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Daptomycin  - Antibiotics Class Overview

Mechanism: Lipopeptide antibiotic – forms transmembrane channels and depolarizes cells.
Class Overview ... Rapidly cidal drug ... No gram negative ... cidal nature) #Pharmacology ... #Overview #Daptomycin
Vancomycin and Dalbavancin (lipoglycopeptide antibiotics) - Antibiotics Class Overview

Mechanism: Glycopeptide -  inhibits cell wall synthesis
Class Overview ... No gram negative ... Drug of choice for ... #Pharmacology #Antibiotics ... #Review #Overview
Antifungal Echinocandins  - Antibiotics Class Overview

Mechanism: Inhibit glucan synthesis in fungal cell wall by blocking
Echinocandins - Antibiotics ... Class Overview ... vs Candida -> Drug ... usually works clinically ... Anidulafungin #Pharmacology
For my UME micro course, I made a figure that captures this terminology and lets learners
the spectrum of clinically ... contrast important drug ... common beta lactam drugs ... #antibiogram #pharmacology ... management #spectrum #table
Tetracyclines – Doxycycline, Tetracycline, Minocycline - Antibiotics Class Overview

- 30S Inhibitors (PO and IV)
Spectrum: Fairly broad
Minocycline - Antibiotics ... Class Overview ... coverage, some gram negative ... Drug of choice for ... #Pharmacology #Antibiotics
Sulfonamides - Antibiotics Class Overview

BACTRIM/SEPTRA (TMP/SMX) - inhibit sequential steps in Folate synthesis --> bacteriostatic

Spectrum: Wide
Sulfonamides - Antibiotics ... Class Overview ... and most Gram negatives ... including PCP PNA (drug ... #Pharmacology #Antibiotics
Intern Pocket Cards - Antibiogram and Susceptibilities
VRE - MRSA - GRAM POSITIVES - GRAM NEGATIVES -
POSITIVES - GRAM NEGATIVES ... → What drug? ... (Use clinical data ... Susceptibilities #antibiotics ... #management #pharmacology
It is important to recognize Acute Decompensated Heart Failure (ADHF) as more than just simply a
with presence of pulmonary ... have achieved negative ... #differential #algorithm ... cardiology #treatment #table ... #pharmacology
Chloramphenicol - Antibiotics Class Overview

– 50S ribosomal inhibitor.   IV or PO (but PO form
Chloramphenicol - Antibiotics ... Class Overview ... E.faecium/VRE); Gram negatives ... several weeks after drug ... #Pharmacology #Antibiotics
Overview of antifungal agents benefits, weaknesses, and adverse effects in the treatment of Coccidioidomycosis.
Fluconazole - Low
Overview of antifungal ... , hypokalemia, negative ... • Therapeutic drug ... tolerable • Limited clinical ... #pharmacology