1st Edition
Antibiotic Precision in Critically Ill Patients
1. Basic principles of Antibiotic therapy
Dr. Chhavi Gupta, Dr. Shukla Das
2. Decoding Antimicrobial Susceptibility Reports and Antibiograms
Dr. Seema Gangar, Dr. Sumit Rai, Dr. Shukla Das
3. Pharmacokinetic & pharmacodynamic principles of antimicrobials in critical illness
Dr. Anirban Hom Choudhuri
4. Antimicrobial precision in the critically ill neonatal and paediatric population
Dr. Aparna Chakravarty, Dr. Aleena Issac
5. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
Dr. Souradeep Chowdhury, Dr. Immaculata Xess , Dr. Gagandeep Singh
6. Severe sepsis & septic shock
Dr. Karthikkeyan Rajachandran, Dr. Vishwanath Biradar
7. Infective endocarditis
Dr. Chhavi Gupta, Dr. Arshad Jawed
8. Pneumonia and respiratory infections
Dr. Akshatha Ravindra, Dr. Pothumarthy Venkata Swathi Kiran, Dr. Chhavi Gupta
9. Abdominal Infections
Dr. Durga Shankar Meena, Dr. Deepak Kumar, Dr. Bharathi Arunan
10. Urogenital infections
Dr. Aishwarya R, Dr. Devashish Desai
11 Bone & joint infections
Dr. Netto George Mundadan, Dr. Krishnakumar S
12. Skin and Soft tissue infections
Shipra Goel, Chhavi Gupta
13. Central nervous system infections
Dr. Parul Kodan, Dr. Farsana Mustafa, Dr. Priscilla Lopez
14. Head and neck infections
Dr. Ankesh Gupta, Dr. Chhavi Gupta
15. Precision Antimicrobial Strategies in Critically Ill Immunocompromised Patients
Dr. Vishakh C Keri, Dr. Varshini Thiruvadi
16. Antitubercular Drug Dosing in Critically Ill Patients
Anup R Warrier
17. Non‑Antimicrobial Uses of Antibiotics in the ICU
Dr. Ashit V Hegde
18. Antimicrobial toxicities & treatment
Dr. Pooja Gupta, Dr. Arun P Sunder
19. Precision Antimicrobial Therapy in the ICU: The Emerging Role of Artificial Intelligence
Amol Kodan, Dr. Amit Hooda
20. Annexure 1. Antimicrobial doses
21. Annexure 2 – Clinical cases
Biography
Anirban Hom Choudhuri is a Senior Critical Care Physician, Teacher, Author, and Researcher. He currently serves as Director-Professor and Head, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi. He has made significant contributions to the fields of critical care through teaching, training, and research. His areas of expertise include hemodynamic monitoring, sepsis management, organ support therapies, and multidisciplinary ICU care. A committed Educator, he actively me tors super-specialty trainees, fostering evidence-based practice and clinical excellence and has been honored with Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan distinguished Professor Award in 2021. He is widely acclaimed for his dedication to advancing critical care standards and improving outcomes for critically ill patients through scientific rigor and compassionate care. He has edited several books including Imaging in Critical Care Medicine, & Interpreting Laboratory Tests in Intensive Care.
Dr. Chhavi Gupta is a distinguished Infectious Disease Physician with over 15 years of experience, she holds dual specialist qualifications in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases from the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. She further advanced her expertise through specialized training in oncology and bone marrow transplant infections at Tata Memorial Hospital. In addition, she has pursued an MBA in Healthcare Management, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Analytics from Indian Institute of Management (IIM).
Currently associated with Yashoda Medicity, a quaternary care hospital and research institute in Delhi NCR, Dr. Gupta plays a pivotal role in managing infectious diseases across critical care, inpatient, and outpatient settings. An accomplished academician and researcher, Dr. Gupta has authored more than 30 scientific publications, including original studies, reviews, case reports, and book chapters. With an H-index of 10 and nearly 200 citations, her work has made significant contributions to the fields of infectious diseases and clinical microbiology. She is an active member of several prestigious national and international professional societies, including the European Society of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Clinical Infectious Disease Society of India, American Society for Microbiology, and International Society for Human and Animal Mycology (ISHAM).
Her contributions to healthcare have been recognized through several honors and awards. Dr. Gupta continues to be actively engaged in clinical excellence, research, medical education, and healthcare innovation, with a strong commitment to improving infectious disease care and patient outcome
