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Antibiotics for Intraabdominal Infection. 
Use your local antimicrobial susceptibility data for selecting the best empiric treatment!
Antibiotics for ... Use your local antimicrobial ... AAST 2021 global clinical ... #antimicrobials ... infectiousdiseases #management #pharmacology
Considerations for progression of disease while on antimicrobial therapy:
 - Source Control?
 - Wrong bug?
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- Wrong diagnosis ... Sara Dong @swinndong ... #antibiotics #checklist ... #Differential #Diagnosis ... #Management #Antibiotics
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... Management: • Antibiotics ... Clindamycin in case of PCN ... Switch to oral antibiotics
Lung Abscess
Microbiology:
 • Polymicrobial 
 • Anaerobes (most common) 
Clinical: 
 • Indolent symptoms that evolve
Lung Abscess Microbiology ... most common) Clinical ... : • Empiric antibiotics ... #Diagnosis #Pulmonary ... #Clinical #CXR
A 50 yo F with a history of poor dentition presents to the ED with fever
already seen her PCP ... of outpatient antibiotics ... Diagnosis: Cavitary ... consistent w/ lung abscess ... #Clinical #Radiology
CNS Infection in HIV / AIDS - Differential Diagnosis Framework

Principles of HIV-Associated CNS Opportunistic Infections:
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- Differential Diagnosis ... should be based on clinical ... with appropriate antimicrobial ... therapy • Antimicrobial ... tuberculomas, or abscesses
Spinal Epidural Abscess - Illness Script
Epidemiology:
 - Patients at risk for bacteremia: IVDU, dental abscess, HD
Spinal Epidural Abscess ... most common (63%) Clinical ... dysfunction paralysis Diagnosis ... Surgical drainage - Antibiotics ... #diagnosis #management
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 ... control (e.g. abscess ... ) alternative diagnosis
Drug-Induced Seizures - OTIS-CAMPBELL

O - Organophosphate, oral hypoglycemics, opioid
T - TCA, theophylline
I - Isoniazid, Insulin
S -
anticholinergics, amantadine, antibiotics ... /insecticides, PCP ... #Differential #Pharmacology ... #Diagnosis #OTISCAMPBELL
Intern Pocket Cards - Antibiogram and Susceptibilities
VRE - MRSA - GRAM POSITIVES - GRAM NEGATIVES -
metronidazole Antimicrobial ... (Use clinical data ... Confirm type of IV access ... Susceptibilities #antibiotics ... #management #pharmacology