neuroleptics, antipyretic preparations, solutions of various applicability. Application of antimicrobic preparations and specific antitoxic serums, antimalarial preparations requires care in connection with possible development of complications of toxic or allergic character.