1st Year Onlines Revision (Quick) Flashcards
antibiotics for mild CAP
amoxicillin
antibiotics for severe CAP
IV co-amoxiclav + oral doxycycline
antibiotics for mild HAP
oral amoxicillin
antibiotics for severe HAP
IV amoxicillin IV gentamicin
staph aureus gastroenteritis incubation time and symptoms
1-6 hours
just vomiting
bacillus cereus gastroenteritis incubation time and symptoms
6 hours
diarrhoea and vomiting
e.coli gastroenteritis incubation time and symptoms
2-14 days
bloody diarrhoea
metallic green stool cultures
shigella gastroenteritis incubation time and symptoms
‘shigellaaaaa theres blood’
48-72 hours
blood diarrhoea
vomiting
campylobacter gastroenteritis incubation time and symptoms
48-72 hours
flu like
giardiasis gastroenteritis incubation time and symptoms
incubation >7 days
prolonged non-bloody diarrhoea
amoebiasis gastroenteritis incubation time and symptoms
aaaaaa blood
bloody diarrhoea
lasts weeks
most common cause of gastroenteritis
Campylobacter
foods you can get campylobacter from
poultry, unpasteurised milk
food you can get salmonella from
poultry
raw egg
meat and animal guts
where can you get e.coli from
petting zoos!!
undercooked burgers
where can you get bacillus cereus from
rice
is the vagus nerve parasympathetic or sympathetic
parasympathetic
is the phrenic nerve parasympathetic or sympathetic
sympathetic
where to parasympathetic nerves exit the spinal cord
cranial sacral
where do sympathetic nerves exit the spinal cord
thoracic-lumbar
signet ring on CT lung
bronchiectasis
D sign on CXR
empyema
steeple sign on CXR
croup
rusty sputum
pneumococcal pneumonia
red current jelly sputum
kleibseilla pneumonia
mucoid sputum
chlamydia psitti pneumonia
most common lung cancer in non-smokers
adenocarcinomas
what nerve innervates the diaphragm
C3,4,5 - phrenic nerve
most common causative organism of a COPD exacerbation
Haemophillus influenza - most common
2nd most common
strep pneumonia
moraxella
signs of pulmonary oedema on CXR (ABCDE)
A- alveolar bat wings B- Kerry B lines C- cardiomegaly D- dilated upper load vessels E- pleural effusion
3 main symptoms of Horner’s syndrome
Miosis (pupil constriction)
Anhydrosis (sweating on half the face)
ptosis (eyelid drooping)
which lung cancer is most associated with hypercalcaemia
squamous cell - due to parathyroid related hormone production
