Question | Answer |
A patient recieving an antibiotic before getting extensive dental work is getting what type of therapy? | Prophylactic |
A patient who recieves antibiotics after stepping on a rusty nail is getting what therapy? | Empiric |
What is the best drug for Lyme disease? | Doxycycline |
What is an example of an emerging infections? | MRSA |
Superinfection? | Yeast |
Milk decreases efficacy of what drugs? | Tetracyclines |
Antacids, iron, and zinc interact with what drugs? | Fluroquinoles |
What drug can cause kernicterun in neonates? | Sulfonamides |
What drugs cannot be given to children because it affects their teeth? | Tetracyclines |
Drugs that affect child bone growth? | Fluroquinoles |
Two drugs that frequently cause anaphlactic reactions? | Penicillins and sulfonamides |
Diabetic should look out for what imbalance when taking sulfonamides? | Hypoglycemia |
What is the best drug for UTI because of its high concentration in the kidneys? | Sulfonamides |
Bacteriostatic sulfonamides inhibit the growth of what three things? | folic acid, PABA,and microbes |
What drug turns your pee orange? | Pyridium |
What drugs are great for stomach ulcers? | Biaxin and Bactrium |
What sulfonamides are great for bladder infections? | Bactrium and Septra |
What is the best Penicillin for a patient with and abscess? | Augmentin |
What penicillin drug can kill pseudomonas? | Ticar |
Penicillin antibiotic therapy can result in what imbalances? | Hyperkalemia and Hypernatremia |
Keflex, Biocef, and Clindomycin are goof for what conditions? | skin |
Good antibiotic for meningitis? | Rocephin |
what antibiotics have the broadest antibacterial actions? | Carbapenems |
Patient with intraabdominal infections along with some bone and joint bacteria can be treated with what carbapenem? | Primaxin IV |
What antibiotics are likely to be used for STDs and U and L respiratory infections and lyme disease, mycoplasam and corynebacterium infections? | Macroclides and Ketolides |
What ketolide is good for multidrug resistant strains of bacteria? | Ketex |
What tetracyclines are good for Lyme disease or any tick fever or reckettsia or mycoplasm organisms? | Doxycline and Vibramycin |
What fluroquinolone is good for anthrax? | Cipro iv po |
What anibiotic is good for leprosy and can cause blue discoloration of the skin? | Dapsone po |
Drug for VRE? | Zyvox (Linezolid) |
Drug for infections caused by VRE? | Synercid |
Antibiotic of choice for MRSA? | Vancomycin |
Good for UTIs after Urological procedures? | Macrodantin (nitrofuratoin) and Furadantin |
Good for Cellulitis? | Cubicin (daptomycin) |
drug good for yeast infections or pinworms? | Flagyl (metronizazole) |
Used against malaria | Malarone |
should be kept covered from sunlight | Dapsone |
Is toxic if greater than 50mcg/ml | Vancomycin |
should be given with food and milk to decrease GI problems | Nitrofuratoin (Macrodantin) |
What drug will foam if you shake it? | Synercid |
What drug would you check for hearing and renal funcions and red man syndrome? | Vancomycin |
what drug can cause dizziness, tingling, sensory motor, bowel antabuse reaction with alcohol? | Flagyl |
What drug tends to run blood glucose levels high? | Fluroquinolones-cipro |
Peak level of vancomycin | 18-50mcg/ml |
trough level of vancomycin | 5-15mcg/ml |
Always give antibiotics | piggyback |
the two most prescribed fluroquinolones? | Cipro and Levaquin |
Patient on warfarin or phenytoin should be careful if on what antibiotic group? | Sulfonamides |
Patient with G6PD deficiency cannot take what three types of antibiotics? | Dapsone, sulfonamides, and nitrofuratoin (macrodantin) |
great for respiratory and UTIs? | fluroquinolones |
Clot buster (powder) with 50/50 risk of death | TenKase |