NR 566 MIDTERM EXAM (2 LATEST VERSIONS
2024-2025) / NR566 MIDTERM EXAM REVIEW
/LATEST ADVANCED PHARMACOLOGY FOR
CARE OF FAMILY|AGRADE
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-S. pneumoniae
Community Acquired
-Mycoplasma spp.
Pneumonia - Common
-H. influenzae
Pathogens
-Staphylococcus aureus
Community Acquired 1st line: Amoxicillin, doxycycline and macrolide
Pneumonia - 1st line (Azithromycin)
treatment for previously Second choice: Levaquin (Fluroquinolones)
healthy adults and what to
give if 1st drug didn't
work?
Treatment for M. Macrolides: Azithromycin, Erythromycin,
Pneumoniae in pediatric Clarithromycin
patients?
Treatment of community Amoxicillin, cephalosporins, or erythromycin
acquired pneumonia in
pregnancy
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If someone has been "floxacin"
treated w/ an antibiotic in Genifloxacin
the previous 90 days of Ciprofloxacin
contracting CAP, a
quinolone would be
prudent choice to
prescribe. Be familiar with
drug examples w/n the
antibiotic class
Treatment of chlamydial Erythromycin 12.5 mg/kg PO QID x 14 days
pneumonia in an infant?
-before cultures result
-critically ill patient
When to use a broad- -empiric therapy
spectrum anitbiotic? -pathogen is unknown or multiple types of bacteria
suspected
-Gram + cocci and Gram - Bacilli
-active against only a few species of microogranisms
-used when pathogen is known
-reduces risk of disruption of normal flora and
Narrow-spectrum
development of antibiotic resistance
antibiotics
-preferred when possible
-Gram + cocci, Gram - bacilli, gram - aerobes,
mycobacterium TB
Broad spectrum antibiotics
Empiric antibiotics - What
-Ciprofloxacin, timethoprim/sulfamethoxazole,
are they?
Amoxicillin
-patient has severe infection
When to prescribed -before test results are available
empiric antibiotics -based on clinical evaluation and knowledge of
microbes that are most likely causing the infection
Stop prior antibiotic and start Vancomycin or
C. Diff associated diarrhea
Fidaxomicin or Metronidazole
- how to treat?
Chart in Book
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