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Musculoskeletal Disease
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Most common microbes that cause osteomyelitis   staph aureus, (90% of acute peds cases) coagulase-negative staph  
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Less common microbes causing osteomyelitis   strep, enterococcus, e. coli, serratia sp, anaerobes  
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Rare microbes causing osteomyelitis   mycobacterium, dimorphic fungi, candida sp, asperigillus, mycoplasma, brucella, salmonella, actinomyces  
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Gram positive cocci   staph, strep, enterococcus  
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Gram negative cocci   neisseria (gonorrhoeae, meningitidis), moraxella, acinetobacter  
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Gram positive bacilli - Endospore formers   bacillus, clostridium  
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Gram positive bacilli - Non-endospore formers: regular shape/stain   Listeria, erysipelothrix  
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Gram positive bacilli - Non-endospore formers: Irregular shape/stain - acid fast   1. Non-acid fast - corynabacterium, ropionobacterium; 2. Actinomycetes - actinomyces, nocardia  
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Gram negative bacilli - aerobes   Bordetella, Brucella, Francisella, Pseudomonas  
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Gram negative bacilli - obligate anaerobes   Bacteroides  
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Gram negative bacilli - facultative anaerobes: lactose fermenting   Citrobacter, Enterobacter, Escherechia, Klebsiella  
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Gram negative bacilli - facultative anaerobes: non-lactose fermenting - oxidase negative   Salmonella, Shigella, Yersenia, Serretia, Proteus Morganella  
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Gram negative bacilli - facultative anaerobes: non-lactose fermenting - oxidase positive   Haemophilus, Pasteruella  
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Clinical presentation of osteomyelitis   localized pain, fever, tenderness to palpation over affected site; hematogenous spread; conitguous focus of infxn; draining sinus tract; X-ray bone erosion and subperiosteal bone deposition  
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Diagnostic approach for osteomyelitis   blood culture (ID the bug); MRI for sinus tract; stain/culture aspirate/biopsy; x-ray - after 1wk shows new periosteal bone, metaphaseal bone destruction; If there's diagnostic doubt order a bone scan  
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Managing acute osteomyelitis   bacterial microbials, surgical drainage if necessary  
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Managing chronic osteomyelitis   long term high dose antibiotics; surgical removal of sequestrum/necrotic tissue/bone abscess  
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Antimicrobial therapy in osteomyelitis   1. b-lactams and vancomycin; 2. cephalosporins, penicillinase-resistant penicillins  
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Osteomyelitis in contaminated open fx (3-25% of fx)   Staph and aerobic G- bacilli  
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Vertebral osteomyelitis, spondylodiskitis, epidural abscess   hematogenous spread; S. aureus and coag-neg Staph; M. tubercuolsis and Brucella (endemic); G- aerobic and Candida (IVDA, immunosupp, post-op)  
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Acute Hematogenous Osteomyelitis   long bones (tib/fib); S. aureus, Strep. pneumoniae, H. influenzae; kids, elderly, IVDA, catheters  
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