Micro Flashcards
Pneumonia
Fatigue, cough, fever
Productive or not`
Crackles
Pneumonia
What do present with pneumonia
CXR
Treat atypical
Macrolides..azithromycin and clarithromycin
Treat ambulatory
Macrolides….doxycycline if cant tolerate
Increased risk of drug resistance
Fluoroquinolones or macrolide and beta lactam
Treat hospitalized
Fluoroquinolones
Treat ICU
Fluoroquinolone and lactam
Add piperacillin or a PE EM for pseudomonas coverage
Mycoplasma pneumonia and chlamydia pneumoniae atypical
Follow URI
Except chlamydia have hoarse voice
Legionella pneum atypical
More severe
Age of walking pneumona
Younger
Follow UIR\RI
Procalcitonin
Precursor that becomes elevated in proinflammatory stimuli, espicially those bacterial in origin
Curb
Confusion 1 BUN>20 1 RR>30 1 BP<90/60 1 Over 65 1
01-outpatient
2-short inpatient or supervise
3-5 ICU
Legionella
Water loving aerobic flagellate gram negative bacillus
Treat legionella
Levofloxacin
Fast fermented OH KEE
Klebsiella, E. coli, enterobacter
Slow fermenters
Citrobacter serratia
Who gets pneumococcal van
Over 65
Asplenic
2-64 with risk factors
Contraindications to pneumococcal vax
Allergic anaphylaxis
Fever inflamed turbinates
Adenovirus
Rales and altered mental status, coughing fit right hear border obscured coughing at dinner last night
Aspiration pneumonia…anaerobic more indolent clindamycin amoxicillin.
S aureus
Follows the flu! Bad can just die…
Burkholderia
G1 bacillus, cat positive, non lactose fermenter. BC agar. CF. On hospital equipment and irrigation systems. Hard to treat
Leptospirosis
Spirochete. High fever…HA, aspetic meningitis, severe myalgia. Hepatitis with jaundice renal failure with nephritis, subconjunctical hemorrhage. Rodents cattle, horse, goats,