Bacteraemic infections

Question 1

What is the difference between bacteraemia and septicaemia?

Answer 1

Bacteraemia- Bacteria in blood

Septicaemia- symptomology from the bacteraemia

Question 2

Why might elderly patients develop oedema when septic?

Answer 2

This is because of DIC

Question 3

Staph bovis bacteraemia can be a sign of what?

Answer 3

Occult colorectal carcinoma

Question 4

What is the management of MRSA in an open wound?

Answer 4

IV vancomycin

Question 5

What is the definition of SIRS?

Answer 5

SIRS is defined as 2 or more of the following variables:

Fever of more than 38°C or less than 36°C
Heart rate of more than 90 beats per minute
Respiratory rate of more than 20 breaths per minute or arterial carbon dioxide tension (PaCO 2) of less than 32 mm Hg
Abnormal white blood cell count (>12,000/µL or < 4,000/µL or >10% immature [band] forms)