Infectious disease conditions flashcards
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Twenty flashcards on common infections: key symptoms, signs, tests and first treatment.
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- Sepsis: key first-hour actions?
- Lactate, blood cultures, broad antibiotics, 30 mL/kg crystalloid if hypotensive or lactate 4 or higher.
- Expanding red target rash after a tick bite?
- Erythema migrans of Lyme disease.
- Early Lyme disease treatment in adults?
- Doxycycline.
- Fever, headache and rash starting on wrists and ankles after a tick bite?
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever; give doxycycline.
- Painless genital ulcer with firm edges?
- Chancre of primary syphilis.
- Treatment of primary syphilis?
- Benzathine penicillin G 2.4 million units IM once.
- Current treatment for uncomplicated gonorrhea?
- Ceftriaxone 500 mg IM once.
- Treatment of choice for chlamydia?
- Doxycycline 100 mg twice daily for 7 days.
- Grouped painful vesicles on the genitals?
- Genital herpes; treat with valacyclovir or acyclovir.
- Recommended HIV screening test?
- Fourth-generation HIV-1/2 antigen/antibody test.
- CD4 level to start Pneumocystis prophylaxis?
- Below 200 cells/microL; give TMP-SMX.
- Diarrhea after recent antibiotics: test?
- C. difficile toxin or PCR test.
- First-line treatment of C. difficile infection?
- Oral fidaxomicin or oral vancomycin.
- Teen with fever, sore throat, posterior nodes and big spleen?
- Infectious mononucleosis (EBV).
- Mononucleosis: rash after which antibiotic?
- Amoxicillin or ampicillin.
- Cough, coryza, conjunctivitis, then rash and Koplik spots?
- Measles.
- Cyclic fever after travel to Africa: test?
- Thick and thin blood smears for malaria.
- Bite from a possibly rabid animal in an unvaccinated patient?
- Wash the wound, give rabies immune globulin and the vaccine series.
- Child with night-time anal itching and positive tape test?
- Pinworms; treat with albendazole or pyrantel pamoate.
- Descending flaccid paralysis after home-canned food?
- Botulism; give antitoxin.