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Antibiotics for Intraabdominal Infection. 
Use your local antimicrobial susceptibility data for selecting the best empiric treatment!
Antibiotics for ... Intraabdominal Infection ... AAST 2021 global clinical ... intra-abdominal infections ... infectiousdiseases #management #pharmacology
IDSA Suggested Empiric Antibiotic Regimens Based on Clinical Severity for Diabetic Foot Infections
Mild (usually treated with
Suggested Empiric Antibiotic ... Regimens Based on Clinical ... Diabetic Foot Infections ... #empiric #antibiotics ... #pharmacology #
Modified penicillin binding proteins as mechanism of resistance to antibiotics.
Penicillin Binding Proteins (Transpeptidases) cross link peptidoglycan
resistance to antibiotics ... - Beta-lactam antibiotics ... - Giving more antibiotic ... amox for an ear infection ... Proteins #AMR #PBP #pharmacology
Coverage of common antibiotics used in the hospital

For empiric coverage, first define the type of infection,
Coverage of common antibiotics ... define the type of infection ... prior resistance. e.g ... infectiousdisease #antibiotics ... #antibiogram #pharmacology
Endocarditis checklist
Initial evaluation
 • Peripheral blood cultures (three sets at three different sites)
 • Additional culture
for metastatic infection ... course • Adjust antibiotics ... block (+/- daily EKG ... metastatic foci of infection ... Internet Book of Critical
Antifungal Echinocandins  - Antibiotics Class Overview

Mechanism: Inhibit glucan synthesis in fungal cell wall by blocking
Echinocandins - Antibiotics ... severe Candida infections ... usually works clinically ... Anidulafungin #Pharmacology ... #Antibiotics #Review
Causes of Erythema Nodosum
Common
 - Idiopathic (up to 55 percent)
 - Infections: streptococcal pharyngitis (28 to
55 percent) - Infections ... to 10 percent): antibiotics ... (e.g., sulfonamides ... 1 percent) Infections ... Differential #Diagnosis #Clinical
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
polymicrobial infection ... Lung Abscess - Clinical ... Management: • Antibiotics ... Switch to oral antibiotics ... • Vasculitis (e.g
BEE Syndromes - Non-inflammatory Causes

Immune-mediated conditions affecting the Brain, Eye, and Ear

Visual or auditory symptoms in
• Enteroviral infections ... • Herpes virus infections ... skull neoplasms (e.g ... neuropathy (LHON) plus MRI ... lesions and clinical
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
transplantation CLINICAL ... Electrodiagnostic studies (Ex EMG ... demyelinating or axonal • MRI ... - Spinal MRI may ... specific therapy, the clinician