Review Course Content Flashcards
Fever in returning traveler is ____ until proven otherwise?
Malaria - falciparum malaria can kill you in 24-48 hours!!
Pre-travel history?
When, where, how long are you going and why are you going there? ie. food tourism = high risk for cholera, GI illness, typhoid fever, parasites SE Asia (Bankok, Thailand for business meetings) - lower risk profile. PHx, PMHx, Family Hx
Management of traveler with fever?
More than meds!
Twinrix and ciprofloxacin
When is typhoid vaccine indicated in Canadian guidelines?
Southeast Asia & surrounding region
Biggest risk type of travel for fever in traveler?
Visiting relatives!
Antimalarials and comparison as per PHAC 2014?
- Atovaquone - proguanil - daily x 7 days post exposure. Daily dosing and $$$$
- Doxycycline - cheap, daily, photosensitivity rash and need it 30 days post exposure
- Mefloquine - once weekly dosing, frequent side effects including wild dreams!! And psychiatric sx. THUS not first line anymore!
- Primoquine - need blood test before medication taken -G6PD deficiency test. ONLY 7 days after exposure.
- Chloroquine - cheap and long term safety data
* **WIDESPREAD RESISTANCE (Check before prescribing) also has skin and corneal side effects.
Non-pharmacological management and recommendations for pre-travel counseling
- PREVENT - Limit high risk activity - night driving (don’t do it), sex tourism (use PREP or condoms)
- QUIT - smoking, don’t check meds in luggage!!, risky activity
- REFER -travel clinic
- Travelers diarrhea
BIGGEST M&M In patients who are travelers?
MVA’s!!!!
How to prep for travelers diarrhea?
- Pack: Oral rehydration solution, loperamide*, azithromycin, bismuth subsalicylate** (can take QID for prevention)
- Take loperamide for mild diarrhea if no dysentry or blood.
- *Pepto bismol - can take QID for prevention
2. Boil it, peel it, cook it, or forget it
3. Ice cubes, salads, uncooked veg
4. Use bottled water
5. Wash and sanitize hands often
How to manage altitude sickness?
Acetazolamide 125 mg BID Dexamethasone 4 mg BID** Nifedipine Sildenafil/Tadalafil Prophylactic salmeterol
**Also treats high altitude cerebral edema AND get em off the mountain!
NOT recommended: ginko biloba
Aspirin a day?
Primary prevention for CV disease? DON’T START IT!
If already taking? Evidence to discontinue less clear. Do risk assessment
Studies: ASPREE, ARRIVE, ASCEND, ACCEPT-D
HCV Screening? Who are the higher risk patients?
NOPE.
Unless higher risk:
Hx incarceration, blood products/organ transplant before 1992, recent immigrants, IVDU
AAA Screening?
Men 65-80 yo - one time abdo ultrasound
Women - NOPE
CFPC Preventive Health Checklist?
Learn it. CFP 2020. Get it off bit.ly/vitalfm-checklist
CFPC Preventive Health Checklist?
Learn it. CFP 2020. Get it off bit.ly/vitalfm-checklist
FALL in PM? How can we prevent the hip fractures?
Best question: How many falls in the last one year?
FALL: review active health status, screen for FALLS yearly
P: Review pain control
M: Medications?
Immigrants and Refugees Guidelines?
Check out Ottawa guidelines from CMAJ 2011 or CPS have good one: caringforkids.ca new to Canada
Immigrants & Refugee Canadian Practice Recommendations?
- Infectious Disease - OFFER testing and vaccines, INTERPRETER, Consider RISK LEVEL for country (ex. HIV, TB, HCV
- Chronic Disease
- Mental Health
- Women’s Health
Recommends for Interpreter?
- Not a family member
- Don’t pull someone from waiting room
- LOTS of access for interpreters!
- Don’t use google translate as not standard of care
How do we test for TB?
Intradermal (IGRA)-interferon gamma release assay
>95% Specificity for latent TB only
-Don’t use to dx ACTIVE TB
4 meds to tx TB?
Rifampin
Isoniazid
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4 meds to tx TB?
Rifampin
Isoniazid
Pyrazinamide
Ethambutol
Painless hematuria is
CANCER until proven otherwise
ALSO a sx. of schistosomias and consider this for
If fever and travel test for malaria. If asymptomatic?
asyx: DON’T Test
Test via: Thick & thin smear
Test for malaria antigen