03-10-2008, 12:39 PM
remember this question sin the morning?
most common organism for nosocomial pneumonia in a nursing home ward:
a.staph aureus
b.pneumococci
c.pseudomonas
d.klebsiella
e.e coli
well i have to go back to my neumology notes for step 2 ck (kaplan step 2 notes)
here the summary
1. mcc of neumonia in HIV...strep neumonia
2. mcc of neumonia in nursing home...strepneumonia
3. mcc of neumonia in cystic fibrosis...pseudomona4.mcc of hospital aquired or ventilator associaded neumonia is Gram negative bacilly like E coli another enterobacteriaceae or pseudomonas.
know the predispositons as follows that can change the bug
a. smokerrs, copd...haemophilus influenzae
b. young and healthy...mycolasma
c. older smokers, air conditioning systems, infecter water sources...legionella
d. HIV positive with cd4 less than 200 an not on prophilaxis...pneumocystic
e. exposure to animales...coxiella
f. alcoholics...klebsiell
g. after viral syndromes or viral bronchitis especilly infoluenza ( over-infection) staphylococus auresu
most common organism for nosocomial pneumonia in a nursing home ward:
a.staph aureus
b.pneumococci
c.pseudomonas
d.klebsiella
e.e coli
well i have to go back to my neumology notes for step 2 ck (kaplan step 2 notes)
here the summary
1. mcc of neumonia in HIV...strep neumonia
2. mcc of neumonia in nursing home...strepneumonia
3. mcc of neumonia in cystic fibrosis...pseudomona4.mcc of hospital aquired or ventilator associaded neumonia is Gram negative bacilly like E coli another enterobacteriaceae or pseudomonas.
know the predispositons as follows that can change the bug
a. smokerrs, copd...haemophilus influenzae
b. young and healthy...mycolasma
c. older smokers, air conditioning systems, infecter water sources...legionella
d. HIV positive with cd4 less than 200 an not on prophilaxis...pneumocystic
e. exposure to animales...coxiella
f. alcoholics...klebsiell
g. after viral syndromes or viral bronchitis especilly infoluenza ( over-infection) staphylococus auresu