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NR566 MIDTERM EXAM
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PHARMACOLOGY FOR CARE OF
FAMILY| A GRADE
Community Acquired Pneumonia - Common Pathogens - ANSWER
✔✔-S. pneumoniae
-Mycoplasma spp.
-H. influenzae
-Staphylococcus aureus
,Community Acquired Pneumonia - 1st line treatment for previously
healthy adults and what to give if 1st drug didn't work? - ANSWER
✔✔1st line: Amoxicillin, doxycycline and macrolide (Azithromycin)
Second choice: Levaquin (Fluroquinolones)
Treatment for M. Pneumoniae in pediatric patients? - ANSWER
✔✔Macrolides: Azithromycin, Erythromycin, Clarithromycin
Treatment of community acquired pneumonia in pregnancy -
ANSWER ✔✔Amoxicillin, cephalosporins, or erythromycin
If someone has been treated w/ an antibiotic in the previous 90 days of
contracting CAP, a quinolone would be prudent choice to prescribe. Be
familiar with drug examples w/n the antibiotic class - ANSWER
✔✔"floxacin"
Genifloxacin
Ciprofloxacin
Treatment of chlamydial pneumonia in an infant? - ANSWER
✔✔Erythromycin 12.5 mg/kg PO QID x 14 days
When to use a broad-spectrum anitbiotic? - ANSWER ✔✔-before
cultures result
, -critically ill patient
-empiric therapy
-pathogen is unknown or multiple types of bacteria suspected
-Gram + cocci and Gram - Bacilli
Narrow-spectrum antibiotics - ANSWER ✔✔-active against only a few
species of microogranisms
-used when pathogen is known
-reduces risk of disruption of normal flora and development of antibiotic
resistance
-preferred when possible
-Gram + cocci, Gram - bacilli, gram - aerobes, mycobacterium TB
Empiric antibiotics - What are they? - ANSWER ✔✔Broad spectrum
antibiotics
-Ciprofloxacin, timethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, Amoxicillin
When to prescribed empiric antibiotics - ANSWER ✔✔-patient has
severe infection
-before test results are available
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