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Antimicrobial Resistance Dashboard - British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) 2016

The Antimicrobial Resistance Dashboard is
Antimicrobial Resistance Dashboard ... cross table of bacterial ... species, antibiotics ... /views/AMRDash/Dashboard ... Antimicrobial #Antibiotics
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Clinical ... Switch to oral antibiotics ... Pathogens: • Aerobic Bacteria ... • Anaerobic Bacteria ... Lung #Abscess #pulmonary
Lung Abscess
Microbiology:
 • Polymicrobial 
 • Anaerobes (most common) 
Clinical: 
 • Indolent symptoms that evolve
most common) Clinical ... : • Empiric antibiotics ... Abscess #Diagnosis #Pulmonary ... #Clinical #CXR
In general, we expand antibiotics too soon in cellulitis, as clinical response (e.g. reduction in edema/erythema,
general, we expand antibiotics ... cellulitis, as clinical ... support switching antibiotics ... venous stasis or arterial
Hordeolum vs Chalazion

Hordeolum (Stye):
 • Location: Most commonly found at or near an eyelash follicle
 •
follicle • Cause: Bacterial ... Warm compresses, antibiotic ... eyedrops, surgery #Clinical
Clinical Classification of Pulmonary Hypertension

1. Pulmonary arterial hypertension from pulmonary vasculopathy
Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension
Heritable gene mutations
Clinical Classification ... of Pulmonary Hypertension ... Pulmonary arterial ... hypertension from pulmonary ... arterial hypertension
For my UME micro course, I made a figure that captures this terminology and lets learners
the spectrum of clinically ... important bacteria ... will represent antibiotics ... arrange all the clinically ... does not equal clinical
Causes of Erythema Nodosum
Common
 - Idiopathic (up to 55 percent)
 - Infections: streptococcal pharyngitis (28 to
to 10 percent): antibiotics ... immunodeficiency virus - Bacterial ... Differential #Diagnosis #Clinical
Blood Culture Collection Algorithm - Adult Patients with Suspected Systemic Infection 

Pawlowicz et al evidenced based
with suspected bacterial ... infections, whose clinical ... suspected source of bacterial ... obtained prior to antibiotic
Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH) and Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy
Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension
Definition: mean pulmonary-artery pressure > 25mmHg
Thromboembolic Pulmonary ... Thromboembolic Pulmonary ... 6 months after pulmonary ... Plexiform-lesion formation Clinical ... thromboembolic material