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Skin and Soft Tissue Infections Flashcards

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What is impetigo?

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Superficial skin infection

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Describe the character of impetigo skin lesions?

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  • Multiple vesicular lesions on erythematous base
  • Golden crus highly suggestive of this diagnosis
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What is impetigo most and least commonly due to?

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Most commonly due to staph aureus, least commonly due to strep pyogenes

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What infection is this?

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Impetigo

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Who does impetigo commonly infect?

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Commonly affects children, is highly infectious

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What are some risk factors for impetigo?

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  • Skin abrasions
  • Minor trauma
  • Burns
  • Poor hygiene
  • Insect bites
  • Chickenpox
  • Eczema
  • Atopic dermatitis
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What is the treatment of impetigo?

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  • Small area
    • Topical antibiotics alone
  • Large area
    • Topical treatment and oral antibiotics (such as flucloxacillin)
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What is erysipelas?

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Infection of the upper dermis

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What is the presentation of erysipelas?

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  • Painful, red area (no central clearing)
  • Associated fever
  • Regional lymphadenopathy and lymphangitis
  • Typically has distinct elevated borders
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What is erysipelas most commonly due to?

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Most commonly due to strep pyogenes

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What infection is this?

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Erysipelas

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Where does erysipelas mostly affect?

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Mostly affects lower limbs, then face

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What is cellulitis?

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Diffuse skin infection involving deep dermis and subcutaneous fat

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What is the presentation of cellulitis?

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  • Spreading erythematous area with no distinct borders
  • Fever is common
  • Possible source of bacteraemia
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What are the most likely organisms that cause cellulitis?

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Most likely organisms are strep pyogenes and staph aureus

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What infection is this?

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Cellulitis

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What are risk factors for cellulitis?

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  • Diabetes
  • Tinea pedis
  • Lymphoedema
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What is the treatment for erysipelas?

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  • Combination of anti-staph and anti-strep antibiotics
  • In extensive disease, admission for IV antibiotics
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What is the treatment of cellulitis?

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  • Combination of anti-staph and anti-strep antibiotics
  • In extensive disease, admission for IV antibiotics
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What are examples of hair associated infections?

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  • Folliculitis
  • Furunculosis
  • Carbuncles
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What is folliculitis?

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Circumscribed, pustular infection of a hair follicle

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Describe the character of folluculitis lesions?

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  • Small red papules
  • Up to 5mm in diameter
  • Central area of purulence that may rupture and drain
  • Typically found on head, back, bum and extremities
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What infection is this?

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Folliculitis

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What is the most common organism causing folliculitis?

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Staph aureus

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What is the treatment for folliculitis?

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  • No treatment or topical antibiotics
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What is furunculosis?

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Single hair follicle associated inflammatory nodule extending into dermis and subcutaneous tissue

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What is furunculosis commonly refered to as?

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Boils

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Describe the character of furunculosis lesions?

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  • Usually affects moist, hairy, friction prone areas of body
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What infection is this?

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Furunculosis

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What organism most commonly causes furunculosis?

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Staph aureus

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What are risk factors for furunculosis?

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  • Obesity
  • Diabetes
  • Atopic dermatitis
  • CKD
  • Corticosteroid use
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Are systemic symptoms with furunculosis common?

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  • Systemic symptoms uncommon
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What is the treatment of furunculosis?

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  • No treatment or topical antibiotics
  • If not improving oral antibiotics
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What is carbuncle?

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Occurs when infection extends to involve multiple furuncles

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Describe the character of carbuncle lesions?

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  • Often located back of neck, posterior trunk or thigh
  • Multiseptated abscesses
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Are systemic symptoms common with carbuncle?

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  • Systemic symptoms common
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37
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What infection is this?

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Carbuncle

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38
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What is the treatment for carbuncle?

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  • Surgery
  • IV antibiotics
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39
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Necrotising fasculitis is a…

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Infectious disease emergency

40
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What are risk factors for necrotising fasculitis?

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  • Diabetes
  • Surgery
  • Trauma
  • Peripheral vascular disease
  • Skin popping
41
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What are the different types of necrotising fasculitis?

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  • Type 1
    • Refers to mixed aerobic and anaerobic infection
    • Such as diabetic foot infection, or Fournier’s gangrene
    • Organisms includes
      • Streptococci
      • Staphylococci
      • Enterococci
      • Gram negative bacilli
      • Clostridium
  • Type 2
    • Is monomicrobial
    • Normally associated with strep pyogenes
42
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What organisms cause type 1 necrotising fascultiis?

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  • Streptococci
  • Staphylococci
  • Enterococci
  • Gram negative bacilli
  • Clostridium
43
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What organism is type 2 necrotising fasculitis typically associated with?

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Strep pyogenes

44
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What is the presentation of necrotising fasculitis?

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  • Rapid onset
  • Sequential development of erythema, extensive oedema and severe paion
  • Haemorrhagic bullae, skin necrosis and crepitus may develop
  • Systemic features
    • Fever
    • Hypotension
    • Tachycardia
    • Delerium
    • Multiorgan failure
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What investigations are done for necrotising fasculitis?

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  • Surgical review is mandatory
  • Imaging may help but could delay treatment
46
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What is the treatment for necrotising fasculitis?

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  • Antibiotics should be broad spectrum
    • Flucloxacillin
    • Gentamicin
    • Clindamycin
47
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What is pyomyositis?

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Purulent infection deep within striated muscle

48
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What is the presentation of pyomyositis?

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  • Often manifests as abscess
  • Common sites
    • Thigh
    • Calf
    • Arms
    • Gluteal region
    • Chest wall
    • Psoas muscle
  • Fever and pain
  • If untreated can lead to septic shock and death
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What are risk factors for pyomyositis?

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  • Diabetes mellitus
  • HIV/immunocompromised
  • Intravenous drug use
  • Rheumatological diseases
  • Malignancy
  • Liver cirrhosis
50
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What organism is the most common cause of pyomyositis?

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Staph aureus

51
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What investigations should be doen for pyomyositis?

52
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What is the treatment for pyomyositis?

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  • Drain with antibiotic cover depending on gram stain and culture results
53
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What are bursae?

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Small sac-like cavities that contain fluid and are lined by synovial membrane

54
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Where are bursae located?

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Located subcutaneously or between bony prominences or tendons

55
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What are risk factors for septic bursitis?

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  • Infection often from adjacent skin infection
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Alcoholism
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Intravenous drug abuse
  • Immunosuppression
  • Renal insufficiency
56
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What infection is this?

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Septic bursitis

57
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What is the presentation of septic bursitis?

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  • Peribursal cellulitis, welling and warmth
  • Fever and pain on movement
58
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Septic bursitis is diagnosed by what?

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Diagnosis based on aspiration of fluid

59
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What organism is the most common cause of septic bursitis?

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Most common cause is staph aureus, rarer organisms include:

  • Gram negatives
  • Mycobacteria
  • Brucella
60
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What is infectious tenosynovitis?

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Infection of the synovial sheets that surround tendons

61
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Where does infectious tenosynovitis most commonly affect?

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Most commonly affects flexor muscle and associated tendons of the hand

62
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What is the most common cause of infectious tenosynovitis?

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Most common cause is staph aureus and streptococci, chronic infections occur due to mycobacteria and fungi

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What is the presentation of infectious tenosynovitis?

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  • Erythematous fusiform swelling of finger
  • Hand held in semiflexed position
  • Tenderness over the length of the tendon sheet with pain on extension of finger
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What is the treatment of infectious tenosynovitis?

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  • Empiric antibiotics
  • Hand surgeon to review
65
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What are toxin mediated syndromes often due to?

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Often due to super antigens such as group of pyrogenic exotoxins

66
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Describe the pathophysiology of toxin mediated syndromes?

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  • Do not activate immune system via normal contact between APC and T cells
  • Superantigens bypass this and attach directly to T cell receptors activating them
  • Massive bursts of cytokines released
  • Leads to endothelial leakage, haemodynamic shock, multiorgan failure and maybe death
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What are toxin mediated syndromes mostly due to?

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  • Some strains of staph aureus
    • TSST1
    • ETA and ETB
  • Some strains of streptococcus pyogenes
    • TSST1
68
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What toxins can staph aureus release that causes toxin mediated syndromes?

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  • TSST1
  • ETA and ETB
69
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What toxin can strep pyogenes release that causes toxin mediated syndromes?

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What is the diagnostic criteria for staph TSS?

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  • Fever
  • Hypotension
  • Diffuse macular rash
  • Three of following organs involved
    • Liver, blood, renal, GI, CNS, muscular
  • Isolation of staph aureus from mucosal or normally sterile sites
  • Production of TSST1 by isolate
  • Development of antibody to toxin
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What does TSS stand for?

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Toxin shock syndrome

72
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Does strap or strep TSS have a higher mortality rate?

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Strep (50% vs 5%)

73
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What is the treatment for toxin shock syndrome?

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  • Remove offending agent (ex tampon)
  • Intravenous fluids
  • Inotropes
  • Antibiotics
  • Intravenous immunoglobulins
74
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What often causes toxin shock syndrome?

75
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What is staph scaled skin syndrome?

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Infection due to particular strain of staph aureus producing the exfoliative toxin A or B

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What is the presentation of staph scaled skin syndrome?

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  • Widespread bullae and skin exfoliation
  • Usually occurs in children but rarely in adults
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hat is the treatment of staph scaled skin syndrome?

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  • IV fluids and antimicrobials
78
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What infection is this?

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Staph scaled skin syndrome

79
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What is the Penton-Valentine Leucocodin (PVL) toxin?

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Is a gamma haemolysin

Can be transferred from one strain of staph to another including MRSA

80
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Describe the character os lesions due to PVL toxin?

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  • Recurrent boils
81
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What is the treatment of PVL toxin?

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  • Antibiotics to reduce toxin production
82
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What can PVL toxin cause?

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Can cause SSTI (skin and soft tissue infection) and haemorrhagic pneumonia

83
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What does SSTI stand for?

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Skin and soft tissue infection

84
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Where do IV catheter associated infections originate?

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Nosocomial (originates in hospital) infection

85
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Desribe the pathogenesis of IV catheter associated infections?

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  • Starts as local SST inflammation
  • Progresses to cellulitis and even tissue necrosis
86
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What are risk factors for IV catheter associated infections?

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  • Continuous infusion >24 hours
  • Cannula in situ >72 hours
  • Cannula in lower limb
  • Patients with neurological/neurosurgical problems
87
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What organism most commonly causes IV catheter associated infections?

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Most common organism is staph aureus (MSSA and MRSA), which commonly forms a biofilm which then spills into bloodstream

88
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How are IV catheter associated infections diagnosed?

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  • Made clinically or by positive blood cultures
89
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What is the treatment for IV catheter associated infections?

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  • Remove cannula
  • Express any pus from the thrombophlebitis
  • Antibiotics for 14 days
  • Echocardiogram
90
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What are ways to prevent IV catheter associated infections?

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  • Do not leave unused cannula
  • Do not insert cannulae unless you are using them
  • Change cannulae every 72 hours
  • Monitor for thrombophlebitis
  • Use aseptic technique when inserting cannulae
91
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What are the different classification of surgical wounds?

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  • Class 1
    • Clean wound (respiratory, alimentary, genital or infected urinary systems not entered)
  • Class 2
    • Clean-contaminated wound (above tracts entered but no unusual contamination)
  • Class 3
    • Contaminated wound (Open, fresh accidental wounds or gross spillage from the gastrointestinal tract)
  • Class 4
    • Infected wound (existing clinical infection, infection present before the operation)
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What are some examples of surgical site infection causative organisms?

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  • Staph aureus (incl MSSA and MRSA)
  • Coagulase negative Staphylococci
  • Enterococcus
  • Escherichia coli
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • Enterobacter
  • Streptococci
  • Fungi
  • Anaerobes
93
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What are some risk factors for surgical site infections?

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  • Patient associated
    • Diabetes
    • Smoking
    • Obesity
    • Malnutrition
    • Concurrent steroid use
    • Colonisation with Staph aureus
  • Procedural factors
    • Shaving of site the night prior to procedure
    • Improper preoperative skin preparation
    • Improper antimicrobial prophylaxis
    • Break in sterile technique
    • Inadequate theatre ventilation
    • Perioperative hypoxia
94
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How are surgical site infections diagnosed?

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  • Send pus/infection tissue for culture
  • Aim for deep structures with swabs not superficial
95
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What is the treatment for surgical site infections?

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  • Antibiotics to target likely organisms

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