Antibiotic Drugs

Question 1

What is Antibiotics Drugs

Answer 1

Antibiotics are drugs that aid in preventing diseases brought on by bacteria. They accomplish this by eliminating germs or by preventing them from duplicating or procreating.

Question 2

A patient is being looked after by a medical practitioner who will soon administer gentamicin to treat a systemic infection. When evaluating a patient, which discovery is given priority by the healthcare professional?

Answer 2

Decreased Urine Output

Question 3

Action Mechanism
Prevents the cross-linking of peptidoglycans, which prevents the production of bacterial cell walls.

Answer 3

Amoxicillin

Question 4

Action Mechanism
Permanently bind to bacterial ribosomes and prevent protein production

Answer 4

Gentamicin

Question 5

Erythromycin

Answer 5

Action Mechanism
Inhibit the production of bacterial proteins Bacteriostatic binding to the 50s subunit of bacterial ribosomes

Question 5

What are the three most crucial details to understand before prescribing antibiotics?

Answer 5

Know the patient
Know the microbiology
Know the drugs

Question 6

What does the term “antibiotic” mean?

Answer 6

Organic substances produced by bacteria with the potential to harm other microorganisms

Question 7

Describe Bacteriocidal activity

Answer 7

Bactericidal drugs eliminate organisms, rapidly reducing the number of viable organisms.

Question 8

What are drugs with a broad spectrum?

Answer 8

Widely effective against a variety of diseases frequently for empiric treatment

Question 9

How does the lab present its data on drug cultures?

Answer 9

1. Susceptible
2. Intermediate
3. Resistant

Question 10

What kind of penicillin undergo hepatocellular metabolism and are biliary excreted?

Answer 10

Semi-synthetic penicillins

Question 11

What class of antibiotics are B-Lactams used for during pregnancy?

Answer 11

Category B

Question 12

What medication is recommended for syphilis?

Answer 12

Penecillin G

Question 13

Macrolides ADRs

Answer 13

Nausea, Vomiting

Question 14

Penicillin

Answer 14

A substance that Alexander Fleming recognized as an antibiotic. It interferes with the synthesis of bacterial cell walls by targeting the peptidoglycans that are

Question 15

What characterizes an antibiotic as bacteriocidal in terms of viability and turbidity?

Answer 15

If viability decreases

Question 16

what is an antibiogram.

Answer 16

A profile of an organism’s in vitro antimicrobial susceptibility for a specific population of organisms (hospital).

Question 17

Which antibiotics are potentially nephrotoxic and ototoxic?

Answer 17

Amphotericin B and minglycosides

Question 18

What causes pseudomembranous colitis after taking antibiotics?

Answer 18

They cause the GI’s regular flora to be disrupted, which promotes the growth of Clostridium difficle.

Question 19

A medical expert is giving an IV cefotetan injection to a patient who has bacterial meningitis when they notice that the IV insertion site is warm and irritated. What among the following should the healthcare provider do?

Answer 19

Stop the cefotetan infusion.