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Antibiotics Flashcards

1
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What percentage of hospital in patients are on antibiotics?

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25%

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2
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What proportion of the NHS drug budget is spent on antibiotics?

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30%

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3
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What proportion of antibiotic use is inappropriate?

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50%

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4
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Give some examples of the relationship between inappropriate drug use and resistance

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MRSA
Clostridium difficile
VRE
Resistant enterobacteriaceae

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5
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Give some examples of resistant enterobacteriaceae

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E.coli
K. pneumoniae
Extended spectrum beta lactamase (ESBL) producers
Carbapenemase producing enterobacteriaceae
Klebsiella producing carbapenemases (KPC)

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6
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What can reduce the risk of antibiotic resistance?

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Giving less antibiotics

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7
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What is the most common antibiotic resistant bacteria at the moment?

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E.coli

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8
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Which antibiotics is E.coli currently resistant to?

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Gentamicin
Ciprofloxacin
Piperacillin - tazobactam
Co-amoxiclav

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9
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In what ways are some antibiotics not appropriate?

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Indication

Duration

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10
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What type of bacteria is E.coli?

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Gram negative

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11
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What factors affect antibiotic choice?

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Patient factors - severity and predisposition (eg. splenectomy)
Antimicrobial resistance - exposure and epidemiology
Microbial aetiology - exposure and focus
Antibiotic knowledge

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12
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In clinical practice what do you use to inform your knowledge of antibiotics?

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Microguide

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13
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What is antimicrobial stewardship?

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A set of strategies used to reduce antibiotic resistance, avoid unnecessary cost and improve patient outcomes

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14
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Give the 2 antimicrobial stewardship strategies

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Primary care - Target

Secondary care - Start smart then focus

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15
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What percentage of review and revise decisions are to continue antibiotics?

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95%

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16
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How can we review and revise antibiotics better?

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Recognize that in hospitals antibiotics are usually started empirically

Think about what evidence you would want to have at review

When you review

  • Remember antibiotics are harmful
  • Did they ever have an infection?
  • Are they better now?
  • Do the risks of continuing outweigh the benefits?
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17
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At what point should you review antibiotics?

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48 to 72 hours after starting

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18
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What are the two moments when making ood antimicrobial choices?

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Initial prescription - microbial aetiology, patient factors, antimicrobial resistance issues, monitoring, guidelines, knowledge

Monitoring and test results - review and revise

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19
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What type of antibiotic is amoxicillin?

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Penicillin

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20
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How does amoxicillin differ from other penicillins?

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Longer half life than penicillin 5
Better activity against gram negative bacteria
Good oral bioavailability

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21
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Where is amoxicillin used?

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Treatment of S.pyogenes infections, pneumococcal infection and coliform infections

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22
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Describe the mechanism of action of amoxicillin

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Inhibition of bacterial wall synthesis

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23
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What is the standard dose of amoxicillin?

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250-1000mg 8 hourly

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24
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Give the adverse effects of amoxicillin

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Allergy

Damage to commensals

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25
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Give an interaction of amoxicillin

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Can increase the levels of other protein bound drugs

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26
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Give the half life of amoxicillin

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1 hour

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27
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How is amoxicillin excreted?

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Urine

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28
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List the beta lactam antibiotics

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Penicillin G and V
Amoxicillin and co amoxiclav
Flucloxacillin
Piperacillin 
Cephalexin
Cefuroxine 
Meropenem
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29
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Which antibiotic is used for staph aureus infections?

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Flucloxacillin

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30
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Which antibiotic is regarded the easy oral penicillin?

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Amoxicillin

31
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What is co amoxiclav?

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Amoxicillin protected against beta lactamases

32
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What is the penicillin used to treat pseudomonas?

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Piperacillin

33
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What is another word for a penicillin allergy?

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Beta lactam allergy (class effect)

34
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Name the two classes of penicillin allergy

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Immediate/Accelerated (Type 1)

Delayed (Type 2)

35
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What percentage of courses result in a type 1 immediate/accelerated penicilin allery?

36
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Describe a type 1 immediate/accelerated penicillin allergy

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0-72hrs after exposure
IgE and mast cell mediated
Urticaria, wheeze and life threatening

37
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Describe a type 2 delayed penicillin allergy

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> 72 hours after exposure
Will worsen with repeated exposure
Does not become the immediate type

38
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What percentage of antibiotic courses result in an delayed penicillin allergy?

39
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Describe cephalosporin allergy

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Very complicated – lots of potential haptens involved
Not a class effect
Penicillin X-reactivity more with 1st & 2nd generations
Risk ~8% if previous penicillin allergy
Less with 3rd Generation

40
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Describe a history of beta lactam allergy and the outcome of the history

A

When was it?
What happened – time course and severity?
What was the drug?
Might they have had glandular fever?
Have they had a (different) beta-lactam since?

Good history of anaphylaxis – avoid all beta-lactams
Weak history or of delayed reaction – consider re-challenge.

41
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What drug class is clarythromycin?

42
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What is clarythromycin used to treat?

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S.pyogenes infections
Pneumococcal infections
Coliform infections
Cell wall deficient bacteria (chlamydia) so used to also treat genitourinary infection

43
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Give the mechanism of action of clarythromycin

A

Inhibition of protein synthesis in the bacterial ribosome (50S subunit)

44
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What is the standard dose of clarythromycin?

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500mg 12hrly

45
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Describe the drug interactions of clarythromycin

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Inhibits enzymes (cytochrome p450) involved in metabolism of other drugs

46
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Give the half life of clarythromycin

47
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How is clarythromycin excreted?

48
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How is clarythromycin metabolised?

49
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What are the adverse effects of clarythromycin?

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Nausea and diarrhoea

May alter cardiac conduction - arrhythmia

50
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What class of antibiotic is vancomycin?

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Glycopeptide

51
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What is vancomycin active against?

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Gram positive bacteria

Methicillin resistant staph aureus (MRSA)

52
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Describe the oral bioavailability of vancomycin

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Low as it is a big molecule

53
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What is the half life of vancomycin?

54
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How is vancomycin excreted?

55
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Give the mechanism of action of vancomycin

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Inhibits bacterial cell wall (peptidoglycan) formation by a different target to beta lactams

56
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What is the dose of vancomycin

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Dosed according to drug level in blood - narrow therapeutic index. 500-1500mg 12 hourly

57
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What does narrow therapeutic index mean?

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Levels needed to kill the patient are close to the levels that are toxic to the patient

58
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What are the adverse effects of vancomycin?

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Nephrotoxic and ototoxic

59
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What interactions are there with vancomycin?

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Other nephrotoxic and ototoxic drugs

60
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What class of antibiotic is doxycycline?

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Antibiotic

61
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What is doxycycline used to treat

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Skin, genitourinary and respiratory infections
Gram positive - staph and strep
Gram negative - haemophilus
Cell wall deficient - chlamydia

62
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What interactions does doxycycline have?

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Competes for protein binding with digoxin and warfarin

63
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Describe the mechanism of action of doxycycline

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Inhibits protein synthesis in bacterial ribosomes (30S subunit)

64
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What is the standard dose of doxycycline?

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100-200mg daily

65
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What are the adverse effects of doxycylcine?

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Dyspepsia

Photosensitivity

66
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In which patients must doxycycline be avoided?

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Pregnant

Children(teeth)

67
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What drug class does nitrofurantoin belong to?

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Nitrofuran

68
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What does nitrofuratoin treat?

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Wide spectrum
E.coli and enterobacteriaceae
Staphs
Streps
Enterococci

Only indicated for UTI treatment

69
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What is the half life of nitrofurantoin?

70
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What is the dose of nitrofurantoin?

71
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How does nitrofurantoin work?

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Damages bacterial DNA
High resistance threshold
Complex mechanism of action

72
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Describe the use of nitrofurantoin in pregnancy

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Safe in early pregnancy

Avoid in late

73
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Is nitrofurantoin safe in renal impairment?

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No - doesnt penetrate urine if GFR is low

74
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Which antibiotics seem to have a low C.diff risk?

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Nitrofurantoin and doxycycline

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