The Johns Hopkins Hospital 1997 Guide to Medical Care of Patients with HIV Infection; 7th ed. Bartlett JG. 190 pages. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins; 1997. $12.00. ISBN 0683303562. Order phone 800-638-0672.
Field of medicine: Infectious diseases.
Format: Softcover book.
Audience: Medical students, residents, infectious disease fellows, general internists, subspecialists, and neurologists.
Purpose: To provide guidelines for the care of patients with HIV infection.
Content: This guide presents, in a logical sequence, everything the clinician needs to know about caring for patients with HIV infection and AIDS. The final chapter contains a series of helpful algorithms on the care of patients with central nervous system, gastrointestinal, and pulmonary infections and fevers of unknown origin.
Highlights: Instead of being confined to end-of-the-chapter bibliographies (to which most readers pay little attention), relevant references fall immediately on the heels of discussion of clinical concepts within the text. Extraordinary tables are packed full of data on treatment schedules, drug interactions, and almost every conceivable clinical scenario that can arise with HIV infection. The book is small and sturdy and will withstand the rigors of frequent referral on the wards and in outpatient clinics.
Limitations: Given its practical purpose, this guide has no limitations and is highly recommended to all clinicians caring for patients with HIV infection.
Related reading: The continuing blizzard of textbooks on HIV and AIDS has dulled the senses of many interested readers. Although it is not as complete as The Medical Management of AIDS, 5th edition, edited by Sande and Volberding (WB Saunders, 1997), this book contains similar pertinent information and has the advantage of an easy-to-use format.
Reviewer: John A. Robinson, MD, Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois.
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